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"A fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the weirdest and best rock movies ever made." -Guardian Hey, hey, it’s the…
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." -Roger…
In the mid-80s, the Philippines and Corazon Aquino’s administration are racked with political violence in the wake of the ousted Marcos regime. Small, decentralized squads of killers are assassinating police and military personnel in coordinated attacks. Multiple filmmakers attempted to…
"Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, from 1975, is also in a way the ultimate film: its representation of depravity may be unsurpassable... Pasolini suggests that the classical values of Western civilization and the ostensibly progressive modernity that’s based on them…
"Bold, inventive and buttocks-out bonkers!" -The Incredible Suit One of the most absolutely nutso films of the 21st century is also one of the best. Pushing the boundaries of cinematic logic, Leos Carax's surrealist comedy-musical-Lynchian psychodrama extravaganza is a hallucinatory epic…
Kids these days don't understand the simple pleasures of gathering your friends around the family PC, loading up AOL, navigating to some weird website, refreshing your flash plug-in, and waiting half and hour to load a 3-minute video of a…
TINA! You fat lard! Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of weirdo millennial cult film NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. Or do whatever you feel like you wanna do! GOSH! We'll have plenty of tots, friendship bracelets, pin the tail on the Liger and glamour…
Looking for a unique hangout vibe this Friday the 13th? Then grab a cheap drink at our bar and head to our backlot for a mix of some of the best, the worst, and the weirdest of fan-made Friday the…
Could the most ridiculed entry in the Friday the 13th franchise secretly be one of the best? Set in the year 2455, Jason X puts Jason Voorhees on a spaceship and launches him into the great beyond...with a gaggle of…
Nieces and nephews, grab your uncles. And uncles, pack up the nieces/ nephews in the car and head over to Arkadin Cinema for a pancake breakfast screening of the John Hughes classic UNCLE BUCK. Tickets include pancakes! "An innocent and…
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer is humane and satirical, horrifying and hilarious." -David Sims, The Atlantic In 2017, the godfather of Greek Weird Wave produced his darkest, strangest film, a horror film with the twisted logic of a Grimm's fairy…
A direct sequel to last month's Knifetime selection, STALKED BY MY DOCTOR: PATIENT'S REVENGE continues the sordid tale of mentally disturbed Dr. Albert Beck (the ubiquitous Eric Roberts) after a jury finds him not guilty of the kidnapping and attempted…
"Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this." -Time Out Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy…
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 aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
Darkly satirical, outrageous, and really fucking funny, Wonder Showzen was too good for this world. "Sesame Street on acid" barely scratches the surface of the depths of surreal strangeness reached by this truly singular comedy creation from John Lee and…
“Unhinged even for Takashi Miike... bloody and ejaculate-stained... reveling in ultraviolence” -Slant Magazine Prepare to descend into the gritty and violent underworld of Takashi Miike’s cult classic, Ichi the Killer. This wild yakuza-horror hybrid has endured as one of the…
Sweaty floors, skinny jeans and angular indie rock. We may not have called it "Indie Sleaze" at the time, but you all know what we're talking about. Relive (or experience for the first time) the half-drunk euphoria of sweatily dancing…
Long talked about before almost anyone outside of Japan had ever seen it, Akira Ogata's Tokyo Cabbageman K recently emerged from the shadows much to the delight of weirdo underground trash cinema aficionados. Taking inspiration from Franz Kafka, Ogata's guerrilla-cinema 8mm…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this screening has been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. Co-director Adrian Anderson will be in person to present POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE as well as a selection of short films. A Q&A will follow the…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this screening has been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. "Brian De Palma at his most extreme... a satire of media obsession and radicalism-as-fashion toys with sitcom hyperbole, on-the-street journalism and bracingly committed satire." -Willamette…
