Starring: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott
Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is the go-to man to clean up dirty bars when they get a little too, well, crazy. Let’s just say that he’s the bouncer’s bouncer. But when he rolls into the Double Deuce for his latest gig, he encounters way more trouble than usual. Besides the lazy and incompetent staff, he notices violence runs throughout the town because of town bully, the rich Brad Wesley (stellar character by Ben Gazzara). As he engages in a battle of principle he also falls in love with nurse (Kelly Lynch). The fight, the love, and the Thai Chi scenes in Road House are pretty much the best things ever.
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove
The secret to Karate lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands.
Wax on, wax off. After moving from New Jersey to Southern California, young Italian-American kid Daniel Larusso realizes he doesn’t quite fit into the blonde-hair/surfer mold. But it’s when he falls for the popular girl, Ali Mills, and she falls back, that the resulting bullying sends him into the karate training hands of Mister Miyagi. As Miyagi trains his young apprentice he reveals more than just skills to fend off his attackers, he teaches Larusso valuable life lessons such as patience, balance, believing in one’s self and what true friendship means. A classic coming of age tale for the 80s, The Karate Kid shows that some things are worth smartly fighting for.
FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 27!
A son of Texas, Ron Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle. Suddenly, Ron is blindsided by being diagnosed as H.I.V.-positive and given 30 days to live. Yet he will not, and does not, accept a death sentence. His crash course of research reveals a lack of approved treatments and medications in the U.S., so Ron crosses the border into Mexico. With a growing community of friends and clients, Ron fights for dignity, education, and acceptance. In the years following his diagnosis, the embattled Lone Star loner lives life to the fullest like never before.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes
Buster Keaton’s 1925 silent comedy Seven Chances features a young financial broker Jimmie Shannon (Keaton) whose impending bankruptcy may be over when his firm reveals that his grandfather’s will leaves him seven million dollars. The only catch…in order to inherit the money he has to marry before 7pm on his 27th birthday which just happens to be TODAY! When his sweetheart turns down his marriage proposal because she think it’s just for money, Shannon goes on a wild adventure trying to land a bride. Don’t you worry, things all work out.
Before Seven Chances, we’ll be screening a new restoration of the 1920 Keaton short Neighbors: A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
Go on a trip of a lifetime with Nitehawk Nasties to see the most controversial film ever made, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (a 35mm presentation).
Italian courts, and the rest of the world, might have found Cannibal Holocaust to be distasteful upon its release but this film-within-a-film ignited what we now know as the found-footage genre. In fact, so convincing was Ruggero Deodato’s faux-documentary about New York anthropologist Professor Harold Monroe’s journey ill-fated journey to South America, that audiences believed what they saw to be fact. Ahead of its flesh-eating time, Cannibal Holocaust is two layered. On the one hand, the film shows Monroe’s recon mission to find out what happened to a missing documentary crew who were filming about primitive cannibal tribes in 1979. Then, there’s the only thing that remains of the crew: their film reels that reveal their shockingly brutal fate. Watch this movie and decide who the real cannibals are.
Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Nasties I EAT CANNIBALS program.
Starring: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman
Starring Dolly Parton at peak sparkle and Sylvester Stallone attempting the two-step, Rhinestone is a joyful time capsule of ’80s excess—packed with catchy tunes, fish-out-of-water comedy, and enough bedazzle to light up Broadway.
When a glamorous country queen makes a high-stakes bet that she can turn any New York cabbie into a Nashville star, the twang hits the fan. Enter Nick Martinelli: a tough-talking, rhythm-challenged driver with zero country cred and a whole lot to learn. Cue cowboy boots, honky-tonk hijinks, and a crash course in rhinestones, stage fright, and unlikely friendship.
How the book giveaway works: Purchase your tickets in advance (at least two days before the showtime), and you will be entered into a random lottery drawing. If your name is drawn, we will email you to notify you that you can pick up your book before the screening.
FINAL WEEKS: playing at Nitehawk until March 20! An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America.
Spoons, Toons & Booze Gets Banned
Secret Formula presents…Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes Not Allowed 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 excellent brunch menu.
Here at Secret Formula, when someone tells us not to do something we just have to do it. So we’ve put together a collection of cartoons from the 1930’s through the 1990’s that were never allowed to be shown on TV, or aren’t allowed to be shown ever again, because they’re too violent, racist, filthy, seizure inducing, devil worshiping or just downright offensive. The censors can’t keep us down and we’ll be showing them all on the big screen just for you! Come and enjoy…
– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!
– A special menu of cartoon episodes banned from TV!
– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.
– A White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs.
– 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 prizes from Nitehawk Cinema.
This January, slink into the Selwyn circa 1982 as THE DEUCE presents CAT PEOPLE, Paul Schrader’s sexed-up reboot of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton classic!
Plus: Selwyn Theatre history, prizes, surprises, drink special at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by ‘The Deuce Boys’: Jeff, Andy, and Joe! Raffle Prizes (a limited edition poster and New Blu-ray collectors edition) provided by Scream Factory.
Taxi-driving, bull-raging Paul Schrader, fresh off his 1980 smash American Gigolo, directs this adaptation by Alan Ormsby, co-writer of Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (with Bob Clark). Set to the stirring synth-sounds of a Giorgio Moroder (with David Bowie!) score, Schrader’s homage/update/distillation dials up the steam and smouldering passions that burn bright through the New Orleans bayou night…
A murderous black leopard is on the prowl… soon captured by hunky zoologist John Heard – but he wants to neck with the new naive gift shop-girl, Nastassja Kinski’s ice queen Irena. A repressed love affair ensues… but when kinky bro Malcolm McDowell returns, he ruins all the fun by divulging the family secrets of their incestually cursed legacy… “Every time it happens… you tell yourself it’s love. But it isn’t. It’s blood… And death!“
Starring: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero
What could possibly be more frightening than having the ultimate child-friendly figure, Santa Claus, turn out to be a maniacal killer? Tales from the Crypt did it back in the early 1970s and the vivid image of a deranged Saint Nic has never left our collective conscience. Silent Night, Deadly Night brings Christmas horror home and down the chimney when an adult-age Billy puts on a Santa costume at his new job and starts hacking people to bits. He’s unable to escape his performing his cruel actions but, then again, witnessing your parents’ murder and then suffering abuse at the hands of a frustrated nun doesn’t bode well for normal adult behavior. Silent Night, Deadly Night is a certain kind of holiday classic – it slays.
