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By Tammy Scileppi
for Brooklyn Paper
You’re guaranteed a swingin’ good
time at this jazz fest! You can
Lindy-hop down to Manhattan
Beach this Saturday for the start of
“Hot Summer Nights,” a free monthlong
concert series happening every
Saturday this month.
All concerts at Kingsborough’s
Lighthouse Bandshell 2001 Oriental
Blvd. at Oxford Street in Manhattan
Beach, (718) 368–5596, www.
onstageatkingsborough.org. Saturdays
at 8 p.m. Free.
Swing shift
New York City’s classic big band,
the George Gee Swing Orchestra, will
play its annual post-Independence Day
show of patriotic tunes.
On July 6.
Joint is jumpin’!
Cool cats will dig the eclectic fusion
of French Gypsy jazz, hot swing,
and global tunes produced by Fantine
and the French Horn Collective. Fantine’s
debut album, “I Am Fantine,”
was produced Gloria Estefan (who
also co-wrote two of the songs).
On July 13.
Divine Davina
Be sure to catch Davina and the
Vagabonds, a rollicking quintet playing
the summer series for the second
time. The band will wow listeners with
its rockin’ New Orleans-style charm,
driven home by dueling horn players
and a bayou-thick standup bass.
On July 20.
Wind down
In the mood for some unforgettable
jazz arrangements? This jammin’
nine-piece mini-big band has
got your number! The Dan Pugach
Nonet features a husband-and-wife
pair of Grammy-nominated Brooklynites
— drummer Dan Pugach and
vocalist Nicole Zuraitis.
On July 27.
All that jazz
Hot Summer Nights returns
to On Stage at Kingsborough
Hot out here: Fantine and the French Horn Collective will play the
Hot Summer Nights concert in Manhattan Beach on July 13.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Dude, Keanu believe it’s been 30
years?
Brooklyn’s two Nitehawk cinemas
will celebrate America’s favorite
thespian this month, with a retrospective
of the master actor’s more than
30 years on the big screen. “Keanu
Reeves: The Works,” running from
July 12 to Aug. 4, will showcase works
from throughout the Reeves oeuvre,
including his early roles in the two
“Bill & Ted” slacker comedies and
the surf flick “Point Break,” his iconic
bullet-evading role as Neo in “The Matrix,”
and later works like “Constantine”
and “A Scanner Darkly,” all of
which showcase the actor’s charm and
his apparent inability to age. The series
also celebrates his reputation as a
good guy in an industry often plagued
by scandals, according to Nitehawk’s
director of programming.
“He manages to be in these zeitgeisty
films in every decade, like
‘River’s Edge,’ ‘Point Break,’ ‘The
Matrix, and ‘John Wick,’ and he’s
never been one of these people in the
tabloids that you’re grossed out by,
he’s just done the work,” said Caryn
Coleman. “It felt good to celebrate a
good man in the industry who’s been
in the industry for 30 years.”
Together, the twin movie houses
in Williamsburg and Park Slope will
show more than a dozen features starring
Reeves, and both will serve a
cocktail called “Cool Breeze Over the
Mountains,” which is what “Keanu”
means in Hawaiian.
Another programmer said that he
knew Reeves was special when he
first encountered.
“The first one that I saw ‘Bill
and Ted’s Bogus Journey,’ that was
great, so weird and out there,” said
Kris King.
Here are the showings at both
theaters. Each ticket costs $13. The
showing of “Point Break” on July 16
has already sold out, alas.
“Keanu: The Works” at Nitehawk
Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Ave.,
between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue
in Williamsburg, www.nitehawkcinema.
com/williamsburg).
• “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992).
July 12–13 at midnight.
• “My Own Private Idaho” (1991).
July 13–14 at 11 a.m.
• “A Scanner Darkly” (2006). July
19–20 at midnight.
• “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
July 20–21 at 10:45 a.m.
• “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997).
July 26–27 at midnight.
• “Speed” (1994). July 27–28 at
10:45 a.m.
• “Constantine” (2005). Aug. 3–4
at 11 a.m.
“Keanu: The Works” at Nitehawk
Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West
at 14th Street in Park Slope, www.nitehawkcinema.
com/prospectpark).
• “The Matrix” (1999). July 17 at
7:30 p.m.
• “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”
(1989). July 20 at 10:45 a.m.
• “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey”
(1991). July 21 at 10:45 a.m.
• “River’s Edge” (1987). July 23 at
7:45 p.m.
Whoa!
Nitehawk toasts
30 years of Keanu
He knows kung-fu: Beloved actor Keanu Reeves, seen here deflecting
thousands of bullets, will be the focus of a retrospective
this month at both branches of Nitehawk Cinema.
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