Nitehawk tells the Legend of the 1993 Kung Fu film IRON MONKEY. A 35mm presentation! Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. They call him “Iron Monkey.” Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name and no one knows where he comes from, his heroism has made him a living legend to the people and a wanted man to the powers that be.
Part of Nitehawk’s January THE LEGEND OF 90S KUNG FU midnites.
Get stuffed one more time with Jodie Foster’s Thanksgiving feast, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. A 35mm presentation.
Nitehawk kicks off the holiday season with this should-be holiday classic, Home for the Holidays. Claudia Larson is heading home to Baltimore for yet another chaotic and exasperating family Thanksgiving but this year she has more on her mind than usual. Poor Claudia has just been laid off from her job as an art restorer and her teenager daughter informed her that she’d be having sex with her boyfriend while she was out of town. Add to that a colorful family and an intriguing new visitor, she’s about to kick off the holiday season with a bang. Everything will be alright if they can all duck the flying turkeys!
Part of Nitehawk’s December NITEHAWK SAVES XMAS brunch and midnite series!
Famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they’ve been told to. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram’s exploration of authority and conformity strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. His wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) anchors him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continue to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
Nitehawk’s BOOZE & BOOKS celebrates a Dickensian holiday with a special screening of SCROOGED. Introduction by Todd Lawton, Co-founder of Out of Print.
Nitehawk and Out of Print are hosting a book drive for the screening to benefit The NY Foundling! You can do this two ways:
- Donate at least one new book (appropriate for ages ten and younger) and receive a $25 gift card to Out of Print’s website.
- Donate $15 onsite and get a $25 gift card to Out of Print’s website — 100% of this donation will go to The NY Foundling.
The screening will also have prizes, Out of Print goodies for purchase, and an inspired Dickens eggnog cocktail!
Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol has seen numerous adaptations but none are as darkly strange as the Bill Murray helmed Scrooged. As Frank Moss, he plays a television station executive known as much for his callousness and cruelty as for his money-making programming. This Christmas he’s in for a real life lesson. On the eve (Christmas Eve) of hosting a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol, Moss is visited by three ghosts who, well, you know the story…
Happy Holidays from Booze & Books!
Spend Thanksgiving at Nitehawk with HANNAH AND HER SISTERS. A 35mm presentation!
Punctuated by two Thanksgivings, Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters shows the complex, and often interwoven, romantic relationships of the stable and successful Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her floundering younger sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest). The men in their lives – a cheating husband (Michael Caine), a cranky artist (Max von Sydow), and a hypochondriac (Woody Allen) – only complicate matters. In the first year we see things begin unravel with the family but by the second year we see life on the mend, onwards and upwards. It’s the quintessential Woody Allen view on the dichotomy of life: comedic and tragic.
In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for.
A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, Bridge of Spies tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Nitehawk’s COUNTRY BRUNCHIN’ goes to the future with Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western, SERENITY! These screenings featutre a live pre-show serenade by TATTERS AND RAGS!
Cult status was achieved when Joss Whedon turned his beloved television show Firefly into the feature film Serenity. In Serenity, the crew of Firefly find themselves on an adventure to save one of their own, a super bad ass telepathic young woman, who has as assassin after her. It’s all here: governmental conspiracies, spaceships, monsters, shootouts, and a ship captain with such perfect sarcasm that even Han Solo would be proud. If we were able to swear in Chinese, we’d tell you to not ****ing miss this movie!
This special sci-fi Country Brunchin’ is part of our Sci-Fighters November series!
In 1972, Bobby Fischer faced the Soviet Union in the greatest chess match ever played. On the board he fought the Cold War. In his mind he fought his madness.
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco, Wendell Pierce, Marc Anthony, Penn Jillette
They can crack any code. They can infiltrate any system. But they just hacked the wrong guy and they’re about to pay for it. Made back when the Internet seemed young and dangerous, Hackers is a delicious cocktail of 90s silliness with a stacked cast of young, talented hotties.
Jonny Lee Miller plays the leader of a group of hot shot young hackers who spend their days living by the electron and the switch, causing mayhem on the internet super highway. But when the group accidentally stumbles on a rival hacker’s devious plot to defraud a mineral company, the kids catch the heat and go on the run.
LOVE & MERCY explores the life, love and genius of Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys.
LOVE & MERCY presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
