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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…
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…
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…
"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…
Part of Arkadin's ongoing series showcasing movies filmed in St. Louis, featuring a new short by local filmmaker Mike Gualdoni highlighting STL locations used in the film Set in the crime-ridden future world of 1997, in which Manhattan Island has…
"One of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages." -The Film Stage Mixing the drily ironic wit of Wes Anderson with the most hypnotically beautiful hand-drawn animation this side of Fantastic Planet, Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo is a psychedelic…
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…
“The Greatest Psychedelic Animated Movie Ever Made” – IndieWire One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation. Don't believe us? Check out the trailer below! Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes,…
Presented by long-time STL cult film series STRANGE BREW In anticipation of the new high-profile Dune adaptation coming to theaters in October, Strange Brew takes a look back at David Lynch's controversial adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi tome. Somehow…
"The greatest film of the 21st century!" -BBC Culture Beginning life as a TV pilot, David Lynch's dreamlike masterpiece is a frightening and erotic journey deep into the dangerous netherworld that lies behind Hollywood's bright, shining façade. Wholesome, small-town girl…
"Gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." -Dave Kehr Silents, Please STL presents free silent films at the Arkadin, kicking off with Harold Lloyd's classic college comedy, The Freshman. A massive box-office smash in its…
"An iconic cult classic!" -Consequence of Sound A rollicking blast of punk-rock exuberance, Allan Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School stars The Ramones as the biggest band in the world, mop-topped superstars who soundtrack the antics of bad-girl high-schooler Riff…
RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 23 FREE MOVIE presented by our friends at Fortuna Games! This movie will be a comedy murder mystery based on a beloved board game. Color-coded characters! Funky murder weapons! Multiple endings! Can you guess what it will…
20th anniversary! "One of the best portraits of teen anomie this side of Catcher in the Rye." -Austin Chronicle Adapted from the sardonic graphic novel by cult comics legend Daniel Clowes (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Ghost World is bitter,…
You're going to miss Clueless on the backlot? Ugh, as if!! A modern teen update of the classic Jane Austen novel Emma, Clueless puts a novel spin on the time-honored "it's what's inside that counts" tale. Unlike most high-school fare, the film…
"No high school movie has ever come close to the bloodthirsty wit and sweet-faced nihilism of Heathers." -Entertainment Weekly A more scathing and trenchant teen movie has rarely been made than Heathers. Packaged and sold as a film about a group of…
"Perhaps the defining moment in ’s career-long dedication to lionizing Baltimore’s misfit population" -Nick Schager John Waters's first entrée into mainstream semi-respectability maintains his jubilantly subversive edge. Centered on "pleasantly plump" teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake, in her first screen role),…
The premiere screening of “Seashine The Cabin Sessions” a live performance short film of the band Seashine (Shoegaze/Dreampop) playing 3 songs in and around a cabin in the atmospheric Missouri countryside. The screening will take place at the Arkadin Cinema…
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 just $5.…
"One of the 100 greatest movies of all time!" -Empire At once a searing supernatural shocker and a sensitive portrait of high-school loneliness, Brian De Palma's Carrie shows that for a film to be truly terrifying, it helps if we…
