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“One of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead... I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil.” –Roger Ebert This legendary film from Soviet director…
“The most affecting film about the horror of war I know.” –Susan Sontag The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went…
One of the greatest American movies ever made, “Gold Diggers of 1933” is the rare 1930’s musical that wasn’t made as escapist entertainment from the doldrums of the Great Depression; rather, the Depression is integral to the plot of the…
In Deadly Games aka Dial Code Santa Claus, a lone child must defend his house using strategically placed booby traps from a dangerous home invader on Christmas Eve. Sound familiar? Well, this kid isn't Kevin McCallister. Thomas de Frémont (Alain Lalanne) is a child…
“The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.” -Roger Ebert Arguably the most underrated Stephen King horror adaptation—and featuring career-best performances from Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Martin Sheen—The Dead…
If you love Christmas then why don’t you merry it? Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to…
"Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again." –Entertainment Weekly In this sci-fi epic from director Bong…
"WILL MELT YOU BRAIN...builds and builds and finally unloads on you in its almost pornographic excess. It hits you hard and it keeps hitting you until its finally all over – and you're all the better for it. Highly Recommended…
Who could possibly resist an insanely groovy mid-1970s East German space opera with an Ennio Morricone-like theme song, a nonstop underground disco where partygoers spritz hallucinogenic mouth-spray, scantily clad super-models voguing in an abstract sculpture garden, tons of silver glam-rock…
“Creative, silly, constantly surprising, if better known it would be a major cult movie” -Hefilm Who could possibly resist an insanely groovy mid-1970s East German space opera with an Ennio Morricone-like theme song, a nonstop underground disco where partygoers spritz…
World Wide Magazine was a public access television program that ran in St. Louis from 1986-2001. Throughout the years of his show, producer Pete Parisi would produce and air Christmas specials with his cavalcade of wild characters like Big Daddy, Dump…
"Grotesque and deranged...a vision of human misery, brutality, and ignorance." –Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by…
On Monday December 9th, FIST CITY proudly presents an unusual and action-packed vanity project from obscure stuntman and martial artist, Troy Nikolo Ashford, RAZOR SHARPE. Ashford stars as Justin Sharpe, an aspiring actor who gets in over his head when…
Something magical must happen in the frozen white north of Finland. They produce incredibly rich, captivating and surprisingly sinister fantasies with apparent ease. On Dec. 12, Arkadin brings you two vastly underseen masterpieces from Suomi, a New Wave snow-globe "Alice…
“The Coen brothers’ snowbound noir is still a work of gleaming brilliance!” –Guardian Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of…
This screening will be introduced by Truman State University professor Bob Mielke, author of THREADS, a study of the film published by Die Die Books. Prof. Mielke's book will be available for purchase at the screening. Upon its 1984 premiere…
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Winner of Best Feature at Salem Horror Fest and an official selection of Midnight Madness at Toronto International Film Festival, this unique found-footage horror film was made in Missouri and will never be on streaming. Filmmakers…
Christmas Specials from Hell returns to Arkadin to deeply antagonize you this yuletide season. Get in the holiday spirit by watching some weird, wild, and wretchedly awesome Christmas Specials on the big screen while drinking some cheap drinks from our…
"A well-above-average ho-ho-ho-horror film with a shivery sense of winter weirdland and anarchic ultra-violence...a strong candidate to become a holiday favourite!" -Empire When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas.…
“A 100-minute thrill ride featuring an unhinged Liotta performance full of psycho charmer grace notes...PLUS IT’S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE" -Joe, Letterboxd Snowstorms, long delays, flu germs flying around. No one likes flying during the holidays. But at least there isn't…
“A MODERN ANIME CLASSIC... a stirring celebration of inclusivity that remains ahead of its time.” -The Daily Beast In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas…
“Brutal, uncompromising... one of the greatest and most unsung of American Christmas movies” -Slant Magazine Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment…
"The perfect holiday rom-com, with just the right amount of Christmas magic...sweet and endearing with a hilarious cast and an excellent love story." -Deseret News The premise of WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING sounds like some dark horror-thriller about obsession—Lucy, a lonely tollbooth…
“So cute it’s almost physically painful to watch” -Daniel, Letterboxd Arkadin's Christmas present to you is a FREE screening of a little-known yet aggressively adorable yuletide dinosaur kiddie movie from Japan! Made to capitalize on the success of Jurassic Park,…
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
“Turn the claustrophobic spaces and prolonged suffering of Stephen King’s text into an anxious Hitchcockian thriller” -From the Front Row Novelist Paul Sheldon doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. He doesn't remember being…
“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war…
“Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great, but one of them is perfect, and that one is McCabe & Mrs. Miller." -Roger Ebert This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically…
"A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room...vital, riveting and real." -Telegraph Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and…
“A punk-rock Midsommar...demented, visually lush explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into…
"Chilling, mesmerizing, intense...essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema" -Jonathan Rosenbaum This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown…
"Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror." -Slant Magazine Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick's snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and…