Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
"So fresh, so funny, so charming, it amazes the heart.” – Judith Crist Polly doesn't need much. She's perfectly content to spend her days people-watching, snapping photos and transforming her tiny apartment into a make-shift darkroom. And daydreaming. Boy, does she love…
“An extraordinary piece of filmmaking. Shot over 17 years, it mingles intimate personal moments with visceral concert footage.” - Eye on Film For 17 years, director Marie Losier has followed the trailblazing, provocative, and taboo-shattering career of artist and musician…
“Is this the most powerful protest film ever made? Raw, bracing, visceral and confrontational...feels as vital today as it did back in 1971” - Little White Lies On October 30, 2025, one day after his 90th birthday, legendary British filmmaker…
“Murnau's silent masterpiece contains some of the most glorious visual set-pieces in the history of cinema.” - Chicago Tribune Often considered one of the greatest films ever made—it came in at #11 in the most recent edition of Sight &…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to YOU what we’ll see! 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…
“A deeply hilarious film...This satire of the pharmaceutical industry goes down like a miracle drug. It is as intensely weird and dark as it is full-throated funny.” - The Globe and Mail Forget SNL, Lorne Michaels' greatest gift to comedy…
"A vessel for the brain’s most frightening hallucinations... it one unsettling experience.” - B-Sides & Ballads What is SKINAMARINK? It can't be described, it must be experienced. And the only way to truly immerse yourself in its weird, deeply creepy…
Every January, new batches of old books, music, and films enter the public domain, which makes them free for distribution and reimagining. To celebrate films from 1930 becoming available, WashU is proud to present a FREE screening of Lon Chaney's…
"Kalil Haddad has spent years transforming archives of pleasure into mosaics of pain. The filmmaker’s best-known works—strung together from repurposed fragments of adult films and skin mags—can be tenuously characterized as found-footage horror...this provocative filmmaker shrewdly retools iconographies of desire…
"A beguiling and enveloping tale of the power of the occult and the susceptibility of the human mind to suggestion." - Backseat Mafia No director before or since Jacques Tourneur has so expertly tapped into the eerie power of suggestion. With…