Find out the intentions of the USSR’s submarine captain as he head for the United States in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel (the first film adaptation), this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. Equipped with innovative stealth technology, Ramius’ submarine, “Red October,” is virtually invisible. However, when an American sub briefly detects the Russians’ presence, CIA agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) sets out to determine Ramius’ motives, fearing he may launch an attack on the United States.
Part of Nitehawk’s May COLD WAR brunch series.
Rocky Balboa goes to Russia to avenge the death of his friend and make America proud in ROCKY IV. A 35mm presentation!
Rocky IV is an American versus Soviet showdown in the boxing ring! After winning his championship, everyone’s favorite boxer Rocky Balboa is all set to retire and enjoy life with his wife. But after his friend Apollo Creed is killed in the ring by the new Russian boxing sensation Ivan Drago, those plans drastically change. Rocky trains hard once again (in one of the franchise’s best training sequences) and heads to the USSR to avenge the death of his friend in one long, arduous match with Drago. Made while Cold War tensions were high, ROCKY IV shamelessly waves the U.S. flag, but when James Brown sings “Living in America,” you’ll feel like doing the same.
Part of Nitehawk’s INDEPENDENCE DAY celebration!
The Cold War era gets the theatrical spoof treatment in TOP SECRET! A 35mm presentation!
Shhh…The Airplane! crew of Zucker–Abraham-Zucker targets World War II spy and Elvis films (along with nearly every other film genre) in their second spoof feature, Top Secret!. In his debut feature, Val Kilmer stars as the American rock-and-roll idol Nick Rivers who, while on performing in East Germany on a goodwill tour behind the Iron Curtain, falls in love with the daughter of an imprisoned scientist. This leads to his unexpected involvement in an espionage scheme with the French Resistance with Omar Sharif to rescue her father from the German! Cue the gags!
Part of Nitehawk’s May COLD WAR brunch series.
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones
Only Kubrick could make a strange, weird, and brilliant black comedy centering around nuclear weapons in the Cold War era that would still resonate more than fifty years after its initial release. Dr. Strangelove tells the story of an unhinged Air Force general Jack Ripper supercede presidential approval to launch a nuclear bomb over the Soviet Union and the room full of politicians and generals trying to stop a nuclear apocalypse. The thing that makes it great is that it’s a comedy, a jet black comedy. And, as with any Kubrick film, it’s best to just see it on the big screen.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum
Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of two incredible remakes starring Mr. Goldblum. As with its predecessor, the film retains the sense of paranoia as we are shown the horrifying site of the human race being slowly transformed into extinction. Here we have an alien life form from deep space arriving in San Francisco after fleeing their dying planet and, as they begin mutating into other life forms on earth, people begin to wonder what is happening to their friends and family who are now devoid of any familiar characteristics. It seems to be up to Elizabeth Driscoll from the SF health department and her psychiatrist colleague Dr. David Kibner to save the city, or at least themselves and two friends, but you know how bleak these invasion tales go.
Jeff Goldblum forgets his mantra in Woody Allen’s quintessential New York love story ANNIE HALL. A 35mm presentation!
New York neurotic tendencies run rampant in Annie Hall where Woody Allen shows us the beginning, evolvement, and ultimate ending to one couple’s relationship. It’s a deep film with a range of humor (the scenes of Singer’s childhood in Coney Island with his family are particularly funny) that has become a portrait of a 1970s couple who, despite loving each other, can’t make it work. This story, full of laughter and tears, is relatable to any generation and like Allen says, we stick with relationships because, well, we need the eggs.
Jeff Goldblum’s appearance as a Los Angeles cliche at a Hollywood party may be small but it sure is memorable.
Part of Nitehawk’s THE WORKS: JEFF GOLDBLUM (BARELY GOLDBLUM & FULL GOLDBLUM) brunches and midnites throughout May and June!
Starring: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Michael McKean
These dates are out of this world! 1980s SoCal gets spoofed in this aliens-meet-humans campy affair starring Jeff Goldblum. Bright and colorful, Earth Girls Are Easy plays on the shallowness of Los Angeles (I mean, like, the aliens land in the Valley of all places) as the three stranded furry extraterrestrials navigate this strange new land after landing in a backyard pool. Of course there’s also a love story that centers around Goldblum’s alien and engaged manicurist Valerie (played by Geena Davis) who, after shaving him discovers a real hunk. Duh.
Earth Girls Are Easy is a veritable “before they were stars” film: Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Geena Davis, Julie Brown and, of course, Jeff Goldblum!
An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost divine talent in THE NATURAL.
An adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel, The Natural is part of the inspirational baseball film tradition that shows how determination, belief in one’s self, and hard work can produce tremendous rewards. Robert Redford stars as Roy Hobbs, an incredibly talented baseball player who, since childhood, has dreamed of baseball super-stardom and has the goods to back it up. But on his way to achieving his goals, he meets a mysterious and disturbed woman who shatters his goals. Years later, he reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights who, overcoming physical pain and against all odds, defies the nay-sayers to fight for the Knights’ pennant win.
Part of Nitehawk’s April PLAY BALL 3: BASES LOADED series.
Join in as grandfather tells the tale of the best fairytale adventure story ever with kissing, THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. First things first, to the death. When I was your age, television was called books. DEATH FIRST! Your princess is quite a winning creature. A trifle simple, perhaps. Her appeal is undeniable. He’s dead. He can’t talk. Is this a kissing book? As you wish.
Part of Nitehawk’s April ONCE UPON A TIME brunch series.
Starring: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach
The NeverEnding Story is the movie that’s part of everyone’s childhood film watching history! Based on Michael Ende’s novel, the story features a young boy named Bastian who escapes his bullied childhood by entering the fantasy world via a mysterious ancient storybook. Although warned of the book’s potential dangers by the bookshop’s old proprieter, Bastian “borrows” it one day and begins to read it in his school’s attic. He’s immediately drawn into the land of Fantasia where a young warrior named Atreyu and his luckdragon Falkor must stop the dark storm called Nothing from destroying the Childlike Empress and, well, everything else.
