Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Mel Johnson Jr.

Total Recall asks – how would you know if someone stole your mind? Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is haunted by recurring memories of Mars so he goes buys a holiday at Rekal Inc. (mind transplanters) but something goes wrong and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. This kicks off a series of events both he and the audience could never have imagined! Giving an existential crisis new meaning, Quaid wonders whether he exists and, if he does, who the hell is he? One thing’s for sure, he’s tough, smart and his journey is a fantastically explosive ride!

Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

Structured around four movements, 2001: A Space Odyssey shows discoveries of black monoliths throughout different time periods and the quest to either destroy or discover what they mean. It also deals with the struggle of a growing reliance on technology in a very frightful imagining that computers should never be wrong but that they can also become human. Most importantly, despite its convoluted narrative, 2001 is a symphony of sound and stunning visuals that include the most realistic vision of space for the time of its production.

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser

Fact: Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is our favorite space hero and Aliens is one of the best sequels ever made. The film picks up after Ripley returns home after 57 years, the lone survivor of her crew who won the fight with the deadly Alien. Traumatized, she’s lost her flight license and no one truly believes her tale until she’s sent back to the alien planet after the inhabitants of a newly terra-formed community have gone missing. Suffice to say, she’s proven right and a war begins. Ripley becomes the ultimate sexy badass woman in film history once again.

A coming of age film as two young Arkansas boys find themselves mixed up in the mysterious life of a man named MUD. 

“Mud” is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios—he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

Taking the audience through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death.

Beginning in 2011 in Lahore at an outdoor café, a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells American journalist Bobby (Liev Schreiber) about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years to a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez’s dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. With time, he begins to hear the call of his own homeland. 

Nitehawk’s got a panic on their hands on the Fourth of July – our annual Fourth of July weekend screening of JAWS is back! Don’t miss our Saturday and Sunday matinees along with an additional screening on Independence Day (2pm)!

Steven Spielberg’s glorious Jaws is the film that defined the blockbuster and has made generations of movie-goers terrified of going into the water. When a giant great white sharks swims into the town of Amityville during the fourth of july holiday and begins munching on vacationers, it sets off a battle on both land and in the sea. The first half of Jaws is the struggle of New Yorker sheriff Brody is get the mayor on board with the idea that a man-eating shark is cause enough to close the beach. The second half is an adventurous boat trip with Brody,marine biologist “city hands” Hopper, and salty fisherman “chalkboard” Quint as they battle the shark on its own surf. In between, you get a lot of intensely scary moments. Trust us, you’ll never forget the first time you see that shark pop out of the water on the big screen!

FOURTH OF JULY FOOD & BEVERAGE SPECIALS
LOBSTER ROLL
Poached lobster, lemon aioli, Old Bay, celery, red onion, house cut fries or salad

LIBERTY DOG 
The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company beef and pork dog wrapped in bacon, beef chili, queso, Martin’s potato roll, house cut fries or salad 

NARRAGANSETT
16 oz Draught 

LIBERTY BELL LEMONADE
Rittenhouse Rye, SNAP Ginger Liqueur, housemade mint lemonade 

BLOOD IN THE WATER
Avua Cachaça, Flor de Caña Silver Rum, lime, pineapple, coconut, falernum, cinnamon syrup, crème de violette, Peychaud’s Bitters 

Part of Nitehawk’s INDEPENDENCE DAY celebration!

June’s midnite LIVE SOUND CINEMA is a must-see giallo by Dario Argento Four Flies on Grey Velvet with a live score by Daniel Collás performed by Yello Magi.

Giallo and live music! Creepy puppet masks, whispers in the dark, and a murder mystery…Four Flies on Grey Velvet is indeed a Dario Argento film! In fact, it’s the third in the director’s “Animal Trilogy” that began with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and The Cat o’Nine Tails. The killings begin when rock drummer Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) accidently offs the man who has been stalking him. Of course it doesn’t end there. Enter a homicidal maniac who starts murdering all of Roberto’s friends in revenge. But as it is with every good Argento giallo, nothing is as it appears to be!

Daniel Collás is the producer, songwriter, and main mind behind the Phenomenal Handclap Band, whose 2009 hit “15-20” caught the ear of Paul McCartney and started them on a path playing worldwide tours alongside the likes of Bryan Ferry, Franz Ferdinand, and Chairlift, to name a few.

The second film in Nitehawk’s Vamps and Virgins silent film series is based on the most famous martyr in history, Joan of Arc. This LIVE SOUND CINEMA event features a live score by Guizot.

A landmark of cinema featuring one of the best performances in film history by Renée Jeanne Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc is based on the actual trial record of the infamous Joan of Arc (1412-1431). It depicts her trial, imprisonment, torture, and execution by the English after refusing to recant her belief that’s she is on a mission from God to drive England out of France. Some believe she’s a saint while others, well, you know. Hailed as a masterpiece even immediately after its release, it’s just an impressive today and is one to certainly see on the big screen with a live band.

From the Vamps and Virgins series text…The Passion of Joan of Arc has Maria Falconetti acting without makeup or artifice; as “Joan” she is a defiant fortress of will. Such a terrible and tearful portrait of uncompromising virgin purity driven into martyrdom is a subject rarely experienced in contemporary cinema.

The Passion of Joan of Arc is part of Nitehawk Cinema’s Vamps and Virgins series that explores the two sides of the leading lady spectrum in silent film.

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Toni Collette, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, Emily Woof

Todd Hayne’s Velvet Goldmine centers around the over-the-top career and faux-murder-fall of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Myers) as told through the 1984 journalist investigation by Arthur (Christian Bale). Post-Beatles, pre-punk, and loosely based on Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Slade is the bisexual icon of London glam rock responsible for the shocking behavior and style of glam masses…and he’s had enough of himself. After faking his own death on stage, Slade slides into obscurity only to be rediscovered when Arthur revisits his influence. The film interweaves the characters past-and-present in a non-linear style, reflecting various aspects of Slade’s career and personal life. It goes without saying that Velvet Goldmine is highly stylised with a killer soundtrack.

Possessed with sex! Bad Girls Go to Hell is the quintessential 1960s naughty by the queen of sexploitation films and John Waters’ favorite, Doris Wishman.

Are you a bad girl? Do you like bad girls? Do you know they go to hell?! Doris Wishman paved the way, along with contemporaries like Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), to show very dirty and very violent things up on the big screen – and always with a woman in charge! In Bad Girls Go to Hell we see the rise and fall of Ellen who, after killing the man who rapes her (her building’s janitor no less), goes out on the road to escape her past…only to find herself in more sexed up situations in which she is taken advance of and manipulated. Her body may be up for grabs but will her new identity be compromised? An empowering feminist flick of the sexiest and campy sort, Bad Girls Go to Hell is amongst the cannon of sexploitation films and it’s our June NITEHAWK NAUGHTY!