Come spend a romantic brunch with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day…Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents THE ARTIST with a live score by Reel Orchestrette!
Silent movie stars, talkie pictures, two lovers, and one cute dog make up the Best Picture Academy Award Winner, The Artist. In the 1920s, actor George Valentin is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans. While working on his latest film, George finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller and, what’s more, it seems Peppy feels the same way. But George is reluctant to cheat on his wife with the beautiful young actress. The growing popularity of sound in movies further separates the potential lovers, as George’s career begins to fade while Peppy’s star rises.
Reel Orchestrette (Bradford Reed & Geoff Gersh) is dedicated to the art of live musical accompaniment to silent films. Reed & Gersh have been collaborating together for almost 20 years, they formed Reel Orchestrette in 2012.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA starts the new year off with a GREASE sing-a-long and live score by El Chico Blanco!
Warm up those vocal cords, a Grease sing-a-long is the one that you want!
Grease is a musical about teens in love in the 50’s! It’s California, 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don’t know is that they both now attend Rydell High. What happens next? Singing and dancing, of course! So go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny (John Travolta), and a rockin’ & rollin’ all-star cast. But this time, revisit by indulging in the fact you know every, single word to the songs and SING-A-LONG to a live band!
About El Chico Blanco: Instrumental Rock + Metal, is a band of a different color. Keys (Steve Blanco), Guitar (Geoff Gersh), & Drums (Anthony ‘Chico’ Riscica) make for an interesting sound in the heaviest of metal jams or a free-form improvisation. Combining elements of Rock, Metal, Ambient, Electro, Funk, & Improv, the group stays on course towards a steady stream of music, no matter the size of the room or venue.
Comedian Kevin Maher visits the far-reaches of the galaxy, where life is cheap and the special effects are cheaper. This 2-hour cosmic adventure features multi-media presentations celebrating the sub-genre. With co-hosts Alex Robinson & Pete the Retailer (from the STAR WARS MINUTE podcast.) Expect lots of laser blasts, obnoxious robots, galactic melodrama and STAR WARS rip-offs.
Plus Special Guests:
Stuart Wellington (The Flophouse podcast)
Jenn Northington (Riot New Media)
Crystal Beth (MTV, StarWarsMinute)
M. Sweeney Lawless (Euphobia comedy troupe)
Chris Radtke (Geek.com)
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR series presents a special one nite screening of DIXIELAND, featuring a Q&A after the screening with director Hank Bedford, moderated by Bennett Miller.
Dixieland is an intoxicating portrait of life and love on the margins. Fresh out of prison, Kermit (Zylka), a mostly good kid mixed up with local drug dealers, returns home to his rural Mississippi trailer park. As he struggles to keep his nose clean, he falls for Rachel (Keough), his sultry neighbor who’s turned to dancing in a club to support her sick mother. Determined to overcome their inauspicious circumstances, the star-crossed lovers make a desperate, last-ditch effort to escape their dead-end town—but soon find themselves ensnared in a cycle of crime.
Starring: Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Chris Tucker, Michael Bowen, Michael Keaton
In Tarantino’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel Rum Punch, we get the battle of the wits in Jackie Brown where a flight attendant, an arms dealer, an FBI agent, a detective, a bail bondsman, and a beach bunny are all out for that bag of half a million dollars. Things kick off when flight attendant Jackie Brown gets busted from smuggling money for her boss and is faced with a decision that will either set her free or end her life. Roger Ebert said in his review that it was, “a new film in a new style, and it evokes the particular magic of Elmore Leonard–who elevates the crime novel to a form of sociological comedy.” That, plus the magic of Pam Grier, Robert Forster, and Tarantino muse Samuel L. Jackson, pretty much define this Pulp Fiction follow up.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino’s first directorial feature transformed him into one of the most influential directors of the 1990s and beyond. Jumping back-and-forth in time to show the before and after of a botched jewelry store robbery, Reservoir Dogs was immediately critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity. The now iconic Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, and Mr. Pink were hired strangers tasked to pull off the perfect crime but after the simple robbery goes bloody ambush, they release one of them is a police informer. But which one?
Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1995 Kung Fu film ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II. A 35mm presentation!
In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military. With his friends, loved ones, and the future of China itself at stake, Wong must once again use his martial arts skills to defend the innocent.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1995 Kung Fu film THE BLADE. A 35mm presentation!
After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker, as his successor, On, unwilling to lead his surly colleagues, embarks on a quest of revenge to kill the evil, flying, tattooed kung fu master who killed his father.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1993 Kung Fu film IRON MONKEY. A 35mm presentation! Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. They call him “Iron Monkey.” Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name and no one knows where he comes from, his heroism has made him a living legend to the people and a wanted man to the powers that be.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1993 Kung Fu film FONG SAI YUK. A 35mm presentation!
Jet Li stars in this Hong Kong martial-arts extravaganza that tells of evil emperors and true love. The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members of that secret society. Meanwhile, Canton kung fu practitioner Fong Sai-Yuk falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant, recently moved to Canton. Her father, in an attempt to gain influence in the region and thus improve his business, offers his daughter in marriage to the winner of a kung-fu contest.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
