Kurt Russell and Adrienne Barbeau are on the hunt for a good four-course meal in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
ONE NITE ONLY: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, 1981)
Nitehawk Cinema
136 Metropolitan Ave. between Berry St. & Wythe Ave.
Wednesday, June 11, $65, 7:30
718-384-3980
www.nitehawkcinema.com
We never really thought of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic, Escape from New York, in which the awesome Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has to rescue the president of the United States (Donald Pleasence) in a postapocalyptic world, as the dinner-and-a-movie kind of thing. But the folks at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema have created their latest Film Feast around the ultracool flick, which also stars Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and the voice of Jamie Lee Curtis. Hungry now? On June 11, Nitehawk will serve up a four-course pairing dinner with libations from Greenport Harbor Brewing Co. while screening the film. Up first are No Escape Oysters (Kumamoto and Otter Cove oysters, lemon, Asian mignonette) with Greenport Summer Ale, followed by the Twin Tower Dogs (smoked all-beef dog, pineapple relish, and garlic lemon sauce on a potato roll) and Greenport Harbor Pale Ale. Next is Duke’s Deep Dish (house-made marinara, roasted wild mushrooms, Italian sausage, and mozzarella) accompanied by Greenport Cuvaison. And for dessert, Ox Baker’s Finisher joins peanut-butter cheesecake with chocolate ganache and a pretzel crust alongside Greenport Black Duck Porter, followed by an after-party. Thankfully, presidential flesh is not on the menu. (“The president is dead, you got that?” Snake says at one point. “Somebody’s had him for dinner!”) We dare California to come up with a better feast for the not nearly as good sequel, Escape from L.A.