Nitehawk Cinema Presents Beer, Dinner and a Movie: The Goonies with our partner Captain Lawrence Brewing Company.

The discovery of a treasure map takes a group of young friends called “The Goonies” on wild adventure.

For Nitehawk’s June Beer, Dinner and a Movie, we’ve teamed up with Captain Lawrence Brewing Company to present The Goonies (and that includes a special Nitehawk collaboration beer brewed just for the event). This screening will include select delicious Captain Lawrence 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!

With golf course developers threatening to displace an entire neighborhood, “The Goonies” set out to find hidden treasure in the hopes that they can buy off the construction. They find the map to “One-Eyed” Willy’s hidden pirate fortune but, unfortunately, it’s housed in a cavern underneath the evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons. Traps, pirate ships, and danger awaits! Fortunately “Sloth” (one of the Fratelli brothers) befriends the group and helps them to vast treasures! Goonies never say die!

MENU with Beer Pairings by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company

First Course: Truffle Shuffle
Hen of the Woods and Truffle Arancini, lemon aioli
Beer Pairing: Sunblock

Second Course: Mama Fratelli’s Veal Scallopini
Veal Tongue, Pepsi braised Apples, Marion Berry Demi Glace
Beer Pairing: Golden Delicious American Triple

Third Course: “Baby Ruth” Tamale
Pork, peanut, masa, chocolate mole, savory caramel
Beer Pairing: Sloth*

Fourth Course: Captain Chunk
Fresh Baked Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Peanut butter ice cream
Beer Pairing: St. Vincents Dubbel

*Pilot Beer, brewed by Nitehawk staff especially for this film

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Starring: Cher, Karen Black, Kathy Bates, Sandy Dennis

Based on the play by Ed Graczyk (also directed by Robert Altman), Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is an inventive low budget American classic that reveals the hidden secrets, regrets, and obsessions of women who are reunited after twenty years. Centering around their passion for Jimmy Dean, they meet at a Woolworth’s five and dime just down the road from where Giant was filmed as they promised to do decades before. There’s Mona (Sandy Dennis) who claims to have given birth to James Dean’s child after being an extra on Giant, Sissy (Cher in her breakout dramatic performance) who is a snappy waitress unaware of her sex appeal, and Joanne (Karen Black) who has the most shocking revelation of all. Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean contains a feminist-driven narrative that addresses patriarchy and the changing dynamic of women’s roles during this time period.

Filmed on Super-16 color and then transferred to 35mm, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a theatrical production. The past and present of these women’s lives are represented through the two-way mirror that punctuates the space; one side features them young and naive while the other side shows the present-day unfoldings. This meant that the actors had to precisely navigate that space to render this doubling while viewers must also be agile in processing what happens on screen. 

Starring: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper

Mabel (Gena Rowlands) is a young wife and mother whose increasing mental illness presents a real challenge to her husband Nick (Peter Falk) and their blue collar Italian family. Her madness is subtle; what first appears simply as eccentric and quirky behavior soon delves into increasingly dangerous situations for Mabel. Revealing the range of emotional bursts, it becomes clear in A Woman Under the Influence that Mabel’s actions are a potential danger to her children and that’s when her husband has to make the difficult decision to have her institutionalized.

As with the majority of Cassavetes films, the improvisational style of acting lends a realistic quality and while the instability of the main character remains steady, this method makes the viewer feel as if the film itself could go anywhere. The performances by Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands are nothing short of electrifying. Rowlands is breathtakingly beautiful even in her most painful episodes while Falk’s loving devotion to his wife, even at her ugliest, is palpable. It is unequivocally one of the greatest romances of modern cinema.

Q&A with director Neil Berkeley after the Saturday (July 20) screening.

Beauty is Embarrassing takes audiences into the wildly eclectic creative and personal life of artist Wayne White. Before the documentary, Nitehawk’s Artist Film Club presents two TITMOUSE SHORTS.

If you’ve seen Pee Wee’s Playhouse or Smashing Pumpkins’ video Tonight, Tonight or have walked into an art gallery in the past decade, then chances are you’re familiar with Wayne White. Filmed over a period of two years, the Beauty is Embarrassing documentary takes us into the White’s world: from early success to total overload to his relationship with his family to growing up in the south. Always wholly original and driven to create amazing things, Wayne White’s story is one of true inspiration as is evident from the interviews with fellow animators, gallery dealers, art collectors, elementary school teachers, and his wife.

Playing before Beauty is Embarrassing is Nitehawk’s July ARTIST FILM CLUB featuring two animated shorts from Titmouse Animation Studio: Allison Craig’s Barko (2009) and Mike Roush’s The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl (2009). 

Part of Nitehawk’s Art Seen signature series.

An alcoholic ex-pilot has to help land the plane in this legendary “Airport” series spoof!

This off-the-wall comedy takes the already insane plot from the straight film Airport 1975 to a whole new level. Basically, the entire flight crew takes ill and the only person who can fly the plane is a former pilot/alcoholic (Leslie Nielsen) who is deathly afraid to fly and hates to be called “Shirley”. With deadpan deliveries and cultural spoofing, Airplane! launched a whole new phase of Nielsen’s career and we’re all thankful for that. Singing nuns, sick children, and aging movie stars are on the craziest flight you’ll ever witness on the big screen.

Nitehawk’s got a panic on their hands on the Fourth of July – our annual Fourth of July weekend screening of JAWS is back! Don’t miss our Saturday and Sunday matinees along with an additional screening on Independence Day (2pm)!

Steven Spielberg’s glorious Jaws is the film that defined the blockbuster and has made generations of movie-goers terrified of going into the water. When a giant great white sharks swims into the town of Amityville during the fourth of july holiday and begins munching on vacationers, it sets off a battle on both land and in the sea. The first half of Jaws is the struggle of New Yorker sheriff Brody is get the mayor on board with the idea that a man-eating shark is cause enough to close the beach. The second half is an adventurous boat trip with Brody,marine biologist “city hands” Hopper, and salty fisherman “chalkboard” Quint as they battle the shark on its own surf. In between, you get a lot of intensely scary moments. Trust us, you’ll never forget the first time you see that shark pop out of the water on the big screen!

FOURTH OF JULY FOOD & BEVERAGE SPECIALS
LOBSTER ROLL
Poached lobster, lemon aioli, Old Bay, celery, red onion, house cut fries or salad

LIBERTY DOG 
The Brooklyn Hot Dog Company beef and pork dog wrapped in bacon, beef chili, queso, Martin’s potato roll, house cut fries or salad 

NARRAGANSETT
16 oz Draught 

LIBERTY BELL LEMONADE
Rittenhouse Rye, SNAP Ginger Liqueur, housemade mint lemonade 

BLOOD IN THE WATER
Avua Cachaça, Flor de Caña Silver Rum, lime, pineapple, coconut, falernum, cinnamon syrup, crème de violette, Peychaud’s Bitters 

Part of Nitehawk’s INDEPENDENCE DAY celebration!

Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane

While somewhat light-hearted, Family Plot is still a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock so revealing too much of the plot defeats the whole purpose of experiencing it in the cinema. Still, we will say that Karen Black stars as Fran, part of a kidnapping and jewelry heist duo, who winds up involved in a plot to receive a family inheritance initiated by a faux-psychic/con-artist. As Hitchcock does so well, characters and plots intertwine, providing revealing clues to the audience while the people on-screen still solve the mystery and get the money. Plus, Karen Black personifies the ultimate Hitchcock woman by wearing a blond wig.

Nitehawk’s new signature series ART SEEN launches with Orson Welles’ filmic documentary on fraud and fakery, F for Fake.

There is no other film quite like Orson Welles’ F for Fake. Based in the story of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his infamous biographer Clifford Irving (author of the controversial and fake Howard Hughes biography), this pseudo-documentary is a magic trick all its own. Juxtaposing the real life narratives of these “fakes” with fictional montages featuring Welles, F for Fake is a devious exploration begging the audience to question: what’s real here?

Before the film: our “Artist Film Club” will be screening the video work Untitled #142 (Bob Coe from Wasco) by artist Josh Azzarella. We will also show Emily’s Video by Eva and Franco Mattes that was selected by Nitehawk as part of our partnership with Moving Image Art Fair.

About Art Seen: Nitehawk’s Art Seen is a unique monthly art-focused program showing artist documentaries, the art world in film, and artist-directed features. Screening before each Art Seen film is our “Artist Film Club” where Nitehawk programmers and guest curators present an artist moving image program. Art Seen aims to introduce and revisit some of these fantastic lives lived in the world of art as seen on film.

Starring: Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quintin Adams

The Sandlot is a touching film about a young boy who moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad which of course means new friends, new obstacles, and a new outlook on life. The story is told from the perspective of main character Scotty Smalls as he recounts his first Los Angeles summer in 1962 when he befriended a group of boys who played impromptu baseball in a little spot known as the sandlot. Scotty learns lots of things during the summer, most importantly being how to deal with The Beast, the dog beyond the sandlot who devours home-run baseballs. As many baseball stories imbue, The Sandlot teaches the value and long-lasting value of friendship and teamwork in the formative years. Play Ball!

Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow

Walter Matthau is Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic and former minor league baseball playing tasked with coaching the worst little league team in all of Southern California, The Bears. Comprised of such talents as a near-sighted pitcher, an overweight catcher, and a foul-mouthed shortstop, The Bears need a little help and it comes in the form of Amanda Whurlizer (gasp, a girl!) played by Tatum O’Neal. With a sharp tongue and top-notch pitching skills, she helps the unlikely bunch get into the playoffs. All wrapped up in the politics and community of baseball, the kids in The Bad News Bears act like adults while the adults act like kids and all have a lot of growing up to do. Play Ball!