Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
"THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR -- Paul Verhoeven’s deeply crass, catty, naughty, violent nunsploitation saga... lesbian nuns who have sex like veteran porn stars, who fart mid-poop, whose melodramatic acts of betrayal would play beautifully on a daytime soap,…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. See both films for just $13. "There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few…
This film is screening as one half of Arkadin's APRIL SHOWERS DOUBLE FEATURE with classic Hollywood musical Singin' in the Rain. See both films for just $13. "What's so overpoweringly beautiful about The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is that it matches…
Presented by the St. Louis chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, this free May Day screening will feature a discussion on the issues of organized labor raised by the film. During the blacklist, a number of filmmakers decided to band…
“Over the Edge pretty much defined my whole personality. It was really cool. Total anarchy.” - Kurt Cobain Originally pitched as “Rebel Without A Cause 1979,” director Jonathan Kaplan’s Over The Edge is the definitive portrait of late 20th century…
"A masterpiece...original and triumphant...Bergman’s film is profoundly upsetting, at moments terrifying. It relates the horror of the dissolution of personality. And it depicts the complementary horror of the theft (whether voluntary or involuntary is left unclear) of personality." -Susan Sontag…
Drink specials! Music videos! Hangout vibes on Cinco de Mayo! Come and chill out with some music videos on the big screen. Make a request, and we'll show whatever you're feeling! Just like Carson Daly used to do back in…
"Not only one of the greatest anime movies ever made, it is also one of the best science-fiction films of all time... The story of an artificial intelligence that evolves to such an extent that it demands to be treated as a…
"Just about the greatest thriller to ever turn a moviegoer’s knuckles white, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear is to nail-biter cinema what Raymond Chandler is to detective fiction: pretty damn essential." -Chris Barsanti In a squalid South American oil town, four…
"A defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history." -Sam Adams, The Dissolve William Friedkin's hothouse remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece of suspense, The Wages of Fear, the misleadingly-titled Sorcerer is…
"Tarkovsky stages his philosophical saga in the 'real world', and the ambiguities and field-tension he generates within that quite literally magical space makes us more aware, makes every detail of the landscape important. It makes the surroundings vivid. Soon we…
Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up! Is this beautifully staged and shot Cecil B. DeMille romantic comedy, Leila Porter (Gloria Swanson) has grown tired of her husband James Denby Porter, the glue king, as she is romantic but…
"The most brilliant establishing shot in film history—a shot that establishes not only place and main characters in its continuous movement over several city blocks, but also the film’s theme (crossing boundaries), spatial metaphors, and peculiar bolero rhythm. Made in…
Experience a double feature from the depths of body-horror hell with Shinya Tsukamoto’s ferocious, frenetic, claustrophobic, techno-tronic Eraserhead riffs, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. Two films for just 10 bucks! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN Virtually absent…
"Before inspiring all of the catchy musical numbers, Corman's film remains an absurd, slapstick comedy with a sharp mix of stark depression... The movie remains shockingly entertaining sixty years later." -Danny Anderson, Film Inquiry Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot…
"Incredibly campy and absurd, filled with fan-favorite show tunes such as 'Suddenly Seymour' as well as a delightfully deranged performance by Steve Martin as a sadistic dentist in the aptly named 'Dentist!' and other equally freaky feats of off-beat musical excellence." -Eleanor Burnard,…
A night celebrating everyone’s favorite perpetually disheveled yet quietly brilliant detective: Lt. Columbo (played to the hilt by the lovable Peter Falk)! In addition to showing a classic episode on our big screen, we'll have drink specials, Columbo-themed cocktails, and…
Come decked out in your most elegant wares (or not!) and enjoy some delectable cocktails on special as we transport back to the hard-partying high-society milieu depicted in the classic comedy caper The Thin Man! Driven by the sparkling chemistry…
Got the box office blues? Counter Program is your once monthly dose of arthouse, cult, or world cinema to fight your malady of the mainstream. When drag racing goes cross-country, nothing matters more than (Sister Sledge’s) “We Are Family.” The…
"Akira Kurosawa’s seminal gangster/samurai fable Yojimbo is just as important a landmark in the director’s career—if not for its devilish hybrid of styles, inversion of genre conventions, and sly political commentary, then certainly for sheer entertainment value. Something of a textbook example…
