Vince Giordano knows his way around a soundstage.
The leader of New York City’s Grammy-winning band The Nighthawks lives in Brooklyn, but he’s also right at home in Hollywood. The 63-year-old musician has appeared in five Woody Allen movies Café Society, Sweet & Lowdown, Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Mighty Aphrodite as well as in the films The Cotton Club, The Aviator, and Revolutionary Road.
He portrayed a Prohibition Era bandleader in HBO’s hit television series, Boardwalk Empire. The band won a 2012 Grammy for Best Compilation for Visual Media for their CD Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 – Music from the HBO Original Series.
Now the bandleader is the subject of a feature-length documentary about his own life and work, Vince Giordano: There’s a Future in the Past, which made its world premiere on March 5, at the Manchester International Film Festival in England.
Screenings of the documentary are scheduled at New York City’s Cinema Village Theater from Friday through Thursday, Jan. 13-19. The theater is located at 22 E.12th St. (between 5th and University). Daily showtimes are at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 PM, and Giordano and filmmakers Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards will appear at the 7 PM. screenings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $12 and $8 for seniors, students and children; (212) 924-3363; cinemavillage.com.
There’s a Future in the Past
