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Imagine America's Funniest Home Videos moved to Eurasia and hooked up to straight mescaline... Due to the high prevalence of insurance disputes, in Russia, everyone has a dashcam mounted in their car running all the time. These little cameras provide…
“Not just a thriller, not just a social commentary, not just a comedy or a romance, but all of those in a clearly seen, brilliantly made film” -Roger Ebert A Sundance sensation that became a sleeper hit for MTV Films…
“Tokyo Drift is to street racing what Rocky is to boxing movies.” -Screencrush"The best Fast and the Furious movie for car people!" -Jalopnik"Significantly underrated!" -Screen Rant Director Justin Lin offers a high-octane look at the world of underground Japanese drift-racing…
"Wong is sensationally expressive and projects a modern, coolly appraising sexuality. Visually eloquent and often dazzling, the movie is no less terrific." J. Hoberman E.A. Dupont's Piccadilly, the 1929 silent masterpiece brilliantly restored by the British Film Institute, stars the sultry…
You’d be hard-pressed to find two more potent examples of economical filmmaking than this pair of films from two of Warner Brothers’ most reliably efficient filmmakers. Mervyn LeRoy’s 1932 drama THREE ON A MATCH packs a story that spans over a decade into 62 minutes, with a large ensemble cast that…
In this silent drama, lifelong school chums Leo (John Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are soldiers in the German army. Leo falls in love with Countess Felicitas (Greta Garbo) and courts her, which enrages her husband (Marc McDermott). When Leo…
Andrzej Żuławski’s 1988 sci-fi epic follows a group of wayward astronauts who attempt to rebuild society on a new planet after fleeing Earth. As the generations progress, a video diary sent by one of the concerned founders makes its way…
"Intense, terrifying, and unforgettable" -The Ringer Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to…
"Intense, terrifying, and unforgettable" -The Ringer Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to…
Andrzej Żuławski’s 1988 sci-fi epic follows a group of wayward astronauts who attempt to rebuild society on a new planet after fleeing Earth. As the generations progress, a video diary sent by one of the concerned founders makes its way…
Fist City is a monthly series by The Saint Louis Video Society that pulls the most obscure, weird and rarely seen/ screened VHS Tapes from their archive and brings them to the Arkadin screen...for FREE! The de Anda brothers' mean…
“Moritsugu’s films unfold like an amphetamine-laced car crash!” -Raygun Magazine A force of nature since 1985, underground icon Jon Moritsugu—in partnership with wife Amy Davis—creates candy-colored genre riots that feel like NC-17 sitcoms from outer space. Moritsugu's fearless, protopunk deconstructions…
“One of the supreme cinematic achievements of the last quarter-century.” -Philadelphia Inquirer With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a…
The work of William Shakespeare has been adapted for the screen countless times but never with such utterly chaotic lavishment as in this truly singular film. An exercise in visual excess and information overload, this work features one of the…
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Celebrate the birthday of St. Louis' favorite son with a weekend of events devoted to Vincent Price, hosted by his daughter and biographer, Victoria Price! Before legendary actor Vincent Price hit the silver screen he spent his childhood growing up…
The Babysitter’s Seduction revolves around Michelle Winston, a high school babysitter. When the mother of the family she babysits for unexpectedly dies, Michelle is asked to continue caring for the children. However, she becomes gradually entangled in a web of deceit…
"Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's hallucinatory meditation on human embodiment, celebrity, and, uh, John Malkovich remains the ultimate marriage of '90s music-video aesthetics and absurdist narrative storytelling." -The Ringer Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically,…
"10 Things I Hate About You is just as delightful—and stylish—25 years later!" -Vogue Transporting Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to a '90s high school, 10 Things I Hate About You may have borrowed the Clueless formula, but it turned…
"One of the 100 best LGBTQ films of all time! A sultry, slowly simmering study of sublimated victimization." -Slant Magazine With its complicated plot, multiple unreliable narrators, and subtle interplay between fantasy and reality, Scott Heim's Mysterious Skin may not…
