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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…
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)…
“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 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…
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…
Almost completely unseen for nearly four decades, horror maestro George A. Romero's "lost" masterpiece finally receives a long-overdue theatrical debut. Shot by George A. Romero between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, THE AMUSEMENT PARK is…
We'll be celebrating two birthdays this night! Our co-owner Sarah's and the late, great, legendary Prince. Can you guess what movie we'll be showing? I bet you can. (Hint: It's a Prince movie.)
Aside from a raised eyebrow at Mitch's (the eyebrow-raising Rock Hudson) involvement with the Hadleys, a dysfunctional Texas oil clan, there's nothing explicitly queer about Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind. However, the first few minutes of this glossy 1956…
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…
Part of Arkadin’s FILMED IN THE LOU series, spotlighting movies made in and around St. Louis In 1953, veteran stick-up man Fred William Bowerman—then one of the FBI’s 10 most wanted criminals—led a heist of Southwest Bank, located at the…
Part of Arkadin’s CENTURY-OLD CINEMA series, spotlighting movies celebrating their 100th anniversary “Arguably Chaplin’s most personal and autobiographical work,” according to biographer Jeffrey Vance, The Kid marked a watershed moment in the legendary silent comedian’s career. Chaplin’s first feature after…
Part of Arkadin’s LYNCH AT 75 series, celebrating the work of filmmaker David Lynch Even by the outlandishly weird standards of David Lynch, Wild at Heart is one crazy, unhinged ride. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO JULY 8 DUE TO RAIN! 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…
25th Anniversary! Mars Attacks! vs. Independence Day: Which 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster with a stacked ensemble cast was better? You decide as we pit these two sci-fi spectaculars against each other just before the Fourth of July. Tickets to both films…
25th Anniversary! Mars Attacks! vs. Independence Day: Which 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster with a stacked ensemble cast was better? You decide as we pit these two sci-fi spectaculars against each other just before the Fourth of July. Tickets to both films…
We are excited to announce the return of beloved cult movie series, Strange Brew. For years, STRANGE BREW was held on the first Wednesday of every month at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. And now, it comes to its new home,…
One of the most popular and widely imitated Spaghetti Westerns to follow in the wake of Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Corbucci's Django is still one of the genre's best, a spare, hard-bitten, mean-spirited shot of pure adrenaline that…
"The greatest film of the 21st century" -BBC Culture Poll Early on in Mulholland Dr., a man sits in a Hollywood greasy spoon, relating a dream to a friend sitting across from him. The dream, he explains, took place in…
Rescheduled from 7/9 due to rain. All tickets honored. Refunds available upon request. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! Kathryn Bigelow's surfboards-and-gunplay action spectacle follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers…
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They…
