Complimentary cocktails and small bites are available in our downstairs bar beginning at 8:30pm. Guests can then take the cocktails up to the theaters when seating begins!
Come see how New Yorkers rediscovered their Manhattans at the premiere screening of the documentary Spirit Guides: The Return of Craft Bartending in New York at Nitehawk.
The event at Nitehawk includes a pre-screening reception and guest bartenders (members of the cast) who will be mixing up signature cocktails for guests before and during the screening. There will also be a Q&A with the director and members of the cast like Q&A panelist: Julie Reiner (Clover Club, Flatiron Lounge), Jim Meehan (PDT), Jesse White (Director of Spirit Guides), as well as an after-party with cocktails (by more guest bartenders!) with small bites.
Shot at some of the most exclusive bars in New York, Spirit Guides: The Return of Craft Bartending features commentary from the industry’s most respected bartenders including Dale DeGroff, Julie Reiner, Audrey Saunders, Jim Meehan, and Brian Miller. Experience how a small group of bartenders rediscovered the lost history of classic cocktails, and how a new generation of bartenders is using this history to define the role of bartending today.
Guest Bartenders:
Meaghan Dorman (Raines Law Room and Lantern’s Keep)
Rob Krueger (Employees Only, Extra Fancy)
Eryn Reece (Death + Co., Mayahuel)
Jim Kearns (Prime Meats)
Joaquin Simo (Pouring Ribbons)
Lynnette Marrero (co-founder Speed Rack)
This is but one of the many tempting and titillating events of the 2013 Manhattan Cocktail Classic, taking place May 17 to May 21 in and around New York City. For a complete list of all the fabulous parties, pairings, seminars, and soirées taking place, and to snag tickets, go to www.manhattancocktailclassic.com.
Love and dreams of stardom in 1930s Hollywood come crashing down in this sensational film adaptation of the Nathanael West novel. Part of our mini-retrospective series, THE WORKS: KAREN BLACK.
The Day of the Locust uses Hollywood and its locusts (aka the mass of people who arrive to make it big, the sycophants) as a metaphor for 1930s America as it moved out of the depression-era into war-time. Focusing on a love-triangle between three people: Tod Hackett as the east-coast transplant looking to become a screenwriter who becomes obsessed with Faye Greener, an aspiring actress played by Karen Black who is incapable of true feelings but interested in using the dopey Homer Simpson (yes, that’s where the name came from) for money. Add in aspiring child actors and waning vaudeville stars, and The Day of the Locust becomes a surrealist vision of the apocalypse. In the end, things come crashing down in one of the more violent, bizarre, and over-the-top scenes in film history.
In the role of Faye, Karen Black takes the emotionally unavailable, fame hungry, dreamy aspiring actress into The Day of the Locusts’ realm of insanity at the highest level.
Nitehawk Cinema and Noisey present MUSIC DRIVEN, a new monthly music-centric film series. The debut screening is A Skin Too Few: the Days of Nick Drake featuring an introduction by Joe Boyd, the legendary American record producer who discovered Nick Drake.
A Skin Too Few: the Days of Nick Drake is a mostly chronological study of the life of musician Nick Drake (1948 – 1974) as told through the his family and friends. Eleven recordings featuring his quiet folk style are the film’s soundtrack as we see where he lived and died at the young age of 26.
Joe Boyd, Nick Drake’s discoverer and producer introduces a rare US screening of the film acclaimed as the best ever made about the mysterious figure of Nick Drake, A Skin Too Few. Boyd will also provide a sneak preview of his forthcoming tribute album “Way To Blue” (which features Lisa Hannigan, Green Gartside, Teddy Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan, Danny Thompson and many others.) He will also discuss his work with Nick Drake and read from the Drake chapters in “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s.” A special guest will sing a Nick Drake song and there will be a short Q&A between Joe Boyd and Noisey Editor, Ben Shapiro.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Francesca Annis, Max von Sydow, Sean Young, Virginia Madsen, José Ferrer
Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the wildest blockbusters ever committed to celluloid! Author Max Evry will be on hand to intro the film and sell/sign copies of his book A Masterpiece in Disarray.
David Lynch brought Frank Herbert’s wildly popular science-fiction novel Dune to the big screen in 1984 and it’s been a trip-tastic go-to-movie ever since. Set in the year 10,191 when the universe is dependent on a spice called Melange that can extend life and can fold time, a Duke’s son (Kyle MacLachlan) leads the enslaved desert warriors on the spice-producing planet Arrakis in an epic battle with the evil Emperor. In the tradition of futuristic space worlds like Star Wars and The Matrix, Dune is about a young man deemed the messiah rising up and trying to make things better for the people. Time, space, telepathy, monsters, madness, love, and righteousness – long live the fighters!
The Friday, May 31st screening includes a special introduction by Alan Cumming!
The unthinkable happens when a small plane collides into a 747 and a flight attendant has to take captain’s seat. Luckily, Karen Black and Charlton Heston are there to save the day!
Bound for Los Angeles, the Columbia Airlines’ Flight 409 is full of interesting passengers (you’ll can see them parodied in the 1980 spoof Airplane!) including an aging film star, a sick little girl, and a guitar-singing nun. Things take off fine at first but when a man has a heart attack while flying his small plane and then crashing into Flight 409, things take a disastrous turn. After all pilots are either sucked out or dying, flight attendant Nancy Pryor played by Karen Black takes charge of the plane that is miraculously still in the air but the only problem is that she can’t land it. Enter – literally onto the plane via helicopter – Nancy’s man-friend Captain Murdock (Charlton Heston, naturally) to help get everyone back down safely on the ground.
Part of The Works: Karen Black retrospective series.
A brilliant film about escaping your past, hating your present, and being fearful of the future while attempting to embrace life to the fullest.
Introduction for the Friday night screening by artist and filmmaker, Aïda Ruilova.
Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of Robert in Five Easy Pieces, an upper class man who has left it all behind for a working class existence, is uncomfortable, riveting, and a bit devastating. His constant struggle to distract himself with who he is and where he might be going (whether with girls, booze, or working in an oil field) makes him one mean fellow. Scenes such as the infamous diner order or the intimate conversation with his father make him relatable but that all comes crashing down at the end.
Stand by your man. Karen Black plays Robert’s beautiful but overly eager girlfriend Rayette, an aspiring singer who begs her man to love her when she probably shouldn’t.
Part of The Works: Karen Black retrospective series.
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
While somewhat light-hearted, Family Plot is still a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock so revealing too much of the plot defeats the whole purpose of experiencing it in the cinema. Still, we will say that Karen Black stars as Fran, part of a kidnapping and jewelry heist duo, who winds up involved in a plot to receive a family inheritance initiated by a faux-psychic/con-artist. As Hitchcock does so well, characters and plots intertwine, providing revealing clues to the audience while the people on-screen still solve the mystery and get the money. Plus, Karen Black personifies the ultimate Hitchcock woman by wearing a blond wig.
Friday night introduction by Sean Young! Both Easy Rider screenings include a very special pre-taped introduction and Q&A with Karen Black about the film and her role!
Easy Rider is a landmark American film about the encroaching disillusionment of the country’s counter culture movement in the late 1960s.
They’re not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent…Freedom.
Directed by Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider shows the real and metaphorical journey of two bikers Captain America and Billy (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) as they travel from New Orleans to Los Angeles. Along the way they realize the fabric of American culture is so fundamentally flawed that the promise of change invoked by the counter culture in the early 1960s seems to fade away. And although the tagline says that it’s about “a man who went looking for American…but couldn’t find it”, it seems more dangerous to suggest that perhaps he did.
In one of her first film roles, Karen Black (along with dance legend Toni Basil) plays one of the New Orleans prostitutes who takes up with Billy and Captain America during Mardi Gras and ends up in the Big Easy graveyard doing LSD, amongst other naughty deeds.
Part of The Works: Karen Black retrospective series.
Starring: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart
Desperate to escape the city, Ben and Marion Rolf along with their son David, take over a dilapidated house for the summer to get some much needed family time. The house super affordable but there’s a catch – they have to take care of the old recluse “Mrs. Allardyce” during their stay.
Burnt Offerings tackles domesticity in a very frightful way. The house has a mysterious life force of its own, one that slowly absorbs Marion into the honorable role of its “mother” while killing the others in order to complete its ritualistic rejuvenation. Hazy shots and slow narrative build only compound the eery realization that something is changing the Rolfs. The breakdown of the family is scary enough but it’s the dream-induced chauffeur character who has been the stuff of nightmares ever since the film’s release.
In the role of Marion Rolf, Karen Black plays a woman who becomes obsessed, and possessed, by a house; leaving her family behind for a new role as “mother.” Burnt Offerings is also packed with incredible performances by Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, and Bette Davis, no less.
Spend 420 with us by taking a psychedelic journey into the heart of Las Vegas with a goofy journalist and his questionable lawyer.
“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
Things start of weird and only get weirder when Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp doing a spot-on impression of Hunter S. Thompson) and Dr. Gonzo (Benicio de Toro at his heavyweight best) take a mescaline-fulled road trip to Las Vegas. Copious amounts of illegal drugs are consumed, hallucinations projected, and a sequence of oddballs met, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brings Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo journalism onto the big screen (it is based, after all, off his culture defining novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream). While Raoul and Dr. Gonzo languish in their drug-induced haze they do have philosophical musings about chasing the American dream and questioning the failure of the counter-culture revolution.
