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"Marijuana panic won’t die, but REEFER MADNESS will live forever." -Kristin Hunt, Take Two This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of comically bad cinema due to its dated,…
Screening as part of Arkadin's 420 DOUBLE FEATURE along with the hilariously cheesy anti-marijuana propaganda classic Reefer Madness. We'll be giving away prize packs from Mighty Kind and selling munchies courtesy of Mister's Hand Pies. Tickets to Reefer Madness are…
This film is presented by STL’s new series COUNTER PROGRAM, an alternative to the multiplex. Featuring an intro by local film critic Joshua Ray. A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers…
"A poster child for the kind of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore and a beacon of positive masculinity...If you kidnapped a hundred of Hollywood’s top minds and forced them to work around the clock, they could not engineer a more…
Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
The last Thursday of each month, we'll celebrate the life and work of a recently departed actor, filmmaker, cinematographer, composer, or anyone else from the world of cinema who's recently shuffled off this mortal coil with a FREE surprise film…
"THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR -- Paul Verhoeven’s deeply crass, catty, naughty, violent nunsploitation saga... lesbian nuns who have sex like veteran porn stars, who fart mid-poop, whose melodramatic acts of betrayal would play beautifully on a daytime soap,…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. See both films for just $13. "There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with classic Hollywood musical Singin' in the Rain. See both films for just $13. "What's so overpoweringly beautiful about The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is that it matches…
Presented by the St. Louis chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, this free May Day screening will feature a discussion on the issues of organized labor raised by the film. During the blacklist, a number of filmmakers decided to band…
“Over the Edge pretty much defined my whole personality. It was really cool. Total anarchy.” - Kurt Cobain Originally pitched as “Rebel Without A Cause 1979,” director Jonathan Kaplan’s Over The Edge is the definitive portrait of late 20th century…
"A masterpiece...original and triumphant...Bergman’s film is profoundly upsetting, at moments terrifying. It relates the horror of the dissolution of personality. And it depicts the complementary horror of the theft (whether voluntary or involuntary is left unclear) of personality." -Susan Sontag…
Drink specials! Music videos! Hangout vibes on Cinco de Mayo! Come and chill out with some music videos on the big screen. Make a request, and we'll show whatever you're feeling! Just like Carson Daly used to do back in…
"Not only one of the greatest anime movies ever made, it is also one of the best science-fiction films of all time... The story of an artificial intelligence that evolves to such an extent that it demands to be treated as a…
"Just about the greatest thriller to ever turn a moviegoer’s knuckles white, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear is to nail-biter cinema what Raymond Chandler is to detective fiction: pretty damn essential." -Chris Barsanti In a squalid South American oil town, four…
"A defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history." -Sam Adams, The Dissolve William Friedkin's hothouse remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece of suspense, The Wages of Fear, the misleadingly-titled Sorcerer is…
"Tarkovsky stages his philosophical saga in the 'real world', and the ambiguities and field-tension he generates within that quite literally magical space makes us more aware, makes every detail of the landscape important. It makes the surroundings vivid. Soon we…
Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up! Is this beautifully staged and shot Cecil B. DeMille romantic comedy, Leila Porter (Gloria Swanson) has grown tired of her husband James Denby Porter, the glue king, as she is romantic but…
"The most brilliant establishing shot in film history—a shot that establishes not only place and main characters in its continuous movement over several city blocks, but also the film’s theme (crossing boundaries), spatial metaphors, and peculiar bolero rhythm. Made in…
Experience a double feature from the depths of body-horror hell with Shinya Tsukamoto’s ferocious, frenetic, claustrophobic, techno-tronic Eraserhead riffs, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. Two films for just 10 bucks! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN Virtually absent…
