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Presented by long-time STL cult film series STRANGE BREW In anticipation of the new high-profile Dune adaptation coming to theaters in October, Strange Brew takes a look back at David Lynch's controversial adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi tome. Somehow…
"The greatest film of the 21st century!" -BBC Culture Beginning life as a TV pilot, David Lynch's dreamlike masterpiece is a frightening and erotic journey deep into the dangerous netherworld that lies behind Hollywood's bright, shining façade. Wholesome, small-town girl…
"Gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." -Dave Kehr Silents, Please STL presents free silent films at the Arkadin, kicking off with Harold Lloyd's classic college comedy, The Freshman. A massive box-office smash in its…
"An iconic cult classic!" -Consequence of Sound A rollicking blast of punk-rock exuberance, Allan Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School stars The Ramones as the biggest band in the world, mop-topped superstars who soundtrack the antics of bad-girl high-schooler Riff…
RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 23 FREE MOVIE presented by our friends at Fortuna Games! This movie will be a comedy murder mystery based on a beloved board game. Color-coded characters! Funky murder weapons! Multiple endings! Can you guess what it will…
20th anniversary! "One of the best portraits of teen anomie this side of Catcher in the Rye." -Austin Chronicle Adapted from the sardonic graphic novel by cult comics legend Daniel Clowes (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Ghost World is bitter,…
You're going to miss Clueless on the backlot? Ugh, as if!! A modern teen update of the classic Jane Austen novel Emma, Clueless puts a novel spin on the time-honored "it's what's inside that counts" tale. Unlike most high-school fare, the film…
"No high school movie has ever come close to the bloodthirsty wit and sweet-faced nihilism of Heathers." -Entertainment Weekly A more scathing and trenchant teen movie has rarely been made than Heathers. Packaged and sold as a film about a group of…
"Perhaps the defining moment in ’s career-long dedication to lionizing Baltimore’s misfit population" -Nick Schager John Waters's first entrée into mainstream semi-respectability maintains his jubilantly subversive edge. Centered on "pleasantly plump" teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake, in her first screen role),…
The premiere screening of “Seashine The Cabin Sessions” a live performance short film of the band Seashine (Shoegaze/Dreampop) playing 3 songs in and around a cabin in the atmospheric Missouri countryside. The screening will take place at the Arkadin Cinema…
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 just $5.…
"One of the 100 greatest movies of all time!" -Empire At once a searing supernatural shocker and a sensitive portrait of high-school loneliness, Brian De Palma's Carrie shows that for a film to be truly terrifying, it helps if we…