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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.)
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…
Part of Arkadin's Lynch @ 75 series. Purchase tickets to this and four other nights (Altered States, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Cryptozoo, and Son of the White Mare) with our Psychedelic Passport. David Lynch's radical debut feature turns the…
Purchase tickets to this and four other nights (Altered States, Eraserhead, Cryptozoo, and Son of the White Mare) with our Psychedelic Passport. Declared "a masterpiece" by legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed is not only…
"One of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages." -The Film Stage Mixing the drily ironic wit of Wes Anderson with the most hypnotically beautiful hand-drawn animation this side of Fantastic Planet, Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo is a psychedelic…
"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…
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,…
"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),…
"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…
