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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…
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…
"Hands down the best (and most fun) Friday the 13th film!" -Bloody Disgusting What better way to celebrate the only Friday the 13th of 2021 than with the best damn Friday the 13th movie ever made. Mixing self-aware comedy, gothic horror, and…
Part of Arkadin's ongoing series showcasing movies filmed in St. Louis, featuring a new short by local filmmaker Mike Gualdoni highlighting STL locations used in the film Set in the crime-ridden future world of 1997, in which Manhattan Island has…
"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 Psychedelic Animated Movie Ever Made” – IndieWire One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation. Don't believe us? Check out the trailer below! Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes,…
"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…
#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…
