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Urgh! A Playlist War
We combed through the playlist (setlist?) for this weekend’s midnight film Urgh! A Music War (Tickets), and holy shit is it fucking awesome. The Police, Magazine, XTC, Klaus Nomi, Gary Numan, it goes...
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Music & Movies: Velvet Playlist
Velvet Goldmine (1998) Saturday, June 8 & Sunday, June 9; Brunch | Tickets For Velvet Goldmine, director Todd Haynes took chunks of the biographies of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Marc Bolan and the...
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Music & Movies: American Hardcore
The American Hardcore (Tickets) soundtrack is about the best you can get for an introduction to the early-80’s hardcore scene. It features tracks from Bad Brains, D.O.A., Black Flag, Void and several...
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Music & Movies: This is Playlist
Music Driven: This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006) Buy Tickets A portrait of England under Thatcher’s bootheel, Shane Meadows’ This is England is a personal story of a young skinhead headbutting and...
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Wild Style: LEE’s Whole Car Graffiti
Wild Style (1983, Dir. Charlie Ahearn) Buy Tickets The whole-car graffiti of Lower East Side native Lee Quinones is the centerpiece of Charlie Ahearn’s film Wild Style. Lee essentially plays a...
View ArticleVideo: Daniel Johnston performing “I Live My Broken Dreams”
Watch/listen to the incredible Daniel Johnston performing I Live My Broken Dreams on IRS’ “The Cutting Edge” in 1985 at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas. We’re playing the documentary on him, The Devil...
View ArticleTrailer: DONT LOOK BACK (Music Driven)
Trailer: DONT LOOK BACK (Music Driven) from Nitehawk Cinema on Vimeo. Get your tickets here!
View ArticleVideo: Fred Armisen, David Pajo and David Grubbs Perform as “Equality Faction...
Our March 17 screening of Lance Bangs new documentary on the band Slint and the Lousiville music scene, Breadcrumb Trail, was quite the event starting with a surprise performance by “Equality Faction...
View ArticleVideo: Q&A with Todd Phillips after HATED: GG ALLIN AND THE MURDER JUNKIES...
We learned a lot about GG Allin and director Todd Phillips at our Music Driven screening of Phillips’ documentary, Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. Anecdotes include how John Wayne Gacy became...
View ArticleQ&A: BAD BRAINS LIVE with Darryl Jenifer
For our July Music Driven entry, we screened two live films from legendary D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains and invited one of the band’s founding members: bassist Darryl Jenifer to talk it out with Sacha...
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Nitehawk ’94: September at Nitehawk
Every year, we’ve taken a liking to peering back 20 years into the past to see what good stuff we find, and it’s always a treat. 1994, it turns out, was a good year…. well kind of. It was actually a...
View ArticleQ&A: STYLE WARS Producer Henry Chalfant & Guest Writers
On October 7, Nitehawk Cinema and Noisey presented legendary graffiti documentary Style Wars as part of our ongoing Music Driven series. Sacha Jenkins led a Q&A with the film’s producer Henry...
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VIDEO: Remember When El-P and Killer Mike Came to Nitehawk and Nas Debuted a...
To celebrate the release of their dynamite new record, Run the Jewels 2, rappers El-P and Killer Mike held a release party at Nitehawk to answer some questions, and to get drunk while watching The...
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Music and Movies: Kill Your Idols
No Wave can be a tough nut to crack. The genre’s doodly and distant (and saxophoney), but it’s also rhythmic and propulsive. Coming out of New York in the late 1970’s with bands like Lydia Lunch, DNA...
View ArticleQ&A: Director Angela Boatwright Talks LOS PUNKS & L.A.’s Raucous Backyard...
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Nitehawk’s Music Driven series and Mass Appeal screened LOS PUNKS, a documentary on the Los Angeles backyard punk scene. The film’s director, Angela Boatright, came out to...
View ArticleQ&A: Director Bruce Weber & Cinematographer Jeff Preiss on Their Chet Baker...
On Thursday, July 30 Nitehawk’s Music Driven series and Mass Appeal hosted legendary photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber and cinematographer Jeff Preiss for a special 35mm screening of their Chet...
View ArticleQ&A: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION w/ director Penelope Spheeris
On Thursday, November 3, our music-in-film series, Music Driven, invited the great filmmaker Penelope Spheeris to the theater to talk her breakthrough documentary: The Decline of Western Civilization....
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