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"Intense, sexy, and fraught with tension” —Film Threat A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband's colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children. Before leaping…
“Profound, disturbing and beautiful...an anime masterpiece” -Tom Cassidy Created by Hideaki Anno , the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series is one of the most influential animated series of all time. Since its 1995 premiere in Japan, the story of teenager Shinji Ikari…
This screening has been canceled due to the snowstorm. Ticketholders will be refunded. Look out for a reschedule date later this year. “Thrilling and superbly acted...captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel.” -Rotten Tomatoes…
THE BAT is one of the best and most enjoyable examples of the popular old dark house genre. A stylish combination of laughs and thrills, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic had thrilled audiences on stage before it came to the screen…
“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions of…
“THX 1138 feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.” -Washington Post A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present…
"What our nightmares have accustomed us to see in dreams, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange shows us in broad daylight. It is one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema." -London Evening Standard Being the adventures of…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. Starting at 2 pm, Anthony Oliveira, a keeper from the Saint Louis Zoo's Insectarium, will show off moth specimens in the lobby and provide an introductory talk on moths and blacklighting. In the dense forests…
This double feature is co-presented by Cinematic Void, which helps organize January Giallo screenings each year at cinemas around the country. This year, Arkadin pulls on its black gloves and joins the movement with two absolute essentials. See either film…
"THE LOBSTER is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. It’s not quite that suicide, mutilation and murder are treated as jokes, but more…
Love conquers all in FIST CITY this month! It's a tale as old as time...Boy meets Girl (and cat), Boy and Girl run afoul of two corrupt, sleazy cops, Boy and Girl also piss off the yakuza, Boy and Girl…
"A stop-motion masterpiece over 7 years in the making...Stop what you’re doing and watch this beautiful passion project." -Polygon Produced over the course of seven years by self-taught filmmaker Takahide Hori, JUNK HEAD is a lovingly crafted, painstakingly animated stop-motion…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! This month, you’re encouraged (though not required!) to bring a holiday tape! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can…
“A unique and provocative film, ironic, funny, crazy and moving” -Newsweek In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on…
“A+. THE ANIMATRIX is a keeper! it reaches the excitement of Spirited Away...a joy for the animation fan to watch” -The Anime Guide From the creators of The Matrix, this groundbreaking collection of nine short films from seven of the…
“One of the greatest science fiction films of all time... a dazzling combination of radical political messaging, kick-ass action sequences and a brilliant premise.” -Rolling Stone The Wachowskis' mind-bending, bullet-dodging existentialist action movie posits that observable reality is really a…
“A remarkable accomplishment... it only gets better with time!” -USA Today From the ingenious humans at Pixar came the tender-hearted story of…a machine – imbued with so much feeling that it won over audiences in the year of its release,…
This screening is presented by the Washington University Libraries in celebration of Public Domain Day! The film will be projected from a 16mm print. On January 1, 2025, the Marx Brothers enter the public domain with their first feature, THE…
“Taut, powerful... The Handmaid's Tale casts a spell, even as it spells out its dire warning.” -The Seattle Times Before it served as the basis of for the acclaimed Hulu series, Margaret Atwood's seminal feminist dystopian novel was controversially adapted…
“A cold, distant vision of the terrors that might result from a world without print... has a powerful emotional impact” -Richard Schickel, Time Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension…
