19
Mar/17

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA FILM FEAST

19
Mar/17
Kurt Russell can’t believe the feast that awaits at Nitehawk Cinema

Kurt Russell can’t believe the feast that awaits at Nitehawk Cinema

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, 1986)
Nitehawk Cinema
136 Metropolitan Ave. between Berry St. & Wythe Ave.
Tuesday, April 18, and Wednesday, April 19, $75, 7:15
718-384-3980
www.nitehawkcinema.com

When Nitehawk Cinema first announced that John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China would be its next Film Feast presentation on April 18, in which a special movie-related menu accompanies the screening, tickets sold out in an hour. But there are still a few seats left for an added show on April 19. In the fourth collaboration between Carpenter and Kurt Russell (Elvis, Escape from New York, The Thing), Russell stars as truckdriver Jack Burton, who gets into a bit of trouble with the Lords of Death as well as green-eyed Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall) and the evil and mysterious David Lo Pan (James Hong). The cult fave cemented Carpenter’s future as an indie king; he said, “The experience [of making Big Trouble] was the reason I stopped making movies for the Hollywood studios. I won’t work for them again. I think Big Trouble is a wonderful film, and I’m very proud of it. But the reception it received, and the reasons for that reception, were too much for me to deal with. I’m too old for that sort of bullshit.” The Nitehawk screening will feature food by one of Chinatown’s best, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, paired with beers from Lagunitas. The five-course meal, each timed to a specific scene, consists of steamed chicken and shrimp siu mai with Lagunitas IPA, Taiwanese fried pork chop sandwich with Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale, fiery dank shank lo mein with Lagunitas Waldo Triple IPA, veggie broth with Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Wheat Ale, and fried matcha sesame balls with Lagunitas Aunt Sally Sour Ale. As Burton says in the film, “Everybody relax; I’m here.”