Art Seen hosts a special evening with frieze as they present a selection of new frieze videos and Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard’s 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH. Introduction by frieze editor, Dan Fox.

20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of musician and cultural icon Nick Cave. In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave’s life with never-before-seen verité observation of his creative cycle. Neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000 Days On Earth still contains electrifying performances. Audiences see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas to an epic performance at Sydney Opera House. Cave also opens up to a psychoanalyst as he discusses how his early years continue to inform his work, and journeys through his memories via mementos from his personal archive. This category-defying film pushes the form into new territory, exploring universal themes about artistry, and celebrating the transformative power of the creative spirit.

frieze magazine was set up in 1991 and is the leading magazine of contemporary art and culture. frieze includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators. frieze video features short-form interviews, documentaries, studio visits and more of those in the contemporary art world. 

Music Driven presents a special screening of THE COLOR OF NOISE featuring a Q&A with director Eric Robel and Amphetamine Reptile Records founder Tom Hazelmyer (aka Haze XXL), moderated by Noisey’s Fred Pessaro.

The Color of Noise is a full-length documentary about the artist Haze XXL (Tom Hazelmyer) and his label Amphetamine Reptile Records. The film highlights many of the label’s bands (The Melvins, Helmet, Unsane, Boss Hog and Today Is The Day) and visual artists (Shepard Fairey, Frank Kozik, Coop and Ed Fotheringham) through mini bio-pics weaved throughout Tom’s story. The Color of Noise is an exceptional look at the integrity of the American underground starting in the late 80’s through the mid 90’s, specifically targeting forerunners of the grunge movement, the collision of punk rock and printmaking, and beyond.

Starring: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Billy Zane, Terrence Mann

When a band of hardened extraterrestrial criminals escapes from a maximum-security prison asteroid and steal an escape craft, the flesh-eating ETs unwittingly head to a small, unsuspecting planet–Earth–pursued by a pair of awesomely powerful, if unbelievably inept, bounty hunters. Now, it’s the humans against the very hungry, man-eating aliens in a battle for the future of mankind!  

Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents Robert Wiene’s silent horror masterpiece THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI with a live score by PARLOR WALLS.

One of cinema’s first horror films as well as a German Expressionist film masterpiece, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari creates a vivid and dreamlike world. Werner Krauss stars as a doctor with a carnival attraction, a “somnambulist” (Conrad Veidt) who predicts people’s deaths and, under his master’s control, often causes those deaths. There’s no better way to start off the Halloween film season than at the beginning; The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is a true original with its angled architectural props, dynamic costumes, touch of surrealist dreamlike state, and psychological twist of an ending.

Providing the live score to The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is Parlor Walls, an experimental duo formed by singer/guitarist Alyse Lamb (EULA) and drummer/keyboardist Chris Mulligan. Sonic artist Jason Shelton will be joining Parlor Walls for the live score to this screening.

Part of Nitehawk’s March COMMITTED brunch series. 

SecretFormula presents…     

Spoons, Toons & Booze Gone Wild

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoons Featuring the Sexiest & Most Scantily Clad Toons on TV!

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

Before the FCC ruined everything, cartoons got away with some pretty sexy stuff on television. This month, we’re screening episodes featuring sexy babes and beefcakes, beach bodies, scantily clad toons and even more sexiness that was almost too hot for TV! If you’re turned on by anthropomorphic mice in tight jumpsuits, this is the show for you. 

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

– A special menu of episodes featuring the sexiest and most scantily clad toons on Saturday morning!

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

– Special cereal-themed cocktail menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and the “The Complete Breakfast” with Cinnamon Toast Crunch-infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream and iced coffee!

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

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!

Nitehawk presents a special one night screening with Abrams Books of Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL in celebration of Matt Zoller Seitz’s new book The Grand Budapest Hotel. 

Book signing with Matt Zoller Seitz in Nitehawk’s lobby immediately following the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel available for sale & Seitz will also introduce the film!

Golden Globe winner for Best Picture Comedy/Musical and nominated for nine Academy Awards (including Best Picture), Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

In the new book, The Grand Budapest Hotel, through a series of interviews with Seitz, Anderson shares the story behind the film’s conception, personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and the wide variety of sources that inspired it—from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. The book also features critical essays by Ali Arikan, Steven Boone, David Bordwell, Olivia Collette, and Christopher Laverty; interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, ephemera, and artwork illustrate these interviews and essays. The cover is designed by graphic artist Max Dalton, who also illustrated the cover for Seitz’s previous book, The Wes Anderson Collection, that will also be available for sale at the event!

Nitehawk is also screening Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN on February 24 in conjunction with the release of the new book Altman.

Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier

3 Women is one of Robert Altman’s most beautiful-looking and personal films. It is the story of three women: Millie (Shelley Duvall) and Pinky (Sissy Spacek) are attendants at the Desert Hot Springs spa, where they help older patients in and out of mineral baths. The first is self-absorbed and self-assured to the point of delusion. The second, meek and inexperienced, appears smitten by her friend’s poise. Willie (Janice Rule) paints eerie creatures on the bottom of the pool and is pregnant. The main male character of the film is her husband, Edgar (Robert Fortier). According to Altman, amid this strange triangle of shifting female identities, the macho, boozing, womanizing Edgar is sort of a “last man on earth.”

RELATIONS: THE LOVE STORY FROM DENMARK is a bleak look at the doomed relationship between a sixteen year old girl and her well-to-do married lover.

Although targeted to the American market to satiate the desire for “naughty Denmark,” Relations: the Love Story from Denmark (“Sonja – 16 år”) actually attempts social commentary through its bleak representation of the doomed relationship between a 16 year old girl from the streets named Sonja and her married factory owner lover, Pegel. Pegel becomes obsessed in his lust for Sonja but the more he discovers about her, the more mired he is in her mystery. She, in turn, exploits him. Co-directed by Hans Abramson and Brandon Chase, Relations: the Love Story From Denmark is a sex film that’s not really a sex film. As Jack Stevenson writes, “Hiding in all these sexy porn movies was some fascinating social commentary, if anybody noticed.” This film aims for something more.

Part of the Nitehawk Naughties SCANDINAVIAN EROTIC CINEMA program.

A doctor assists a young woman with her sexual exploration in WITHOUT A STITCH.

Based on the banned book by Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe, Danish film Without a Stitch (Uden en trævl) adopts the carefree attitude towards sex but does it in a fictional, not documentary, style. This erotic fantasy features Lillian, a young high school student, who seeks medical advice after her first sexual attempt with her boyfriend goes awry. The film stakes a very firm stance in its representation of freedoms coming from the sexual revolution as Dr. Peterson opens Lillian up to the various pleasures of sex so as to  avoid the ever-dreaded frigidity. Directed by Annelise Meineche, Without a Stitch is actually a softcore film but its implications of “anything goes” caused it to open at the Loews Flagship theater in Broadway in 1970 after U.S. obscenity charges stalled its U.S. release. Once out in the world it continued the wave of sex films being widely played for mainstream audiences.  

Part of the Nitehawk Naughties SCANDINAVIAN EROTIC CINEMA program.

A sixteen year old nymphomaniac attempts rehabilitation in ANITA, THE SWEDISH NYMPHET.

By the time Language of Love director Torgny Wickman’s film Anita (later titled Anita the Swedish Nymphet or Anita – ur en tonårsflickas dagbok) came out in 1974, Scandinavia’s reputation for making naughty films was already well known. Christina Lindberg (star of Maid in Sweden, They Call Her One Eye and notable for appearances in Playboy) stars as Anita, the sixteen year old nymphomaniac whose rebellious sexual acts with numerous strange men gets her into dangerous situations. Enter young psychology student Eric played by Stellan Skarsgard (in an interesting precursory role to Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac) who valiantly attempts to “cure” her. But her sexual acts are a protest to family and tradition so it won’t be an easy transformation. Sound familiar?  

Part of the Nitehawk Naughties SCANDINAVIAN EROTIC CINEMA program.