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"Watching the film...I fell into a reverie, sometimes moved, sometimes amused, sometimes involved in a strange dreamlike way. By not alerting us with the logic of language, silent films can more easily slip us off into the shadows of fantasy."…
#4 on Time Out's list of the 101 greatest action films of all time! The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil…
"Both ridiculously over the top and serenely beautiful, often in the very same shot." -The Stranger Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood, based on the manga series co-created by Kazuo Koike…
“Jim Van Bebber’s shot-on-16mm masterpiece came careening out of Dayton, Ohio in 1988 like a runaway lawnmower blade, setting the standard for all nihilist street-gang movies to follow. Visceral, unspeakably violent, and fearless, Van Bebber could have easily lost his…
It's Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nicolas 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…
Tonight we turn Arkadin into BARKadin! Bring your pooch and join us for a screening of BEST IN SHOW. Doggie ($2) and human ($9) tickets are sold separately. Dogs must be on-leash at all time. You are responsible for your…
All proceeds for this event benefit Tenth Life Cat Rescue "Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House." -The New York Times How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable…
Presented by STRANGE BREW, St. Louis's long-running cult film series! "The world needs a movie like Crank...bold, wild, stupid, and fun." -AllMovie An outrageous thriller that operates on video-game logic and explodes with the rapid-fire assault of a Kalashnikov, Crank is…
Bring your mother, grandmother, or other maternal figure, and she gets in for FREE! "Faye Dunaway gives a startling, ferocious performance...she also invests the part with so much power and suffering...it transcends camp." — Pauline Kael When her adoptive mother Joan…
Film includes an introduction by Katherine Stewart of Silents, Please! STL Mary Pickford may be one of the most well known faces and names from the silent era, but her legacy is often not focused on her films, but her…
"Stands outside its time, its genre and even rock. It is one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies." — Roger Ebert Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance,…
"The quintessential James Bond movie!" — Empire With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold…
DUE TO STORMS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, MAY 26. ALL TICKETS AND GROOVY PASSES WILL BE HONORED. "A mod masterpiece...If you have not yet seen Blow-Up see it immediately." — Andrew Sarris In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist…
It's Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nicolas 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…
This event was rescheduled from May 19 due to rain. Tickets are still available for purchase! "A mod masterpiece...If you have not yet seen Blow-Up see it immediately." — Andrew Sarris In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets…
"It's almost impossible to watch it and not love it...one of the best movies ever made." — John Waters In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation…
COSTUME CONTEST! Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mike Myers' smashing comedy classic by dressing as your favorite Austin Powers character! Prizes will be awarded to the grooviest outfits on the backlot! Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Austin Powers: International Man of…
"Imaginative, and packed with little asides that poked at the absurdity of man’s destructiveness toward man and environment" -Paste In this animated futuristic tale, a pair of twins must fight for domination of what is left of the world, the…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT! You may come at 7:30 pm to get on the waitlist. We will release seats, if any space is available, at 8:35 pm. "Like a stone dropped in a well to listen for the splash, Memoria echoes…
This film is presented by Silents, Please! STL and will feature a special introduction from SPSTL's Kate Stewart! It came from the hand of F. W. Murnau and premiered in 1922, the same year as the director’s legendary Nosferatu, a…
