SURPRISE PRINCE MOVIE
We'll be celebrating two birthdays this night! Our co-owner Sarah's and the late, great, legendary Prince. Can you guess what movie we'll be showing? I bet you can. (Hint: It's a Prince movie.)
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WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956) co-presented with QFest St. Louis
Aside from a raised eyebrow at Mitch's (the eyebrow-raising Rock Hudson) involvement with the Hadleys, a dysfunctional Texas oil clan, there's nothing explicitly queer about Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind. However, the first few minutes of this glossy 1956…
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PART TIME feat. Q&A with director Stryker Spurlock (2nd show added!)
World Premiere! Local filmmaker Stryker Spurlock’s debut feature is an abstruse and challenging work that captures with droll black humor the anxious torpor of go-nowhere middle-class life. Set amidst the drab, freeway-clogged suburbia of North St. Louis County, Part Time…
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) feat. new short film by Mike Gualdoni
Part of Arkadin’s FILMED IN THE LOU series, spotlighting movies made in and around St. Louis In 1953, veteran stick-up man Fred William Bowerman—then one of the FBI’s 10 most wanted criminals—led a heist of Southwest Bank, located at the…
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A Night of Chaplin: THE KID (1921) w/ THE IDLE CLASS (1921)
Part of Arkadin’s CENTURY-OLD CINEMA series, spotlighting movies celebrating their 100th anniversary “Arguably Chaplin’s most personal and autobiographical work,” according to biographer Jeffrey Vance, The Kid marked a watershed moment in the legendary silent comedian’s career. Chaplin’s first feature after…
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WILD AT HEART (1990)
Part of Arkadin’s LYNCH AT 75 series, celebrating the work of filmmaker David Lynch Even by the outlandishly weird standards of David Lynch, Wild at Heart is one crazy, unhinged ride. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes…
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RESCHEDULED DUE TO RAIN – NOW ON 7/8 — Drinkolas Cage: A Monthly Nicolas Cage Movie Drinking Game Event (6/30)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO JULY 8 DUE TO RAIN! 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…
Mars Attacks! (1996)
25th Anniversary! Mars Attacks! vs. Independence Day: Which 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster with a stacked ensemble cast was better? You decide as we pit these two sci-fi spectaculars against each other just before the Fourth of July. Tickets to both films…
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Independence Day (1996)
25th Anniversary! Mars Attacks! vs. Independence Day: Which 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster with a stacked ensemble cast was better? You decide as we pit these two sci-fi spectaculars against each other just before the Fourth of July. Tickets to both films…
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Strange Brew presents THE WIZARD (1989)
We are excited to announce the return of beloved cult movie series, Strange Brew. For years, STRANGE BREW was held on the first Wednesday of every month at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. And now, it comes to its new home,…
Django (1966)
One of the most popular and widely imitated Spaghetti Westerns to follow in the wake of Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Corbucci's Django is still one of the genre's best, a spare, hard-bitten, mean-spirited shot of pure adrenaline that…
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Mulholland Dr. (2001)
"The greatest film of the 21st century" -BBC Culture Poll Early on in Mulholland Dr., a man sits in a Hollywood greasy spoon, relating a dream to a friend sitting across from him. The dream, he explains, took place in…
POINT BREAK (1991) (Rescheduled from 7/9 – tickets still available)
Rescheduled from 7/9 due to rain. All tickets honored. Refunds available upon request. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! Kathryn Bigelow's surfboards-and-gunplay action spectacle follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers…
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They…
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Drunken Master II (1994)
Uncut original version, rarely screened in the U.S. Jackie Chan returns in one of his greatest roles in this action-comedy sequel to his 1978 Hong Kong blockbuster Drunken Master. Wong Fei Hong (Chan) is a young master of the martial…
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DRINKOLAS CAGE: A Monthly Nicolas Cage Movie Drinking Game Event (7/28)
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…
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Strange Brew presents ALTERED STATES (1980)
Purchase tickets to this and four other nights (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Cryptozoo and Son of the White Mare) with our Psychedelic Passport "A film experience that will astound some viewers, outrage others and bore nobody. Laugh with it, scream…
Eraserhead (1977) w/ Asparagus (1979) + Lynch Shorts
Part of Arkadin's Lynch @ 75 series. Purchase tickets to this and four other nights (Altered States, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Cryptozoo, and Son of the White Mare) with our Psychedelic Passport. David Lynch's radical debut feature turns the…
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) + selected shorts
Purchase tickets to this and four other nights (Altered States, Eraserhead, Cryptozoo, and Son of the White Mare) with our Psychedelic Passport. Declared "a masterpiece" by legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed is not only…
Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
"Hands down the best (and most fun) Friday the 13th film!" -Bloody Disgusting What better way to celebrate the only Friday the 13th of 2021 than with the best damn Friday the 13th movie ever made. Mixing self-aware comedy, gothic horror, and…