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“A brightly entertaining blend of humor and heartbreak” -Rolling Stone Celebrate Arkadin's Hanksgiving with a film written by, directed by and co-starring the one-and only Tom Hanks. THAT THING YOU DO! is a high-energy comedy about fame and friendship which…
“The right kind of fowl humor... You can’t quit this one cold turkey!” -Film Inquiry A demonic turkey is unleashed...and he's one fowl-mouthed bastard! Five college kids: a jock, a good girl, an overweight red-neck, a slut, and a nerd…
“A black comedy classic... by turns exuberant, psychedelic, hilarious and heartbreaking” -Guardian With the idiosyncratic American fable Harold and Maude, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era. Working from a script by Colin Higgins, Ashby…
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and you know what that means: Christmas is inescapable! So let's succumb to the season with a selection of holiday cartoon classics! Down the street, at Gravois, Bevo Winter Lights will be in full force,…
“The film is like a hug from an old friend you haven’t seen in years; it envelops you with warmth and love while acknowledging the bittersweet impermanence of life.” -SNACK Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston),…
“One of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead... I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil.” –Roger Ebert This legendary film from Soviet director…
“The most affecting film about the horror of war I know.” –Susan Sontag The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went…
One of the greatest American movies ever made, “Gold Diggers of 1933” is the rare 1930’s musical that wasn’t made as escapist entertainment from the doldrums of the Great Depression; rather, the Depression is integral to the plot of the…
In Deadly Games aka Dial Code Santa Claus, a lone child must defend his house using strategically placed booby traps from a dangerous home invader on Christmas Eve. Sound familiar? Well, this kid isn't Kevin McCallister. Thomas de Frémont (Alain Lalanne) is a child…
“The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.” -Roger Ebert Arguably the most underrated Stephen King horror adaptation—and featuring career-best performances from Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Martin Sheen—The Dead…
If you love Christmas then why don’t you merry it? Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to…
"Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again." –Entertainment Weekly In this sci-fi epic from director Bong…
"WILL MELT YOU BRAIN...builds and builds and finally unloads on you in its almost pornographic excess. It hits you hard and it keeps hitting you until its finally all over – and you're all the better for it. Highly Recommended…
“Creative, silly, constantly surprising, if better known it would be a major cult movie” -Hefilm Who could possibly resist an insanely groovy mid-1970s East German space opera with an Ennio Morricone-like theme song, a nonstop underground disco where partygoers spritz…
World Wide Magazine was a public access television program that ran in St. Louis from 1986-2001. Throughout the years of his show, producer Pete Parisi would produce and air Christmas specials with his cavalcade of wild characters like Big Daddy, Dump…
"Grotesque and deranged...a vision of human misery, brutality, and ignorance." –Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by…
On Monday December 9th, FIST CITY proudly presents an unusual and action-packed vanity project from obscure stuntman and martial artist, Troy Nikolo Ashford, RAZOR SHARPE. Ashford stars as Justin Sharpe, an aspiring actor who gets in over his head when…
Something magical must happen in the frozen white north of Finland. They produce incredibly rich, captivating and surprisingly sinister fantasies with apparent ease. On Dec. 12, Arkadin brings you two vastly underseen masterpieces from Suomi, a New Wave snow-globe "Alice…
“The Coen brothers’ snowbound noir is still a work of gleaming brilliance!” –Guardian Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of…
This screening will be introduced by Truman State University professor Bob Mielke, author of THREADS, a study of the film published by Die Die Books. Prof. Mielke's book will be available for purchase at the screening. Upon its 1984 premiere…
