Starring: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Jacqueline Abrahams, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of the city, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into the woods. A desperate man escapes from the hotel to the woods where the loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner

Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown.

Julia Bloch (Editor)
Julia Bloch is an editor based in New York who’s known for her work on Green Room (2015), The Wall (2017), Woodshock (2017), and Blue Ruin (2013).

Before Green Room, we’ll be screening Mary Dauterman’s short Wakey, Wakey (4 min)
Blood n’ guts, the deep blue sea, tooth decay, and her lazy (but weirdly menacing?) boyfriend add up to a really rough night of sleep for Alex. Which results in disaster. And… more blood.

Lindsey Nadolski (Editor)
Lindsey Nadolski has cut commercial projects as well as narrative shorts and renowned music videos for Tune Yards, Sleigh Bells, Chromeo, and more. Her work has been recognized by SXSW, TIFF, Vimeo Staff Picks, Rolling Stone, Vice, Pitchfork, and LA Film Festival.

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee

Darkly humorous, quasi musical, satirical, and controversial upon its release over four decades ago, Stanley Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel continues to retain its power. Set in a dystopic England in the not-so-distant future, we’re shown a society where the line between good versus bad is, at best, blurry. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high and embarking on “a little of the old ultraviolence” until, one day, he’s jailed for murder. While in prison, Alex is subjected to intense governmental behavior modification that turn him from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen. His eventual return to society sees how this therapy doesn’t really solve the rampant crime problem.

The FORCE AWAKENS at Nitehawk!

Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order. When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi Knights.

May the force be with you!

The Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, opens Oscar weekend at Nitehawk!

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

Nitehawk and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) present a special screening of BLUE VINYL: THE WORLD’S FIRST TOXIC COMEDY!

Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present the Brooklyn Premiere of CREATIVE CONTROL with Magnolia Pictures. Q&A with writer/director Benjamin Dickinson and cast!

The setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who’ve inherited them. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign, featuring musician/comedian Reggie Watts, for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette, he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie  – so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives. 

Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.

This baseball season, Nitehawk Cinema and BK Hot Dog Company play ball with our MAJOR LEAGUE FILM FEAST!

A former exotic dancer decides to move towards warmer climates after inheriting the Cleveland Indians when her old, rich husband passes away on their honeymoon. The only problem is that her lease won’t let her out unless there’s poor attendance to the baseball games so she concocts a brilliant plan to make the already losing team even worse so that she can move to Miami. But of course her plan turns sour when the supposed losers she brought on start on a winning streak! Major League is a good misfit-to-glory baseball story with a whole lot laughed along the way. When these three oddballs try to play hardball, the result is totally screwball!

As always with our Film Feasts, each dish will be served at the moment its inspirational scene comes on the screen!

RACHEL “CROSS HIM OFF” PHELPS
pepperoni dog, mozzarella, puff pastry, parmesan, arrabiata sauce
Drink pairing – The Cuyahoga – ?ubrówka Bison Grass Vodka, sparkling cider

PEDRO “EL CONQUISTADOR” CERRANO
pork dog, melted gruyere, dijon, ham & pickle relish, toasted ciabatta
Drink Pairing – Jobu’s Rum – serrano pepper infused Havana Club Rum, fresh lime, fresh grapefruit, Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

JAKE “LEAGUE MINIMUM” TAYLOR
gyro dog, tzatziki, shredded romaine, diced tomatoes, warm pita
Drink Pairing – Beer Will Be Fine – Hoppin’ Frog Brewery (Akron, OH), Hoppin’ to Heaven IPA

LOU “MUD HEN” BROWN
Buffalo chicken dog, bleu cheese dressing, carrot & celery slaw, Martin’s potato roll
Drink Pairing – ‘Clubber’ Clu Haywood – Bronx Brewery Rye Pale Ale

WILD THING
caramel corn, mixed nuts, soft serve ice cream, brownie bites
Drink Pairing – I Think I Love You – Wild Turkey Bourbon, ancho chile liqueur, house-made hot cocoa, vanilla bean marshmallow

Spend some time with THE HATEFUL 8 in the place no one visits without a damn good reason!

Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle. Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers

Controversial upon its release and now a cult favorite, Ginger Snaps is uses the monthly werewolf turn and cravings to be analogous with the strange horror of becoming a woman. Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald and her nearly-sixteen-year-old sister Ginger are both best friends and outcasts. Obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever, they loathe their mind-numbing existence in the suburbs of Bailey Downs. One night the two girls are heading through the woods when Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature and while her wounds heal, something about her is not quite right.