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Park Slope Pavilion's Marquee Gets Poetic During Nitehawk Renovation

By Amy Zimmer | July 10, 2017 5:46pm
 The theater is staging movie-themed poems on its theater's marquee.
The theater is staging movie-themed poems on its theater's marquee.
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Nitehawk Cinema

BROOKLYN — As Park Slope residents await the transformation of the rundown Pavilion Theater into the Nitehawk Prospect Park, they may not be able to glimpse the renovations inside, but they are being treated to some fun film-inspired haikus on the building’s marquee.

Over the next few months, Nitehawk Cinema — which is expected to open the new venue at 188 Prospect Park West in winter 2018 — will be spotlighting movie-themed poems curated by the art installation duo known as Saint Flashlight.

Molly Gross and Drew Pisarra, poets devoted to placing verse in public spaces, previously did a haiku project written in black electrician’s tape on the walls of the Crest True Value Hardware in Williamsburg.

They kicked off this latest installation earlier this month, with each poem titled with the name of a movie, according to a spokeswoman for Nitehawk.

The first poems, included in the theater’s blog, include:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

seed from a book not
the screen she cracked it open
under the skylight

Saturday Night Fever

right down to my blood
fast-footed strut this disco
love these teenage feet

She’s Gotta Have It

a woman who loves
Nola Darling likes freedom
at peace with herself

Nitehawk is expected to open its seven-screen, 650-seat theater at the Bartel-Pritchard Square venue, featuring Hollywood releases as well as indie flicks.

It plans to include a similar menu of food and drinks served during movies like at its Williamsburg location, as well as featuring regular daytime screenings for parents with babies.

The space will have two elevators in efforts to modernize the building and make it "as accessible as possible," theater reps said.

Nitehawk also is working with the Prospect Park Alliance on showing four family-friendly movies in the park this summer on Wednesday evenings, starting on July 19 with "The Neverending Story."