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Six by Fred (1967-2023) Fred Camper (b.1947) is a critic, known for his expertise on American avant-garde film. Here and there throughout his career—and increasingly in recent decades—he has also been an artist himself. In conjunction with WashU's Program in…
Before watching the Big Game, come enjoy some classic gridiron hilarity with the 3 Stooges and the Marx Brothers (plus a surprise or two)! The Three Stooges in THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)"Three Little Pigskins is one of the most enduringly…
Join us for the next edition of Head Cleaner Theatre, PIXEL PERFECT, a celebration of the 8-bit/pixel-based animation and artwork from the early days of personal computing when technology leveled the playing field for creative professionals and driven amateurs alike.…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT! "A WILD LESBIAN FANTASY EPIC with all the bloody battles, timeslipping travails and bloodlettings that you could want from an unofficial riff on the legendary barbarian Conan." -Nashville Scene After blowing every festival’s crowds minds…
"It’s impossible to look back on the literary and cultural aesthetic dubbed, 'Afrofuturism,' without this sonic piece of film/music history blasting into perspective. Sun Ra’s “Space Is the Place” is the epitome of this unprecedented style. It’s the perfect combination…
“An electrifying story...feels just as vital and necessary to the cultural conversation as it did over thirty years ago” -Film School Rejects With its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. introduced audiences to…
Psycho Granny is a 2019 thriller movie about a woman named Samantha, who is pregnant and grieving the death of her mother. She is surprised by the sudden appearance of Colleen, who claims to be her long-lost grandmother. Samantha welcomes…
Arkadin is now open for “office hours” on Wednesdays. Join us at 2 pm February 21 for Coffee with Commentary. We’ll put on great films with a fantastic commentary tracks while you work, chill, color, zone out, whatever! Serving pour…
"Actually feels transmitted from another dimensional plane. Every scene is clouded in iridescent fumes." -pd187, Letterboxd From a place beyond time, a cruel and evil shadow has fallen over the peaceful land of Cronos. At the height of the Sword &…
In October, you guys came out in force to watch some of the best spooky television '90s HBO had to offer. You wanted more. We heard you. And so, we bring you...The Return of the Tales from the Crypt Happy…
“All hail a cult classic ... One of the best horror-comedies of the 1990s!” -Uproxx Based on the legendary HBO horror series Tales from the Crypt, DEMON KNIGHT tells the story of a drifter named Frank Brayker (William Sadler), who possesses…
For just $3, catch a wild, ultra-violent, yet—in its ultra-low budget way—elegant spectacle of action-oriented sci-fi featuring some of the wildest gun battles this side of Hong Kong. Synthesizing a host of '80s action/sci-fi influences, from the future-noir panache of…
It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with. Two showtimes, 6:30 pm and 9 pm. Weather permitting, the…
“Absolute fucking madness from frame one. Petey Wheatstraw opens with a woman birthing a fully grown, diaper wearing, foul-mouthed six-year-old. It only gets crazier from there. A nightmare of tonal shifts, this is a film that swerves from Benny Hill-like fast-motion comedy…
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN STILL COME TO OUR POST-FILM KARAOKE PARTY 🎤 Celebrate Arkadin Cinema's one-year anniversary with a masquerade screening of the film that gave us our name -- Orson Welles' MR. ARKADIN. Each ticket…
“Even better than you’ve heard (or remember). It’s nothing less than the birth of modern cinema.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into…
“A frenzy of Expressionistic images…burst through the screen to evoke an oppressively incomprehensible system of edicts and constraints. And who better to reveal the system’s evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker…
Forbidden Hollywood is a monthly series hosted by STL film critic Katie Carter celebrating the Pre-Code films of the early 1930s, when movies were wild, racy, transgressive, and tons of fun. “She climbed the ladder of success— wrong by wrong!”…
Hot off the heels of the massively popular Transformers television show from 1984, Hasbro Toys greenlit The Transformers: The Movie for release in the summer of 1986. Hasbro Toys had just one mandate for the film: Kill off the majority of the current Transformers…
“A perfect Alfred Hitchcock thriller, made the start of his best period, with an ingenious plot taken from a Patricia Highsmith novel and a memorably seductive villain.” The Age What if you playfully hatched the perfect crime, but your accomplice actually…
