The legendary Pink Floyd plays in a vacant 2,000 year old amphitheater in the “anti-Woodstock” film from the 70s PINK FLOYD: LIVE AT POMPEII. A 35mm presentation!

The word “live” in the movie title is a bit of a red herring when it comes to Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, since the only audience in the oldest surviving Roman amphitheater in the world is the film’s crew. But it’s also what makes it all so entrancing. Seeing Floyd bookend a set of late-Sixties space-rock triumphs like “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” and enfant terrible gong-banging freak-outs with Meddle‘s “Echoes” – while watching it all seem to evanesce into the air, amidst the weeds, ancient sculptures and molten lava of Pompeii (with an assist from a barking dog) – seems like the perfect setting for the group. With the addition of some trippy camera effects and studio footage of the group making Dark Side of the Moon, Pompeii became the ultimate document of psych-rock’s transition into prog. – Rolling Stone

Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.

An animated cat gets saucy in 1960s New York in Ralph Bakshi’s directorial debut, FRITZ THE CAT. A 35mm presentation!

First things first, Fritz the Cat was the first animated feature film to receive an X-rating in the U.S. (so you know it’s good). It is also based on legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb’s comic strip but he infamously objected over the film’s political content. Fritz the Cat centers around an anthropomorphic college-aged and sex obsessed cat named Fritz who romps through New York during the 1960s exploring hedonism and sociopolitical consciousness. It covers everything from Black Panthers to Hell’s Angels, race relations, free love, and drugs. As far as adult oriented animations, this one is the best!

Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.

Nitehawk Cinema’s Live Sound Cinema presents an out of control scientific experiment with ALTERED STATES featuring a live score by LONG DISTANCE POISON.

You know the story…a brilliant, unconventional and totally mad scientist uses himself as the subject for his highly experimental project and ends up, well, a little worse for the wear. Here we have 1960s Harvard professor of abnormal psychology Eddie Jessup who revisits an experiment from his graduate school days in which he uses untested hallucinogens in his sensory deprivation tank to prove his theory that other states of consciousness are as real as our waking state. Unfortunately the side effects just might be genetically regressive which is not only harmful to his own self but to those around him. Side note, this is the film debut of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore!

A Live Sound Cinema presentation. Part of Nitehawk’s April TUNE IN, TURN ON midnite series.

Who Is Killing The Great Real-Estate Tycoons Of NYC?… THE DEUCE finds out when we take you to The Harris Theatre for WOLFEN!

Plus: Prizes and surprises, Bronx Brewery Pale Ale at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Just Added: Actor Tom Noonan will be joining The Deuce boys for a special Q&A following the film!

A bevy of grisly beheadings with connections to bombed-out-Bronx building development bewilders NYC Homicide cop Albert Finney and finicky coroner friend Gregory Hines – they’re just not biting on this B.S. of ‘terrorists’ being behind it all. Sound familiar? But things get even more bizarre when ‘high-steel’ American Indian Activists and self-described ‘shape-shifters’ start showing up on the suspects list. Suffice it to say: someone or some-THING is out there trying to level the playing field and it will tear the scream from your throat!!

The only non-Woodstock film directed by Michael Wadleigh from the novel by Whitley Strieber. Starring Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Edward James Olmos, Diane Venora… and creepy Tom Noonan as a nutty zoologist!

SecretFormula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Says No To Drugs

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes That Will Help You Say No To Drugs!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, SecretFormula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

Spoons, Toons & Booze is giving back with some community service in honor of that infamous day that occurs every 20th of April. For one weekend only we’ll be providing drug awareness education with a special menu of anti-drug episodes featuring your favorite cartoon characters as they fight for truth, justice and a drug-free future for our children! Come to think of it, I don’t think that worked very well…

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– Special menu of anti-drug themed episodes including the super rare “Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue”, the 1990 government sponsored anti-drug PSA that includes just about every cartoon character from your childhood! Only showed on TV once, we’ve got an exclusive copy smuggled from the Pentagon vault just for you!

– Satisfy your munchies with our free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave. Soy and regular milk available!

– Cure your dry mouth with our amazing White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and a special green “420 Green Russian”!

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl.

– Compete in contests (including The D.A.R.E. Challenge) to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!

The Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film out of Argentina, WILD TALES spins six stories about the pleasure of losing control.

Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world we live in cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This is a movie about those people.

Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover’s betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

Music Driven presents a special screening of RYE COALITION: THE STORY OF THE HARD LUCK FIVE featuring a post screening Q&A with director Jenni Matz & members of Rye Coalition and an after party in our Lo-Res bar downstairs featuring DJ Lobster Tears!

When they signed with one of the world’s biggest record labels, Rye Coalition was primed to finally get their glory, or so it seemed. Like countless rockers before them, childhood best friends started a band in a basement with a couple simple goals in mind: have fun and play good music.  As one of the first bands to develop the new “emo” sound, they were at the forefront of a movement that included Shellac, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker and Karp (with whom they later recorded a legendary 12? split). Rye Coalition’s first recording was a demo cassette tape (1994?s “Dancing Man”, self-released), backed by an East Coast tour in a beat up school bus long before most of them had their driver’s license.  For over a decade they blasted through a seemingly endless array of basement shows and dive bar gigs as their talent and fan base grew. They released albums on indie labels and toured the country on bigger and bigger bills: (At-the-Drive-in, Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age , Foo Fighters). After gaining momentum from 2002?s “On Top” LP, engineered by Steve Albini, they were signed to Dreamworks Records and none other than Dave Grohl (Nirvana) came on as their producer. Then, it all imploded. As Henry Owings of Chunklet put it- “Rye Coalition has had the worst luck of any band I can think of.”

This film traces their career (culled from over 20 years of home movies and unseen tour footage) supplemented with new interviews with the band and those who know them best. Although the band was praised by critics and supported by an absurdly dedicated grassroots fan base, somehow these Jersey rockers never got their due. Until now.

Malastrana Film Series is thrilled to announce two special midnight screenings of Umberto Lenzi’s PARANOIA at Nitehawk as part of “The Killer Must Kill Again! aka Giallo Fever! Part 2” (March 20-29, Anthology Film Archives). Screening in 35mm!

Originally titled ORGASMO in Italian, PARANOIA is the first installment of the prolific genre director Umberto Lenzi’s Giallo Sexy trilogy. In this classic psychological thriller, an erotic triangle develops when an American actress played by the beautiful Carroll Baker retires to an Italian villa after her husband’s sudden death, and becomes a target of the seductive Lou Castel (of “Fists in the Pocket” fame) and his dubious sister played by Colette Descombes. Part Diabolique and part Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lenzi infuses this claustrophobic nightmare with a dose of his unique blend of sleaze and tension, bringing it to culminate in its final explosion. If Lenzi’s masterful camerawork is not enough to drive you to the brink of madness, Piero Umiliani’s eccentric main theme is sure to do the job.

About the festival: They are back in town! Armed with sharper knives, shinier leather gloves and even more deranged motives, THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN! aka GIALLO FEVER PART 2 picks up where the first series left off, bringing 12 classic and under-screened Italian gialli to the Big Apple in rare 35mm prints. Part 2 expands on this highly inventive genre, showcasing films by Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Aldo Lado, Umberto Lenzi, Giulio Questi and Luigi Bazzoni.

For more information on the series, please visit Anthology Film Archives!

Update: A second show has been added for Tuesday, April 21st at 7:15pm! 

Grab some burgers, some beers and a few laughs at THE BIG LEBOWSKI Film Feast. Your troubles are over, Dude.

Sometimes there’s a man — we won’t say a hero, ’cause what’s a hero? — but sometimes there’s a man who fits right in there — and that’s the Dude, in Los Angeles. The Dude spends most of his time knocking back caucasians while getting baked in the bath; if he’s not there, he’s almost definitely at the bowling alley. Things seem to be going all right for The Dude, that is until a couple of toughs break into his apartment and take a leak on his favorite rug. On a quest to get his rug back, The Dude takes on the role of private dick on behalf of his richer namesake, The Big Lebowski, a wheelchair bound millionaire whose wife has gone missing. And even if he’s a lazy man – and the Dude was most certainly that…. But… lost our train of thought here… Aw hell, we’ve done introduced him enough.

For this 4/20 (and 4/21!) screening of the Coens’ classic half-baked LA Noir, we’ve teamed up with fully-baked California brewery Lagunitas to cook up a multi-course meal that abides with scenes from the movie.

“BOWLING ALLEY GRILLED CHEESE”
grafton cheddar, spicy bacon and onion jam, pretzel bread
Drink Pairing: Lagunitas Pils

“LATIN BOWLING ALLEY AREPAS”
crispy corn cake, queso fresco, salsa verse
Drink Pairing: Lagunitas Censored/Kronik

“THE MUNCHIES”
pigs in a blanket, Brooklyn Bangers Spicy Beef Sausage, puff pastry, My Friends Beer mustard
Drink Pairing: Lagunitas IPA

“IN-N-OUT BURGER”
Pat La Frieda burger, Velveeta, special sauce, brioche bun, shoestring fries, housemade ketchup
Drink Pairing: White Russian featuring Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout

“LINGONBERRY PANCAKES”
German style pancakes, lingonberry jam
Drink Pairing: Lagunitas Brown Shugga’

“THE NIHILIST COURSE”
We believe in noszing, Lebowski.

Part of Nitehawk’s FILM FEASTS signature series.