Nitehawk Cinema FILM FEASTS Presents:
A CHRISTMAS STORY
In this holiday classic, all little Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder B.B. gun but will he shoot his eye out?
For Nitehawk’s December FILM FEASTS event we present everybody’s favorite holiday movie, Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story. This screening will include select delicious beverages paired with a food menu inspired by the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments that inspired the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching the action unfold on-screen!
While Bob Clark holds a special place in our dark hearts for his inventive horror flicks like the scary treat Black Christmas, it’s his contribution to the American canon of holiday classics with A Christmas Story that solidifies him as one of our favorite directors. Quirky family dynamics, a leg lamp, a bunny suit, bullying, swear words and anorexia are all involved in one boy’s quest for a Red Ryder B.B. gun in the 1940s. With such sincerity and deep humor, make a switch from watching this on television this year and see it on the big screen with your Nitehawk family!
MENU (Tickets $75)
Lovely, Beautiful, Glorious Christmas
Chestnut and Cranberry Stuffing Bites
snap ginger liqueur whipped cream
Drink Pairing: Ovaltini
Mrs. Parkers Comfort Food
Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf
yukon gold mashed potatoes, braised red cabbage
Drink Pairing: “Oh Fuuudddggggeee” Chocolate Stout
Chinese Turkey
Roasted Duck Breast
Bumpuses’ egg roll, spiced orange reduction
Drink Pairing: Hot Mulled Wine
Pink Nightmare
Coconut snowball cake
*additional complimentary libations will be served during the after party
Jack Theakson, 35mm film archana archivist and historian presents a retro 35mm film program for the immature of all ages: wacky kiddie show stuff, the oddball and forgotten, Christmas film ephemera and three short features including the Our Gang kids and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The original celluloid movie fun mechanically projected without aid of electronics or digitization. Also presenting a NAUGHTY 35mm SHOW at midnite!
PROGRAM
TRAILERS/SNIPES (25 min) – Various kid-friendly trailers and snipes, including 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.
CHRISTMAS/NEW YEARS GREETINGS (10 min) – various holiday snipes.
OUR GANG SHORT TBA (20 min)
CH. 1 of THE IRON CLAW (25 min) – Spooky doings in this 1941 serial chapter, where a fortune of gold is at stake, and the mysterious “Iron Claw” is after it!
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (8 min) – This rare 1948 Technicolor print is the only safety dye-transfer copy of Max Fleischer’s classic short about the famous Reindeer with the light-up nose.
Jack Theakston, film historian and archivist, has been working with classic movies since he was a teenager. First introduced to 16mm collecting at an early age, Mr. Theakston has since become one of the leading authorities on realism technology history in film, including 3-D, widescreen, stereophonic sound and color. Mr. Theakston has produced a number of special features for classic films on DVD, mounted numerous film festivals in both Los Angeles and New York, and currently manages the Capitol Theatre in Rome, NY, a venue that specializes in running classic films in 35mm.
Part of Nitehawk’s Naughty and Nice December program.
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Penned by the beloved John Hughes and starring a young precious Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone shows how resourceful a little kid can be when left alone… with stupid burglars. When his large family forgets him at home, amid a frenzy departing for a Parisian vacation, Culkin’s Kevin McCallister initially has a blast on his own, ordering pizza and learning how to shave. But he quickly turns into a mini-MacGyver when confronted by two idiotic criminals. With booby-traps galore, the resourceful youngster cleverly outsmarts the bickering thieves at every turn while his mother figures out how to get back home.
Nitehawk Cinema FILM FEASTS Presents:
“Annie Hall” with Brooklyn Brewery
The relationship between Brooklyn-born comedian Alvy Singer and ditsy Annie Hall in chronicled in Woody Allen’s classic New York romantic film, Annie Hall.
For Nitehawk’s November FILM FEASTS event that’s also part of our THX BKLYN celebration, we’ve teamed up with Brooklyn Brewery to present Annie Hall. This screening will include select delicious Brooklyn Brewing Company drafts paired with a food menu inspired by the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments that inspired the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching the action unfold on-screen!
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.
MENU (Tickets $65)
Coney Island Special
roasted tomato bisque, baked clams
Beer pairing: Brooklyn Sorachi Ace
Dinner at Katzs
pastrami, caraway sauerkraut, gruyere sauce, fingerling crisps,
Beer pairing: Winter is Coming
Duane’s Car Crash Monologue
Solo Beer: Brooklyn Blast!
Coke
powdered sugar doughnut holes, coca-cola custard
Beer: Brooklyn Monster Ale 2009
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A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as “I’ll Take You There”, “Brown Sugar”, and “When a Man Loves a Woman”.
Muscle Shoals a place filled with magic and music, legend and folklore, where the river is inhabited by a Native American spirit who has lured some of the greatest Rock and Roll and Soul legends of all time, and drawn from them some of the most uplifting, defiant, and important music ever created. In Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music runs through the hills, the river, and the spirit of the people. It is a place where, even before the Civil Rights Movement really took shape, the color of your skin didn’t matter inside the studio.
Nitehawk’s annual Halloween nite Live Sound Cinema event returns this year with a presentation of Phantom of the Opera featuring a live score by Black Lodge!
Ghosts! Deaths! Romance! The man of a thousand faces, Lon Chaney, stars in this 1925 classic American silent film in which a mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. Adapted from Gaston Leroux’s novel of the same name, the Phantom haunts the Paris Opera House, murdering those who stand in the way of the women he loves becoming a star. The movie remains most famous for Chaney’s intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film’s premiere. Just like every other year, there’s no better way to kick off your Halloween nite than with Nitehawk and our spooky silent films!
Black Lodge, lead by guitarist/composer Geoff Gersh, is a collective of black metal inspired musicians who re-score films then perform live to the film.
Part of the VICE Presents: The Film Foundation Screening Series at Nitehawk Cinema. A New Englander heads out the Old West where he becomes involved in a territory dispute involving two hot-tempered families. Recorded intro by Joe Lindner!
Land, family, romance, and violent conflict resolution: these are the essentials for the American country-western genre and they are explored in epic proportions in William Wyler’s The Big County. Including an all-star cast, The Big Country tells of a retired and wealthy sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) who arrives in the immensely vast landscape of the west to marry fiancee Pat Terrill (Carroll Baker). His way of life is certainly foreign to those on the ranch which, naturally, extends to the locals such as the cocksure foreman Steve Leech (Charlon Heston) who take a strong dislike to him. In addition to being a fish out of water, he finds his future family-in-law helmed by Major Henry Terrill (Burl Ives) involved in a civil war over water right for their cattle. Although McKay distances himself from the drama at the home of schoolmarm Julia Maragon (Jean Simmons) he finds himself compelled to action when she’s kidnapped over the continuous land wars.
Charlton Heston said, “America was made for Westerns,” and like all good westerns this film confronts the violence and the greed upon which our great nation was formed. Amongst the backdrop of composer Jerome Moross’ score, The Big Country is as big, wide, and colorful as America itself.
*A portion of each ticket sale goes towards The Film Foundation. Tickets also include complimentary Larceny Bourbon drinks at a pre-party in Nitehawk’s downstairs bar starting at 8pm!
THE BIG COUNTRY (1958, dir. William Wyler)
Restored by the Academy Film Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
Print courtesy of The Film Foundation Conservation Collection at the Academy Film Archive and Park Circus Limited.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry
Legend is a magical adventure that plays on the balance of the universe (good versus evil, life versus death, heaven versus hell). When innocent Princess Lili approaches two of the last unicorns, she inadvertently becomes a pawn for the devil. With their demise, the Lord of Darkness (yay Tim Curry), is able to spread his evil across the land. But another innocent must fight the darkness from descending onto his world and that comes in the form of Tom Cruise as a forest boy (in a role that comes only one year before the release of Top Gun).
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond
While Stephen Hawking searches for black holes in the universe, a young boy discovers a time hole in his very own wardrobe! Through this opening, a band of dwarves enter into his life while escaping their evil master, The Supreme Being, taking him through Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 20th century in search of treasure to steal. A philosophical endeavor while also an enduring children’s film favorite, and a truly lovely bizarre one at that, Time Bandits tackles forces of good versus evil in the realm of the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Part nerdy and a little bit cool, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a regular teenager living in the mid-1980s. His Dad is wimpy, mother disaffected, siblings lazy and he dreams of being a rock star. But as complicated as his young life is, when his mad scientist friend Dr. Emmett Brown (the zany Christopher Lloyd) accidentally sends Marty back to the 1950s, things get really weird. While lingering in the past he teaches his father to stick up for himself, fights off his mother’s advances, and learns there’s no place like home. The most important task, however, is to ensure his teenage parents fall in love so he can get… Back to the Future!
