Kickstarter presents BROOKLYN COMEDY FESTIVAL: SHORTS for a weekend of hilarity at Nitehawk!
The Brooklyn Comedy Festival and Kickstarter present Shorts, a weekend brunch and booze cruise through the best comedy short films of Brooklyn and beyond. Hidden behind the world of laugh tracks and blockbuster mediocrities there hums and buzzes a new class of surreal experiments in comedic cinema. The Brooklyn Comedy Festival and Kickstarter have partnered to curate and exhibit the best of them right here at Nitehawk Cinema!
SATURDAY PROGRAM
AN EXCERPT OF SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE | Rachel Wolther & Alex H. Fischer | 4 minutes
TOND | Josh Ruben + Vince Peone | 20 minutes
AFFECTIONS | Bridey Elliott | 16 minutes, 8 seconds
DOOR ON THE LEFT | Kati Skelton and Harrison Atkins | 5 minutes, 27 seconds
VISITOR INFORMATION | Alan Resnick | 4 minutes, 30 seconds
GREENER GRASS | Paul Briganti | 15 minutes
LATINER | Ines Gowland | 8 minutes, 50 seconds
UNABLE ARE THE LOVED TO DIE | Adam Sacks | 11 minutes, 46 seconds
JANA & SHASTA | Tynan Delong | 9 minutes, 21 seconds
PINEAPPLE | Micah Phillips | 6 minutes, 43 seconds
I AM A TALK SHOW HOST | David Bluvband & Riley Soloner | 3 minutes
FOXMOUTH | Nate Fernald | 11 seconds
SUNDAY PROGRAM
SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE | Rachel Wolther and Alex Fischer | 4 minutes
TOND | Josh + Vince | 20 minutes
AFFECTIONS | Bridey Elliott | 16 minutes, 8 seconds
DOOR ON THE LEFT | Kati Skelton and Harrison Atkins | 5 minutes, 27 seconds
VISITOR INFORMATION | Alan Resnick | 4 minutes, 30 seconds
GREENER GRASS | Paul Briganti | 15 minutes
FOR MAYA | Alex H. Fischer | 14 minutes, 52 seconds
MD MEMORIES | Matt Braunsdorf | 11 minutes, 5 seconds
THREE BUSY DEBRAS PRESENT “BRUNCH” | Sandy Honig & Jake Honig | 4 minutes, 21 seconds
SLURP | Grace Naw | 3 minutes, 39 seconds
SLURP 2 | Grace Naw | 3 minutes, 30 seconds
I AM A TALK SHOW HOST | David Bluvband & Riley Soloner | 3 minutes
FOXMOUTH | Nate Fernald | 11 seconds
For complete shorts description and images visit Kickstarter. But buy tickets here!
Horror Boobs and Nitehawk present midnite screenings of AMERICA’S DEADLIEST HOME VIDEO.
The story of Doug (Danny Bonaduce), a home video enthusiast who hits the road with his video camera after catching his wife having an affair. While making a video journal of his travels, he inadvertently records the Clint Dryer gang – three felons on the lam – pushing their getaway car over a cliff. The gang abducts him and forces him to videotape their crime spree as they rob and murder their way from town to town. The gang’s leader, Clint (Mick Wynhoff), becomes more daring and sadistic for the camera, and a dangerous relationship forms between his girlfriend, Gloria (Melora Walters) and Doug. Seen entirely through the eyes of Doug’s video camera, America’s Deadliest Home Video draws the viewer into a dark world of violence and terror.
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Then join comedian Kevin Maher as he explores some of the strangest depictions of pop culture’s greatest villain: Lucifer. It’s a two-hour video variety show filled with Satanic Panic, Deals with the Devil and Satanimation in 80’s cartoons.
Co-hosted by returning favorites:
Tenebrous Kate (writer & illustrator, HERETICAL SEXTS, SLUTIST and HEATHEN HARVEST)
Paul Murphy (filmmaker, RED OBSESSION)
Plus special guests:
Lucien Greaves (co-founder of The Satanic Temple)
Landis Darling (burlesque performer)
A London reporter has the scoop on the end of the world in the British science-fiction classic THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE.
Peter Stenning is a depressed British reporter who gets by with the help of his friend, veteran journalist Bill Maguire. Along with weather forecaster Jeannie Craig, they discover that the simultaneous nuclear explosions set off by the United States and Russia have drastically altered the earth’s rotation. Fires and earthquakes ravage cities all over the world, and chaos and sickness descend upon the frightened survivors as they try to put the planet back on its axis. Directed and co-written by Val Guest (The Quatermass Experiment), The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a clever work of speculative fiction that, like the other films in our series, reveals a terrifyingly real post-apocalyptic existence.
Part of Nitehawk’s May THE WASTE LAND brunch and midnite series.
Nitehawk presents a special screening of FAULTS featuring an introduction by director Riley Stearns and a Q&A with Stearns and lead actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is under the grip of a mysterious cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents set out to recruit Ansel Roth (Leland Orser), one of the world’s foremost authorities on cults and mind control. But Ansel’s specialty, deprogramming cult members and returning them to their families, is not an exact science, and a series of financial setbacks has left him in debt to his manager. Ansel warns Claire’s parents that his deprogramming methods are risky and expensive, but they agree to hire him to kidnap and deprogram their daughter. Claire quickly reveals herself to be a formidable challenge. Her belief is unshakeable and her logic is undeniable. A battle of wits develops between the two as they delve deeper and deeper into each other’s minds.
MUSIC DRIVEN presents THE NEW BREED COMPILATION documentary.
Wednesday, March 30: Q&A with Djinji Brown, Freddy Alva, Orlando Arce, & John Woods. Moderated by Tony Rettman.
Saturday, April 2: Q&A with Chaka Malik, Freddy Alva, Orlando Arce, & John Woods. Moderated by Tony Rettman.
Saturday, April 3: Q&A with Freddy Alva, John Woods, Orlando Arce & Joe Songco (Outburst). Moderated by author Anthony Pappalardo
The New Breed Documentary chronicles a cassette compilation put out by Freddy Alva and Chaka Malik in 1989. New York Hardcore was undergoing a transition at the end of the 80s and this generational shift was exemplified by the bands that were featured on the compilation. The story of the tape is at heart the story of NYC and kids that grew up in its five boroughs as well as related outposts in Long Island/Yonkers. A unique set of social/economic circumstances during the 70s and 80s forged the individuals that went on to make up the New York Hardcore scene. This full length documentary profiles band members/fanzine editors/record label heads and fans that made up this vibrant scene with narration by NYHC book author Tony Rettman. It’s unheard of for a feature film to focus on an outdated analog format like a cassette compilation but it is through the eyes of these individuals that a spotlight is shined onto those tumultuous times and what is ultimately a tribute to a bygone era.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA and ART SEEN time travel with Jean Cocteau’s TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS and a live original score by PARLOR WALLS.
In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. With an eclectic cast that includes Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre Leáud, Jean Marais and Yul Brynner, Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament de Orphée) brings full circle the journey Cocteau began in The Blood of a Poet, an exploration of the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations. – Criterion
Parlor Walls is an experimental group featuring Alyse Lamb (guitar/sounds), Chris Mulligan (drums/keys), Kate Mohanty (sax), and Jason Shelton (clarinet).
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a 35mm screening of GRAND HOTEL in celebration New York Review Books’ revised translation of Vicki Baum’s novel. Introduction by Noah Isenberg.
Booze: THE BERLIN (Bourbon, Barenjäger, Underberg Bitters) – $10
Books: Copies of GRAND HOTEL will be for sale days before release!
In the great 1932 screen drama, Grand Hotel, based on the novel by Vicki Baum, the glitz and glitter of Berlin’s opulent Grand Hotel comes alive with the personal stories of its guests and employees. Set in a single day in Berlin’s Grand Hotel, jewel thief Baron Felix von Geigern (John Barrymore) covets both prima ballerina Grusinskaya’s (Greta Garbo) jewels and the beautiful Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), who is the mistress of the Preysing (Wallace Beery), boss to the terminally ill Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore). In just 24 hours, the lives of these people will change forever in this Hollywood classic and winner of the “Best Picture” Academy Award.
Featuring an introduction by Noah Isenberg, the New York Review Books’ revised translation of Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel is officially released on June 7. Isenberg is director of screen studies at the New School and the author, most recently, of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (California, 2014). His new book, We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie, is due out from W.W. Norton in 2017.
This June – a rarity un-earthed! A prize catch worth the fight to finally land! THE DEUCE Boys turn up the temperature when it gets to be 92 IN THE SHADE, at that rat-trap known as the ANCO Theatre – where it screened – un-advertised – for one week only in 1976!! Perfect for the sweat-sticky seats of Summer – keep your cool if you can – this one is 100% HOT! Don’t let it slip through your fingers!
Plus: Prizes and surprises, a Fernet-Branca sponsored after-party, and music by Maestro Jeff! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
THE DEUCE heats it up with the rarely – pretty much NEVER – screened Florida fishing face-off fun of 92 IN THE SHADE! Delicious dark comedy set amongst the kooks of sun-bleached Key West … Flip-floppin’ blue-blood bum Peter Fonda bungles his way into treacherous territory when he decides to take up the charter trophy fishing guide biz against bonkers boat captains Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton … Tenuous friendships and tensions in the Tropical heat! A temptress in a tutu! Rich in ribald dialogue and raucous raconteuring … With a cast that can’t be beat! The sole directorial effort of cult hero/author Thomas McGuane – adapted from his own 1973 National Book Award winning novel – mining the minutiae of Eastern Seaboard eccentricities and mannerisms with maniacal precision and pointed poeticism … Languid, laid-back, and looney as they come – 92 IN THE SHADE was “dumped” in Times Square’s most decrepit depot – the Anco – by a studio too stumped to know what to do with it – and it’s a trip you won’t want to miss! Did you look at that cast list?!? What else would you need?!?
Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker in BORN TO BE BLUE.
In Born to Be Blue, the tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up, his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes in on Baker’s life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo). Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke’s virtuoso performance, Born to Be Blue unfolds with all the stylistic brio and improvisatory genius of great jazz.
