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This February, FIST CITY presents THE HIDDEN POWER OF DRAGON SABRE—a wildly strange “spin-off” of Louis Cha's serialized, early-60s novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Though this book had been adapted in the late-70s by Shaw Bros, they decided…
You've likely seen SAFETY LAST! -- maybe even THE FRESHMAN or SPEEDY, but have you seen GIRL SHY? Often overlooked in favor of the aforementioned Harold Lloyd gems, GIRL SHY is a fun and quirky romance, complete with awkward glances,…
“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.” -Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing Roger Beebe returns to the road with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances celebrating the 25thanniversary of his first touring…
The Wonder Years’ Danica McKellar is Maddie Monroe, a former newspaper reporter now raising her children in a deceptively bucolic neighborhood - but philandering, Mary Kay parties, and murder abound. And her very own husband could be a "person of interest”!…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an…
This month, our $3 Mystery Movie crosses over with our Offbeat Black Comedies series as we presented a truly outrageous and wonderful horror-fantasy-comedy-musical hybrid that must be experienced to be believed. As jubilant as it is bizarre, this truly singular…
Tickets go on sale January 29 at 8 am.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Join the On Cinema family on March 2 for a LIVE evening of celebration, traditional values, and of course, movie magic. Oscar Fever is here! Hosted by actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, recording artist, self-taught attorney, healer and…
“Single lives, twin beds, and triple bromides in the morning,” is the holy state of matrimony, modern style, according to Sylvia Sidney’s Joan Prentice in 1932’s “Merrily We Go to Hell.” The drama opens with heiress Joan’s meet-cute with alcoholic…
Lifers: A Local H Movie is a hybrid concert film that not only documents the performance but also the communal excitement and experience of a group of fans going to a live rock concert. Starring Chicago (by way of Zion), Illinois' cult…
Due to popular demand, we've added a second chance to see LIFERS with Local H's Scott Lucas! Lifers: A Local H Movie is a hybrid concert film that not only documents the performance but also the communal excitement and experience of a…
This screening is sold out. “A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread.” -Total Film After a devastatingly bad date, suburban everyteen Jay finds herself trapped in a race…
In March, FIST CITY delivers…a low-budget, regional, revenge-o-matic that has never been released on DVD or Blu Ray! THE COURIER OF DEATH was directed and self-financed by Tom Shaw, a porn shop mogul with a desire to make Portland into…
Reteaming actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst (Pandora's Box), DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a wonderfully salacious adaptation of Margarethe Bohme's scintillating novel, in which the naive daughter of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by her father's…
Pete Parisi's dream was to get his St. Louis public access show World Wide Magazine to bigger audiences. Back in 1994, he had a job at local station KPLR channel 11 manning the control boards and cutting to commercials, especially during…
The first annual Amateur Movie Day is an international event dedicated to promoting nonprofessional filmmaking preserved by archives and collectors. Before YouTube, user generated content, and fan films, enthusiastic if self-trained filmmakers were working with friends and by themselves to…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an…
When ten-year-old Eric’s older brother Max drowns, Eric’s mother Briana, takes the death of her favorite son, especially hard and spirals into a dark depression. Eric, already haunted guilt over not saving Max and desperate for attention, begins spending time with the…
