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"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…
On Monday December 9th, FIST CITY proudly presents an unusual and action-packed vanity project from obscure stuntman and martial artist, Troy Nikolo Ashford, RAZOR SHARPE. Ashford stars as Justin Sharpe, an aspiring actor who gets in over his head when…
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…
Christmas Specials from Hell returns to Arkadin to deeply antagonize you this yuletide season. Get in the holiday spirit by watching some weird, wild, and wretchedly awesome Christmas Specials on the big screen while drinking some cheap drinks from our…
"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 100-minute thrill ride featuring an unhinged Liotta performance full of psycho charmer grace notes...PLUS IT’S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE" -Joe, Letterboxd Snowstorms, long delays, flu germs flying around. No one likes flying during the holidays. But at least there isn't…
“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…
“So cute it’s almost physically painful to watch” -Daniel, Letterboxd Arkadin's Christmas present to you is a FREE screening of a little-known yet aggressively adorable yuletide dinosaur kiddie movie from Japan! Made to capitalize on the success of Jurassic Park,…
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…
“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war…
“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…
“A punk-rock Midsommar...demented, visually lush explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into…
"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…
