Halloween (1978)
BUY TICKETS NOW With its almost blood-free frights, gutsy heroine, and peerless score, Halloween became the gold standard for the late '70s-'80s teen slasher cycle (as Scream cheekily acknowledged in 1996). Taking full advantage of the widescreen frame (and offscreen space), John Carpenter builds tension through…
DRINKOLAS CAGE: Nic Cage Drinking Game
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesDrinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
HARD BOILED (1992)
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesUniting operatic macho emotion with some of the most exquisitely choreographed gunplay ever filmed, Hard Boiled is the crime thriller as blood-soaked ballet. The last work made by John Woo in his native Hong Kong before a lengthy sojourn in…
NIGHT OF THE LEPUS (1972)
Help us get in the Easter spirit with this notorious camp classic! Watch as a cast of aging Hollywood has-beens (Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley) face off against the most terrifying creatures known to man: GIANT KILLER…
CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN: Film Noir Double Feature: DETOUR (1945) / THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN. ALL THOSE WHO PURCHASED TICKETS IN ADVANCE WILL BE ISSUED REFUNDS. A double shot of shadowy fatalism from two idiosyncratic masters of film noir, this pair of dark-hearted classics of low-budget thrill-making…
Buster Keaton Night: SHERLOCK JR. w/ COPS & THE GOAT
Dubbed one of the 100 greatest films of all-time, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is one of the jewels of American silent comedy. The Great Stone Face plays a lovelorn projectionist who one night dreams that he enters the silver screen,…
NEW JACK CITY (1991)
Propelled by a funky, high-octane hip-hop/R&B soundtrack that landed at number 2 on the Billboard album charts, Mario Van Peebles' debut feature put a fresh spin on classic gangland tales like Scarface and The Godfather by rooting its tale of…
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (4/21)
Nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Drama and Best Director, Promising Young Woman announces first-time director Emerald Fennell as a bold new voice in genre cinema, one able to balance incisive social commentary with deliciously lurid thrills. Putting an…
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (4/23)
Nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Drama and Best Director, Promising Young Woman announces first-time director Emerald Fennell as a bold new voice in genre cinema, one able to balance incisive social commentary with deliciously lurid thrills. Putting an…
THIEF (1981)
Neon lights reflected in rain-soaked Chicago streets quiver to the pulsating rhythms of Tangerine Dream's ethereal synth score in Thief. An atmospheric, ultra-cool crime drama about master jewel thief Frank (James Caan) who agrees to pull a big score to…
CINCO DE MAYO SPECIAL: Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters (1968) — $5
Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a lucha libre smackdown. In this deliciously silly mashup of monster-movie chills and Mexican wrestling thrills, the titular luchadores take on an all-star lineup of classic graveyard fiends, including the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s monster, a…
DRINKOLAS CAGE: A Monthly Nicolas Cage Movie Drinking Game Event — RESCHEDULED FROM 4/28
Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
BLUE VELVET (1986) – Rescheduled from April 10
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesBeneath the bland, white-picket-fence fantasy of suburban America lies an underworld of violence, terror, and incomprehensible wickedness in David Lynch's nightmarish neo-noir. When All-American college kid Jeffrey (Kyle Maclachlan) discovers a severed human ear lying in a field, he becomes…
REAR WINDOW (1954)
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most enduring masterpieces, Rear Window captures better than perhaps any movie ever made the languorous unease of being…
THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019)
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. A weirdo, black-and-white two-hander in which Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe attempt to out-crazy each other as dual “wickies” of a lighthouse…
GREY GARDENS (1975)
Part of Arkadin’s Cooped Up series, spotlighting films that speak to our past year of life under lockdown. In this cult-classic documentary, mother-and-daughter eccentrics Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale (known affectionately as Big Edie and Little Edie)…
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)
“A torrid journey through the subconscious of a little girl lost,” per Slant Magazine’s Ed Gonzalez, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me twists the folksy surrealism of David Lynch’s beloved cult TV series into blistering, nightmarish terror. Widely panned upon…
DRINKOLAS CAGE: A Monthly Nicolas Cage Movie Drinking Game Event (5/26)
Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
PART TIME feat. Q&A with director Stryker Spurlock
World Premiere! Local filmmaker Stryker Spurlock’s debut feature is an abstruse and challenging work that captures with droll black humor the anxious torpor of go-nowhere middle-class life. Set amidst the drab, freeway-clogged suburbia of North St. Louis County, Part Time…