For over six years, and for reasons he can’t explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles. From filmmaker Jeremy Workman (Secret Mall Apartment) and executive producer Jesse Eisenberg, The World Before Your Feet tells the story of one man’s unusual personal quest and the unexpected journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.
Following the film there will be a brief Q&A, then join Matt on a walk through the surrounding neighborhood! The walk isn’t a strenuous hike. Nor is it a guided tour of local sights or highlights. In the spirit of the film, it’s a casual and eye-opening stroll that allows people to re-discover their city and find the beauty hiding in plain sight. The walk is about 2 hours and is casual, relaxed, and convivial.
Hatched
Troll 2 (1990)
Starring: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young, Robert Ormsby, Deborah Reed
When young Joshua (Michael Stephenson) learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael (George Hardy) and Diana (Margo Prey), dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son’s warnings. Guided by his grandfather’s ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis, Sam Worthington
With Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Marc Maron, David Krumholtz, Gaby Hoffmann, Grace Gummer, Jeremy Strong
Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works–a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
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.
The Triplets of Belleville
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.
Escaflowne: The Movie
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.
Orlando
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
The Shadow
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!!!
Tron: Ares
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.
