Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS presents a screening of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING in celebration of Matt Zoller Seitz’s book, MAD MEN CAROUSEL, published by Abrams Books.
A panel discussion with leading television critics Matt Zoller Seitz (author of Mad Men Carousel), Alan Sepinwall (author of The Revolution was Televised), and Emily Nussbaum (TV Critic at The New Yorker) will follow the film. We’ll also have copies of Mad Men Carousel for sale and an inspired Mad Men cocktail!
Before Sex in the City or Mad Men, there was Rona Jaffe’s book, The Best of Everything. Unsurprisingly, Jaffe’s story of three ambitious career girls who share a small apartment and a secretarial jobs at a publishing house on Madison Avenue quickly made its way onto the big screen. Gregg (the actress), April (single and pregnant), and Caroline (a budding editor) all contend with the conflict of professional goals versus marriage/children expectations. In what can be seen as a comparison to Mad Men’s Peggy, Caroline works her way up to be an editor even though she has to deal with boss Amanda Farrow (played to perfection by Joan Crawford). And just like Mad Men, there’s a lot of booze, sex, and ambition. Scandalous!
The Best of Everything was featured in the Mad Men episode What Do Women Want (Season 1/Episode 6).
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents a screening of ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN feating a Q&A with director and composer, Adam Green!
In this retelling of the classic tale, Aladdin is an out of work indie-rock singer living in a video-game-world ruled by a perverted technology-obsessed Sultan. With the help of a magical genie named Mustafa and his 3D printer lamp, Aladdin gets lost and found again in a story about spiritual redemption in the internet age.
Nitehawk’s ART SEEN and frieze magazine present a special New York preview screening of the documentary on British artist David Hockney, HOCKNEY. Program includes screening new frieze videos and an introduction by Evan Moffitt, Assistant Editor at frieze.
Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. This film is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of his life. The film chronicles Hockney’s vast career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation to Hollywood where his lifelong struggle to escape labels (‘queer’, ‘working class’, ‘figurative artist’) was fully realized. The documentary traces the artist’s journey to live the American and Californian dream, yet paradoxically reveals that he never broke ties with the childhood that formed him.
Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright offers a unique view of this unconventional artist who is now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide, and, at 78, is as charismatic as ever, working in the studio seven days a week.
Just in time for the latest blockbuster, Kevin and friends attempt to answer, once and for all, Batman or Superman? Arguments are presented with supporting comics, TV clips and film footage.
With co-host Nick Nadel (IFC.com and MOVIES MY FRIENDS HAVE NEVER SEEN podcast)
Plus, special guests:
Chris Cummins (Den of Geek, Sci Fi Explosion, Uproxx)
Lindsay Ellis (The Mary Sue, Tor.com, Loose Canon)
Bill Scurry (Filmmaker)
Jay Stern (Writer/Director/Producer “The Adventures of Paul & Marian”)
Alexander Zalben (Host of the Nerdist podcast Comic Book Club – Live!)
The Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, opens Oscar weekend at Nitehawk!
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Nitehawk and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) present a special screening of BLUE VINYL: THE WORLD’S FIRST TOXIC COMEDY!
The screening will be followed by Q&A with the co-director, Judith Helfand, and leaders from Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) who will discuss a vinyl plastics Superfund site in Greenpoint, which has contaminated the soil and groundwater with toxic chemicals.
Skeptical of her parents’ decision to “re-side” their Long Island home with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) — the seemingly benign cure-all of suburbia — Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand set out with co-director Daniel B. Gold to discover the truth behind the potentially toxic effects of the material, which is used in building everything from automobiles to computers, medical equipment, and children’s toys. With a tender-hearted agenda and a piece of blue vinyl siding firmly in hand, Helfand and Gold travel to the vinyl-manufacturing capital in Louisiana, enlist the help of a “green” builder in California, and journey as far as Venice, Italy — where 31 executives from a PVC-producing company await trial for manslaughter in a landmark conspiracy case. Unexpectedly taking twists and turns in a filmmaking pursuit that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take, BLUE VINYL is a heartfelt, sobering, and shockingly hilarious exploration of the complex relationship between consumers and industry.
The screening and discussion is presented in partnership with Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG).
Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle. Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers
Controversial upon its release and now a cult favorite, Ginger Snaps is uses the monthly werewolf turn and cravings to be analogous with the strange horror of becoming a woman. Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald and her nearly-sixteen-year-old sister Ginger are both best friends and outcasts. Obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever, they loathe their mind-numbing existence in the suburbs of Bailey Downs. One night the two girls are heading through the woods when Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature and while her wounds heal, something about her is not quite right.
No werewolf program is complete without the ultimate Universal horror classic, THE WOLF MAN.
Although a smattering of werewolf movies preceded it, including 1935’s The Werewolf of London, it’s Lon Chaney’s iconic role for Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man that defined the werewolf in cinema. He plays Larry Talbot, a man visiting Wales to attend his brother’s funeral. While in town, he purchases a silver cane which he uses to kill a wolf who attacks him on the walk home one night. Turns out that it was actually a man, a gypsy’s son who was a werewolf, and now Larry is one too. And so ensues the internal struggle of man versus monster!
Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.
Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at wigs as they appear in movies, TV and real life. From toupee-wearing authority figures to hyper-glamorous drag queens, the evening crosses decades and genres to uncover a real fascination with fake hair.
Plus Special Guests:
Jon Abrams (Editor-in-Chief, Daily Grindhouse)
Tom Blunt (blogger, Word & Film)
Ariel Italic (Nobodies Hosting Drag Race)
Wendy Mays (host of “Pet Cinematary” podcast)
Tanya Smith (co-host of “Read It And Weep” podcast)
Kate Wilkinson (writer, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy; WigWurq.tumblr.com)
Kseniya Yarosh (co-host, Bonnie & Maude podcast)
Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes Spaghetti Western with the Sergio Leone epic, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. The screening features a live pre-show serenade by ARTHUR VINT & ASSOCIATES.
In The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) depicts three gunslingers competing to find fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold. Arguably the most stylish and influential film of the western genre, it is the third and final installment in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy (following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). Clint Eastwood returns as the “Man With No Name,” this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in the American Civil War, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold, hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it.
