Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Kelly Lynch, Tim Curry, Crispin Glover, Matt LeBlanc, LL Cool J, Tom Green, Luke Wilson

A trio of elite private investigators armed with the latest in high-tech tools, high-performance vehicles, martial arts techniques and an array of disguises unleash their state-of-the-art skills on land, sea and air to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice-identification software out of lethal hands. They’re beautiful, they’re brilliant, and they work for Charlie.

Starring: Lina Boudreault, Mari-Lou Gauthier, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas

This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion’s criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.

Starring: Shin’ichirô Miki, Jôji Nakata, Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki

Escaflowne blends romance and fantasy to tell the story of Hitomi Kanzaki, an ordinary high school student whose life has lost all meaning. Feeling at her most desperate, she wishes that she could just disappear into thin air — a wish that is immediately granted when a mysterious man suddenly materializes and catapults her away from Earth. Hitomi is instantly thrust into Gaia, a strange new world ruled by sword and sorcery. In this world she realizes she can make a difference.

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a screening of Sally Potter’s ORLANDO. To make a $10 donation to support the life-saving work of LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf provides a sumptuous framework for Tilda Swinton’s ethereal virtuosity. The drama, spanning four centuries, shows the twists and turns of one fantastic private life that’s formed and deformed by the prerogatives of royal power. In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I—played with quietly gleeful ferocity by Quentin Crisp—elevates the androgynous young man Orlando to a place by her side. Orlando makes his way through the pressure cookers of the seventeenth century’s absolute rule and, in 1700, gets an ambassadorial posting to Constantinople. Lurching ahead by decades and centuries, Orlando never ages but nonetheless changes: emerging as a woman in the eighteenth century, she confronts a new age of aristocratic authority and persecution; brought up to speed in London in the late twentieth century, she still faces the pomp and cultural primacy of the same damned monarchy. Potter’s ironies veer between the blunt and the exquisite, the oblique and the confrontational, exposing the cruel hazards of nature and the perversities of culture alike.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Starring: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Jonathan Winters

In 1930s New York City, The Shadow (Alec Baldwin) battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan (John Lone), who is building an atomic bomb.

Night Owl Video presents a new series celebrating Video Store Gems the way they were meant to be seen, on the BIG screen. For our inaugural screening, we are presenting Russell Mulcahy’s 1994 banger The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle and the imitable Tim Curry on a glorious 35mm print. Part of a cycle of films coming off the heels of Tim Burton’s Batman, The Shadow features outstanding production design, fun performances and a beautiful score by Jerry Goldsmith. As Roger Ebert put it in his review, “If you respond to film noir, if you like dark streets and women with scarlet lips and big fast cars with running boards, the look of this movie will work some kind of magic.”

Expected to be a smash hit, it only grossed $40 million on a $48 million dollar budget, yet the film found an audience on home video and cable throughout the late 90s, and spawned copious merchandise including board games, action figures and a well-regarded pinball machine. Join us in celebrating this unsung pulp classic, with an introduction by Night Owl Video’s Aaron Hamel and a post-screening raffle for a litany of Shadow-bilia!

Show your ticket stub at Night Owl Video (288 Grand Street) for 10% off your next purchase. Death to Streamers, Physical Media Forever!!!

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson, Jared Leto, Sarah Desjardins, Evan Peters, Greta Lee

Mankind encounters AI beings for the first time when a highly sophisticated program, Ares, leaves the digital world for a dangerous mission in the real world.

Starring: Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with a screening of Jill Sprecher’s CLOCKWATCHERS. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“This is a rare film about the way people actually live. It’s about the new world of security cameras, Muzak, cubicle life and hoarding office supplies. “Try not to make too many mistakes,” a new temp worker is told. “These forms are expensive.” When she botches some forms, she throws them out in the ladies’ room to hide her crime. The toilet, indeed, is the only sanctuary in a big office: the refuge, the retreat, the confessional. Only when your underwear is off can you find a space to call your own.

CLOCKWATCHERS was written by two sisters, Jill and Karen Sprecher, and directed by Jill. I don’t have to be psychic to know they’ve worked as office temps. The Coen, Hughes and Wachowski brothers make movies about crime and passion, and so do the Sprecher sisters, but their violence is more brutal and direct, like stealing the precious rubber-band ball of Art, the anal-retentive guy in charge of the office supplies.” —Roger Ebert, May 22, 1998

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006 (Sean Bean), a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from an awesome space weapon that — in one short pulse — could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan’s stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.

Starring: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Janet Leigh

This is the reconstructed 110 minute version originally released in 1998

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies (Joseph Calleia), are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), in jeopardy.

Starring: Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler

In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters (Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso) are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler), the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.