Starring: Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen
Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, Lingua Franca follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood. Olivia’s main priority is to secure a green card to stay in America. But when she unexpectedly becomes romantically involved with Olga’s adult grandson Alex (Eamon Farren), issues around identity, civil rights and immigration threaten her very existence.
The Big Cheese follows a scrappy team of eccentric cheesemongers in the world of competitive cheesemongering as they battle personal struggles and cultural clashes while training to become world champion cheesemongers. With reputations, redemption, and a historic victory on the line, can they finally prove America belongs on the world’s biggest cheese stage? Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz is attempting to change that by coaching a team of American cheesemongers to victory at the Mondial du Fromage, the “Olympics of Cheese,” in France. Team USA has never won.
With the purchase of each ticket, you also receive:
Mister Moo’s udderly insane box of delicious cheese treats and a 30 minute class on how to taste cheese like a professional before the film screening. Each box includes:
1655 Le Gruyere AOP – SWITZERLAND – Raw Cow – 12 Months: This profile of Gruyere is selected from the best producer in Switzerland boasting a dense and slightly crystalline texture, aromas of tropical fruit and warm milk and finish with savory flavors of bone broth and caramelized onions. Paired with Toffee.
Wrangeback – SWEDEN – RAW COW – Made at a manor that dates back to the year 1225, this Tomme style is endowed with a remarkably smooth and unctuous texture while delivering a flavors cultured butter, mushroom bouillon and fermented grass. Paired with bread and butter pickles.
OG Kristal – BELGIUM – PASTEURIZED COW – A unique aged Belgian gouda recipe, this cheese gets its name from the characteristic crystalline yet smooth texture. Made with milk from a single dairy, this profile has a dominant butterscotch character balanced by a fruity undertone similar to boozy cherries. Paired with dried purple mulberries.
Shadow Blossom – GERMANY – RAW COW – Born out of a collaboration with Michelin star restaurant Schattbuch in Bavaria, this cheese is encrusted with a special blend of 5 peppercorns to provide floral, citrus notes to cut through the brown butter and raw hazelnut flavors of the cheese. Paired with coppa.
AND Nitehawk will offer curated beverage pairings for purchase along with the normal Nitehawk menu.
Starring: April Consalo, Nate Wise, Clay Von Carlowitz
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with The FOFIF and a story of gore and romance, CANNIBAL MUKBANG. Joining us will be director Aimee Kuge for an extended introduction and merch giveaway. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female (a non-profit org), select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen
Shy and looking for love, Mark quickly becomes smitten with the outgoing and mysterious Ash, who somehow, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. But as his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into Ash’s biggest love: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed.
Delving into a fascinating subculture while never losing focus on her characters, first-timer Aimee Kuge delivers a raucous and bold horror-comedy seeped in romance and gore. – Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Starring: Eric Lehning, Cody De Vos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer, Jordan Lehning, Josh Duensing
Make-Out with Violence is a genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up-beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming-of-age stories.
It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the unexplained disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy’s mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the undead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life.
As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Skeptical novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) invites self-proclaimed medium Madame Arcati (Margaret Rutherford) to his home for a séance, hoping to gather material for a new book. When the hapless psychic accidentally summons the spirit of Condomine’s late wife, Elvira (Kay Hammond), his home and life are quickly turned into a shambles as his wife’s ghost torments both himself and his new bride, Ruth (Constance Cummings). David Lean directed this adaptation of Noel Coward’s hit play.
Starring: J. Trevor Edmond, Mindy Clarke, Kent McCord, James T. Callahan, Sarah Douglas
A teen (J. Trevor Edmond) uses an Army chemical to revive his dead girlfriend (Mindy Clarke) after a motorcycle accident.
Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Defying her conventional in-laws, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) leaves London with her young daughter and moves away for a quieter life in a secluded seaside cottage. Lucy discovers the ghost of the deceased former owner, sea captain Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), is haunting the house, but gathers the courage to stand up to him, and woman and ghost become friends. Faced with dwindling means of support, Lucy agrees to the Captain’s challenge to write his colorful life story.
Starring: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow
Includes “Stink-o-Vision” scratch-and-sniff cards!
Dead Lover is a hilarious, delirious, beautiful, horny, and wholly original Frankensteinian tale about the limits one Gravedigger will go to hold onto love.
A lonely Gravedigger reeks so strongly of corpses that she can’t attract a lover. She concocts fragrant perfumes in her workshop, but nothing can save her romantic prospects from her ghastly odor… Until one day, when Gravedigger meets Lover, an aristocratic dandy in town for his sister’s funeral. Lover is different: numb to the pampered palette of the aristocracy, his loins are downright aroused by Gravedigger’s morbid stank. Before long, Gravedigger and Lover begin a rapturous love affair, become engaged, and dream of starting a family. But suddenly, Gravedigger’s dreams are ripped away when Lover tragically drowns in a shipwreck – and all that is recovered is his severed finger, still wrapped in his engagement ring. Delirious with grief and enduring love, Gravedigger resolves to bring Lover back to life using only his ring finger.
Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire
Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo. Followed by an after party in Trees Lounge with a DJ set of pre-code era tunes from Owen Kline plus our signature cocktail special “Blonde in Hell.”
Dancing Lady (1933) is a sparkling pre-Code backstage musical that pairs brash modernity with classic MGM glamour. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, a fiercely independent chorus girl whose bold ambition and unapologetic sexuality land her in trouble with the law—and unexpectedly into the orbit of Broadway producer Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). When Tod bails Janie out of jail and installs her as the star of his new show, her meteoric rise exposes the ruthless economics of show business, the fragility of male ego, and the double standards faced by women who dare to want both success and autonomy.
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the film delights in its era’s loosened moral codes, offering frank sexual innuendo, open class tension, and a refreshingly unsentimental look at romance. Clark Gable appears as Patch Gallagher, a tough, working-class lover who challenges the polished producer’s claim on Janie’s heart, setting up a triangle that pits wealth and respectability against passion and loyalty. With Busby Berkeley-style spectacle, antics from The Three Stooges (back when they were Ted Healy and his Stooges), and Crawford at the height of her early stardom, Dancing Lady captures a moment in Hollywood when women’s desire, labor, and ambition could be portrayed with striking candor.
