Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

In April 1998, a group of traditional Cuban son musicians who had never played outside their Havana studio performed in Amsterdam, and three months later at Carnegie Hall. Wim Wenders, the internationally applauded German filmmaker, decided to document these musicians, who had gone from being virtually forgotten to world famous. The result was Buena Vista Social Club, a winning celebration of ageless gusto, indomitable spirit and the joy of making music.

Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

Jim Jarmusch is one of America’s leading independent filmmakers, and his movies are often distinguished by their sharp contemporary scores. In this revisionist existential Western, he uses the plangent sounds of Neil Young’s solo electric and acoustic guitars to sublime effect. Young’s expressive music accompanies a wounded William Blake (Johnny Depp) as he is guided further into a wet and forested wilderness by a mysterious Indigenous man, Nobody (Garry Farmer). Unusual, haunting and mesmerizing, “Dead Man” is a both a film and sound piece about transcendence.

Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

In 1967, Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived in California virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his music career, Hendrix exploded at Monterey, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the crowd in one of his best—and last—performances. “Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey,” features the entire sets of these legendary musicians. Filmed and edited by award-winning documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

Between 1972 and 1974, the award-winning independent American documentarian Les Blank kept company with beloved singer/songwriter Leon Russell at Russell’s home and in his recording studio in northeastern Oklahoma. “A Poem is a Naked Person” is a mesmerizing work of rough beauty that the filmmaker himself held from release for 40 years. Made up of astonishing scenes of Russell and his band performing, both in concert and the studio, as well as intimate moments behind the scenes, the film is a moving tribute to a singular artist.

Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

In 1968, Shirley Clarke shot footage of freestyle jazz great Ornette Coleman playing in concert, at home with his son Denardo and with quartet member Charlie Haden. The documentary was not completed until 1983, when Ornette was invited back to his hometown of Fort Worth, where a new arts center, Caravan of Dreams, was to open. Coleman wrote his symphonic masterwork “Skies of America” for the occasion. Its performance by the Fort Worth Orchestra is captured here. “Ornette: Made in America” is a film like no other, a multi-decade musical and biographical portrait of an artist expanding the vernacular and vocabulary of jazz.

Each Wednesday night we screen a music film, playing the audio through our very nice sound system. Diner by the Izakaya serves up hot ramen, and we’ve got high quality beers from the likes of Hudson Valley Brewing and Evil Twin at the bar. A little about the week’s film:

In 1972, Aretha Franklin sang gospel for two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. She was accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir, which was led by Alexander Hamilton and featured singer James Cleveland on piano, Bernard Purdie on drums and Chuck Rainey on bass. Aretha’s father, the Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, cheered her on, and Sydney Pollack, then a young director, filmed the concert. For various reasons, the images and soundtrack from this concert were not “married” until 2011, and Aretha’s “Amazing Grace” was not released until 2018. This film was born a legend.

Free movies out back every Wednesday night. Here’s a bit of background about the film:

In his first starring role, John Travolta travels from Brooklyn to Manhattan to dance up a storm to the music of the Bee Gees.

(If it rains, don’t worry. We’ll show the film indoors.)

Free movies out back every Wednesday night. Here’s a little bit of background about the film:

This 1984 release, constructed by Giorgio Moroder, updates the Silent Era sci-fi classic with a new electronic score featuring songs by Freddie Mercury, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, Jon Anderson, Billy Squier and Cycle V.

(If it rains, don’t worry. We’ll show the film indoors.)

Free movies out back every Wednesday night. Here’s a little bit of background about the film:

What better time to watch this Oscar-winning doc than on the eve of Woodstock’s 50th anniversary? Released one year after the festival, the film follows the historic social and musical adventure from start to finish.

(If it rains, don’t worry. We’ll show the film indoors.)