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Celebrate the birthday of St. Louis' favorite son with a weekend of events devoted to Vincent Price, hosted by his daughter and biographer, Victoria Price! Before legendary actor Vincent Price hit the silver screen he spent his childhood growing up…
“One of the great science-fiction films of all time...combines good drama with great special effects” -Austin Chronicle MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. Forbidden Planet is the…
The Babysitter’s Seduction revolves around Michelle Winston, a high school babysitter. When the mother of the family she babysits for unexpectedly dies, Michelle is asked to continue caring for the children. However, she becomes gradually entangled in a web of deceit…
Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a particularly excellent chance we can get you into the 9 pm show! It’s DRINKOLAS…
"Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's hallucinatory meditation on human embodiment, celebrity, and, uh, John Malkovich remains the ultimate marriage of '90s music-video aesthetics and absurdist narrative storytelling." -The Ringer Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically,…
It's a sick, sad world, and Daria Morgendorfer is just trying to live in it without losing her integrity (or her mind). Grab a cheap drink and sulk with the misanthropic misadventures of Lawndale High's resident cynic and her artsy…
"10 Things I Hate About You is just as delightful—and stylish—25 years later!" -Vogue Transporting Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to a '90s high school, 10 Things I Hate About You may have borrowed the Clueless formula, but it turned…
"One of the 100 best LGBTQ films of all time! A sultry, slowly simmering study of sublimated victimization." -Slant Magazine With its complicated plot, multiple unreliable narrators, and subtle interplay between fantasy and reality, Scott Heim's Mysterious Skin may not…
THE PUBLIC ENEMY: “That’s not a motion picture. It’s beyond a motion picture.” MGM producer Irving Thalberg spoke those words to Warner Brothers’ head of production Darryl F. Zanuck after Zanuck previewed for him the studio’s 1931 release “The Public Enemy.” Thalberg…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT! But I'm A Cheerleader is a campy and colorful queer comedy that satirizes teen conversion therapy. Starring Natasha Lyonne as cheerleader Megan Bloomfield, the film follows Megan as her parents send her to a conversion therapy camp…
“The ideal way to experience South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s awards-garlanded, international box-office smash is with as little prior knowledge as possible. Parasite really is the kind of remarkable experience that makes modern movie-going such a joy.” The Observer A nonstop puzzle box…
Author and film critic Noah Gittell will introduce this screening and talk about his brand-new book Baseball: The Movie. The book will be available for sale on-site from our friends at Left Bank Books, and Noah will be on-hand after…
The third Mondays of the month are KNIFETIME, a cheesy Lifetime-esque movie live roasting event hosted by Ally Spina, a Lifetime movie aficionado. Every month Spina selects a different cable TV movie disaster-piece and live roasts it with a friend…
Silents, Please! STL presented a double feature of films by Tod Browning, film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. THE BLACKBIRDThe Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a bishop by day, but a world-class thief after nightfall. When…
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…
The Pope of Trash! The Prince of Puke! For over half a century, John Waters' name has been synonymous with gleefully bad taste. Always eager to shock with a grin on his face, Waters' love of trash culture has been…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. “One of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” -Variety John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine…
"A lasting vision of heresy and pastoral horror" -Sukhdev Sandhu This astonishing work from Alan Clarke (Scum, Elephant) explores a young man's coming-of-age through the fractured lens of England's pagan past. Originally shown on BBC1 in 1974 and rarely seen…
"A subtle and thrilling love story...at once ardent and rigorous, passionate and philosophical." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish,…
This month, Arkadin celebrates Pride with a double dose of impressionistic quasi-documentaries exploring Black gay identity in the late 1980s. Though experimental in approach, these films are both remarkably approachable, filled with sensuousness, humor, and (at times) righteous fury. Both…
