This weekend, the Nevada City Film Festival's annual Comedy Nights kicks off April 12-14 at the historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, featuring three nights of live comedy and movies. Once upon a time, NCFF Comedy Nights was held as part of the annual independent film festival and featured stars such as Marc Maron, Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford, Beth Stelling, Brett Gelman, Eric Andre, Nick Kroll, and Natasha Leggero to name a few. , Kyle Kinnan, John Early, and Kate Berlant.
Friday night's Hard Mentality: Local Stand-up Comedy Showdown features local and regional comedians presenting their best material in a fast-paced “battle”, featuring Saturday's headliners Eileen Tu and Ian Lara. The audience will decide the winner who will decide the undercard. . Two and Lala, well-known comedians on the circuit, have appeared on the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, HBO, and Comedy Central, and opened for the likes of Taylor Tomlinson and Patton Oswalt.
The weekend concludes with a special 30th anniversary screening of the cult classic comedy Clerks, co-presented with Onyx Downtown.
Considered a landmark in independent filmmaking, Clerks was directed by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Jay)
This is the directorial debut of Silent Bob Strikes Back, Mall Rats) and depicts a day in the life of two people.
Dante and convenience store clerks named Randall annoy customers, discuss movies, and hang out.
Hockey on the roof of the store. With quirky characters and clever, quotable dialogue, Clerks
The ultimate clarion is calling on lazy people everywhere to come together and do something.
“Clerks is still a quintessential part of 90s independent cinema, and it kicked off Clerks’ career.
“Kevin Smith is one of the most versatile directors and screenwriters of our time,” The Paper wrote.
Movie-like reel. The Hollywood Reporter called it a “wonderfully bad send-up of vulgar Americana.”
Kevin Smith dropped out of film school and was only 23 when he took a clerk to the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. He wrote the screenplay while working at a Quick Stop convenience store in New Jersey. He maxed out his credit card and shot the film in a few hours at his place of work with a few friends on a shoestring budget of $27,000. Miramax bought the film at Sundance, and it went on to gross $3.2 million, igniting the low-budget comedy buddy movie genre and inspiring generations of independent filmmakers. Ta.