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Dubbed one of the 100 greatest films of all-time, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is one of the jewels of American silent comedy. The Great Stone Face plays a lovelorn projectionist who one night dreams that he enters the silver screen,…
Propelled by a funky, high-octane hip-hop/R&B soundtrack that landed at number 2 on the Billboard album charts, Mario Van Peebles' debut feature put a fresh spin on classic gangland tales like Scarface and The Godfather by rooting its tale of…
Nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Drama and Best Director, Promising Young Woman announces first-time director Emerald Fennell as a bold new voice in genre cinema, one able to balance incisive social commentary with deliciously lurid thrills. Putting an…
Nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Drama and Best Director, Promising Young Woman announces first-time director Emerald Fennell as a bold new voice in genre cinema, one able to balance incisive social commentary with deliciously lurid thrills. Putting an…
Neon lights reflected in rain-soaked Chicago streets quiver to the pulsating rhythms of Tangerine Dream's ethereal synth score in Thief. An atmospheric, ultra-cool crime drama about master jewel thief Frank (James Caan) who agrees to pull a big score to…
Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a lucha libre smackdown. In this deliciously silly mashup of monster-movie chills and Mexican wrestling thrills, the titular luchadores take on an all-star lineup of classic graveyard fiends, including the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s monster, a…
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…
Beneath the bland, white-picket-fence fantasy of suburban America lies an underworld of violence, terror, and incomprehensible wickedness in David Lynch's nightmarish neo-noir. When All-American college kid Jeffrey (Kyle Maclachlan) discovers a severed human ear lying in a field, he becomes…
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most enduring masterpieces, Rear Window captures better than perhaps any movie ever made the languorous unease of being…
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. A weirdo, black-and-white two-hander in which Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe attempt to out-crazy each other as dual “wickies” of a lighthouse…
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. In this cult-classic documentary, mother-and-daughter eccentrics Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale (known affectionately as Big Edie and Little Edie)…
“A torrid journey through the subconscious of a little girl lost,” per Slant Magazine’s Ed Gonzalez, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me twists the folksy surrealism of David Lynch’s beloved cult TV series into blistering, nightmarish terror. Widely panned upon…
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…
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…
Almost completely unseen for nearly four decades, horror maestro George A. Romero's "lost" masterpiece finally receives a long-overdue theatrical debut. Shot by George A. Romero between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, THE AMUSEMENT PARK is…
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.)
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…
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…
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…
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…
