Starring: Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon

Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Co-hosted by Joe Berger and Jeff Cashvan of THE DEUCE!

The mutant infants are back, and this time, they’ve been exiled!

The third entry of Larry Cohen’s killer baby saga takes the absurd premise to new levels. At a loss for how to deal with the phenomenon of an increasing population of rabid newborns, the government ships them to a remote tropical island that they can have all to themselves. But if you think that is an easy fix, you’ve got something to learn!

Enter Stephen Jarvis (played with gloriously sweaty conviction by Michael Moriarty), the tormented father of one such mutant baby. Years after the infants were banished, a scientific expedition returns to the island to check in on the toddler terrors—and let’s just say… they’re all grown up now. And very cranky.

With Cohen’s signature mix of biting satire, bizarre family drama, and gooey creature effects, Island of the Alive asks the question: Can mutant babies learn to love… or will they just kill everyone instead?

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: Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce

Pre-party in Lo-Res with DJ Tony Presedo

An exciting new wave soundtrack permeates this poignant rags to riches story of a talented and rebellious young singer-songwriter. Hazel O’Connor gives a tour-de-force performance as Kate, the lead singer of the rock group Breaking Glass. Kate’s socialist ideals are juxtaposed to her pragmatic rock manager, Danny (Phil Daniels, Quadrophenia), the streetwise hustler who discovers her and develops her into a star. The film pivots around the struggle for artistic recognition and an energetic singer whose talent and sanity are jeopardized by the music business power structure. O’Connor’s vibrant music—she wrote and performs thirteen songs for the film—is extremely captivating even to the ear uninitiated in new wave music.

Made by writer-director Brian Gibson (What’s Love Got to Do with It), with producers Davina Belling and Clive Parsons (Scum and Gregory’s Girl), on location in London, Breaking Glass is one of the few mainstream films set firmly in the then-nascent punk and new wave milieu. The film captures the excitement, innovation, passion and anger that courses through the music and its surrounding culture. O’Connor’s original soundtrack, produced by longtime David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti, spawned five singles and reached number five on the UK Albums Chart. Supporting O’Connor and Daniels are Jonathan Pryce (Brazil) as the band’s junkie saxophonist, Mark Wingett (Quadrophenia) on guitar and Jon Finch (Hitchcock’s Frenzy) as the powerful music producer who takes Kate to superstardom. Stephen Goldblatt’s (Outland) scope cinematography grants the film an appropriately epic quality. Now, for the first time in North America, Breaking Glass appears in its original, longer UK cut, in a new restoration created from archival film elements.

Before the movie:
Night Flight – Ozzy Osbourne Supercut (2025, 15 Mins)
It’s Ozzymania, Night Flight-style, in this quick-cut tribute featuring moments from Night Flight’s iconic ’80s interviews with Ozzy, as well as performance footage and Ozzy-flavored cult films including Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (1963), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and more. Edited by John Mark Lapham

4K restoration

Eleanor Coppola films her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s trials as he films Apocalypse Now, capturing the real world difficulties that complicate the filmmaking process.

“In 1976, Eleanor Coppola shot behind-the-scenes footage of Apocalypse Now on 16mm. For the first time, we decided to return to all original sources and scan elements in 4K for this new release. What everyone has seen over the last 30 years has been three to four generations removed from the source elements. Additionally, we utilized the 2019 4K restoration of Apocalypse Now for this release, incorporating those elements into the documentary. For any clips pulled from Apocalypse Now and used in the documentary, we maintained the original aspect ratio of 2.40 instead of letterboxing it in a 4×3 frame. Lastly, we remastered the soundtrack and created a new 5.1 mix. The film was restored at American Zoetrope and graded at Roundabout Entertainment in Burbank, California. The director, Fax Bahr, approved the grade.”
– James T. Mockoski, Film Archivist/Restoration Supervisor for American Zoetrope

Starring: Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Madeleine McGraw

As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, the headstrong 15-year-old Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.

Determined to solve the mystery and end the torment for both her and her brother, Gwen persuades Finn to visit the camp during a winter storm. There, she uncovers a shattering intersection between The Grabber and her own family’s history. Together, she and Finn must confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Simon Delaney

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”

Starring: Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroad when a star student levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, threatening to expose a dark secret from her own past.

Starring: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinklage, Juno Temple, Ben Mendelsohn, Uzo Aduba, LaKeith Stanfield

After escaping from prison, former soldier and professional thief Jeffrey Manchester finds a hideout inside a Toys “R” Us, surviving undetected for months while planning his next move. However, when Jeffrey falls for a divorced mom, his double life starts to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.