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"Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again." –Entertainment Weekly In this sci-fi epic from director Bong…
"Grotesque and deranged...a vision of human misery, brutality, and ignorance." –Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by…
Something magical must happen in the frozen white north of Finland. They produce incredibly rich, captivating and surprisingly sinister fantasies with apparent ease. On Dec. 12, Arkadin brings you two vastly underseen masterpieces from Suomi, a New Wave snow-globe "Alice…
“The Coen brothers’ snowbound noir is still a work of gleaming brilliance!” –Guardian Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of…
This screening will be introduced by Truman State University professor Bob Mielke, author of THREADS, a study of the film published by Die Die Books. Prof. Mielke's book will be available for purchase at the screening. Upon its 1984 premiere…
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Winner of Best Feature at Salem Horror Fest and an official selection of Midnight Madness at Toronto International Film Festival, this unique found-footage horror film was made in Missouri and will never be on streaming. Filmmakers…
"A well-above-average ho-ho-ho-horror film with a shivery sense of winter weirdland and anarchic ultra-violence...a strong candidate to become a holiday favourite!" -Empire When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas.…
“A MODERN ANIME CLASSIC... a stirring celebration of inclusivity that remains ahead of its time.” -The Daily Beast In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas…
“Brutal, uncompromising... one of the greatest and most unsung of American Christmas movies” -Slant Magazine Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment…
"The perfect holiday rom-com, with just the right amount of Christmas magic...sweet and endearing with a hilarious cast and an excellent love story." -Deseret News The premise of WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING sounds like some dark horror-thriller about obsession—Lucy, a lonely tollbooth…
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
“Turn the claustrophobic spaces and prolonged suffering of Stephen King’s text into an anxious Hitchcockian thriller” -From the Front Row Novelist Paul Sheldon doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. He doesn't remember being…
“Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great, but one of them is perfect, and that one is McCabe & Mrs. Miller." -Roger Ebert This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically…
"A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room...vital, riveting and real." -Telegraph Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and…
"Chilling, mesmerizing, intense...essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema" -Jonathan Rosenbaum This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown…
"Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror." -Slant Magazine Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick's snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and…
