Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent
4K restoration
In the ring, Jake LaMotta was a fearless middleweight champion, a fighter whose animal strength made him unstoppable; but the traits of a champion aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be. Quick to anger, sexually frustrated, brutally masochistic, all traits of a punishing fighter; but a husband? A brother? In Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese side-steps the typical sports biopic that lionizes its subjects in favor of a violent, unflinching portrait of a man controlled by his animal lusts.
Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones, Ade, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Alan Ford
It all starts with Franky “Four Fingers,” a gambler who manages to swipe an 84-carat diamond that’s worth a fortune on the black market. The theft sends shockwaves through the British underground, as everyone from shady boxing promoters to ex-KGB arms dealers get sucked into a knot of botched jobs and dead bodies. Loaded with comic toughs (Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones), salty wise guys (Dennis Farina, Alan Ford) and good old fashioned weirdos (Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt), Guy Ritchie’s Snatch plays out like a an illegal game of Mouse Trap.
Woody Allen’s classic comic thriller on life’s CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. A 35mm presentation.
Judah Rosenthal and Cliff Stern have problems.
Judah’s a respected doctor with a great deal of dirty laundry. His mistress has grown impatient with promises to leave his wife, and threatens to go public with their affair, a revelation that would unravel the good doctor’s professional and social standing. Judah struggles with what to do; does he face the consequences of his actions, or does this desperate situation allow for a more permanent – and unspeakable – solution? Who’s to say what’s unspeakable, anyway?
Cliff’s a documentary filmmaker whose rocky marriage and dodgy finances force him to take on a puff-piece project about his blowhard brother-in-law. While filming, Cliff falls in love with a production assistant and he agonizes over his infatuation with her, while also struggling to glamorize his oafish brother-in-law.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE PERFECT CRIME brunch series.
On the run from Johnny Law… ain’t no trip to Cleveland.
Anthony (Luke Wilson) doesn’t have much going for himself after his self-imposed stay at the psyche ward, that is until his ambitious mess of a friend Dignan (Owen Wilson) convinces him to take on the romantic life of the career criminal. Dignan’s got it all figured it out, a 75-year road map of their life in crime. They’ve got guns, they’ve got masks, they’ve even got a car and a guy to drive it — none of them have ever robbed a place before, but that part can’t be that hard to figure out, can it?
The debut feature for brothers Luke and Owen Wilson as well as writer/director Wes Anderson, BOTTLE ROCKET may not have the same distinct look as Anderson’s later films, but it certainly shows off his skill with jokey dialogue and absurd characters, as well as his soft-spot for well-meaning screw-ups.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE PERFECT CRIME brunch series.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING is the story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed. The film is based on the memoir “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen,” by Jane Hawking.
An intense and haunting portrayal of a brilliant, complicated man, THE IMITATION GAME follows a genius under nail-biting pressure to help put an end to World War II.
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality – little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.
Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany’s WWII Enigma machine.
Director Alex Ross Perry will be at Nitehawk for a Q&A on 10/27 following the 7pm show!
A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, LISTEN UP PHILIP is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit.
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip’s idol, Ike Zimmerman, offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject—himself.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival opens with an evening featuring an incredible program of documentary, animation and narrative fiction shorts.
Introduction by festival programmers and Q&A with filmmakers following the screening. Plus, we announced the Festival prize winner and host and after-party in Nitehawk’s downstairs bar from 11:30pm – 1:00am!
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: OPENING NITE PROGRAM
Efrén Hernández – Master Muscles (14 minutes)
Dean Peterson – Ving Rhames (9 minutes)
Sam Cullman and Benjamin Rosen – Black Cherokee (20 minutes)
Trinity Andersson and Barry Andersson – Me & Ewe (7 minutes)
Elizabeth Chatelain – Jenny and Steph (9 minutes)
Mickey Duzyj and Jeremy Johnstone – The Perfect 18 (7 minutes)
Paolo Bitanga – Mang Abe’s Ube (The Farmer and the Glowing Green Shell) (15 minutes)
Program subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos). One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is excited to introduce the debut of a ‘Midnite’ category this year.
Co-programmed with Sam Zimmerman (Fangoria), this program features short films by international filmmakers more appropriately viewed after dark. Screening includes an introduction by Caryn Coleman, Sam Zimmerman and filmmakers.
Filmmakers Gathering pre-party in our downstairs bar from 10pm – 12am.
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: MIDNITE PROGRAM
Darren Banks – Interiors (ALT Ending) (10 minutes)
Peter McCoubrey and Luke McCoubrey – The Grey Matter (18 minutes)
Andrea McGinty – McDreamy (2 minutes)
Claire Ensslin – Pedestrian (7 minutes)
Ben Aston – He Took His Skin Off For Me (11 minutes)
David Cronenberg – The Nest (9 minutes)
Rick Niebe – Study for Interior with Figures and Sounds (4 minutes)
Jesse Burks – One Please (6 minutes)
Bonnie Black – Brute (15 minutes)
Ben Steiner – The Stomach (15 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos). One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our DAY TWO brunch screening featuring a another fantastic program of documentary, animation and narrative fiction shorts.
Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers and festival programmers along with a casual closing party afterwards in our downstairs bar!
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: DAY TWO PROGRAM
Dan Canyon and Leo Marks – Cuckoo (8 minutes)
Connor Hurley – The Naturalist (12 minutes)
Christopher Hawthorne – Bender (18 minutes)
Josh Lopata – Fade (9 minutes)
Talia Alberts – re: Jess (15 minutes)
Joe Kowalski and Zoe Logan – Minor Monuments (3 minutes)
Nerina Penzhorn – A Day in the Sun (13 minutes)
Jacob LaMendola – Stoney (15 minutes)
Joe Petrilla – reConception (12 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos).One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
