Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
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…
"Although the surrealists didn't consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised. Their principal weapon wasn't guns, of course; it was scandal." -Luis Buñuel UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)"A mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and…
“Funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible and relevant. If anybody tries to improve it, they should be sentenced.” -Vincent Canby, The New York Times Mad Men meets Mad Magazine meets complete and utter madness in PUTNEY SWOPE, Robert Downey…
Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a good chance you will be able to get you into the 9 pm show!…
St. Louis Democratic Socialists of America present this FREE screening of Luchino Visconti's sumptuous epic THE LEOPARD. A discussion led by DSA will follow the film. Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates,…
Had a long week at your dead-end job? Time to unwind with some cheap drinks and heavy riffs at our HEAVY METAL THRASHY HOUR! We'll be spinning a wide range of metal music videos, from classics to deep cuts for…
"Still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism" -Guardian When it was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences at Cannes some 30 years ago, Crash caused controversy. Why, you…
POV: You've been transported back to the 1990s, and you find yourself in the club (which is located on the back patio of a tiny cinema, but ignore that). Lasers are strobing around your head, the disco ball is twirling…
“Absolutely awful in every way... You can't help but love it for being so bad” -Collider It is a tender love story. A graphic horror shocker. An urgent ecological warning. And around the world, it became the must-see 'midnight movie'…
“Watching is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” -Martin Scorsese A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In…
Silents, Please! STL and Arkadin Cinema and Bar are gearing up for Silent Movie Day 2024. We will be hosting nearly 3.5 hours of programming, beginning with nearly two hours of shorts from the silent era. These will consist of…
Get an early start on Spooky Season with a balls-out, bug-fuck, absolutely brain-destroying slice of pure uncut horror madness. An inexplicably weird mix of psychedelic imagery, gross-out scares and incomprehensible mythology, this is one of the most notorious works to…
The Love Witch is director Anna Biller's tecnicolor tribute to swinging '60s B-horror flicks. The film stars the radiant Samantha Robinson as Elaine Parks, a modern-day witch who uses "Love Magic" to seduce men. Unfortunately, each spell Elaine casts on her male victims causes…
“A heart-stopping, breathtakingly sumptuous haunted house of a movie that takes off where Dracula and Dante left off and CPR began.” -The Washington Post One Halloween night at Loyola University, five med students embark upon a dangerous game: to cross the…
