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“A unique and provocative film, ironic, funny, crazy and moving” -Newsweek In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on…
This month, our $3 Mystery Movie crosses over with our Offbeat Black Comedies series as we presented a truly outrageous and wonderful horror-fantasy-comedy-musical hybrid that must be experienced to be believed. As jubilant as it is bizarre, this truly singular…
"One of the craziest, funniest films audiences will see anywhere" -Moviemaker Magazine It’s 2007 in Pfresno, Texas. Raphael is in county jail following an arrest for graffiti. He’s a good kid. It’s just graffiti. So you can’t blame Raphael for…
Join the On Cinema family on March 2 for a LIVE evening of celebration, traditional values, and of course, movie magic. Oscar Fever is here! Hosted by actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, recording artist, self-taught attorney, healer and entrepreneur Tim Heidecker (Decker, Dekkar, Fantastic…
“Single lives, twin beds, and triple bromides in the morning,” is the holy state of matrimony, modern style, according to Sylvia Sidney’s Joan Prentice in 1932’s “Merrily We Go to Hell.” The drama opens with heiress Joan’s meet-cute with alcoholic…
"Campy, with over-the-top 80s style, and catchy, but ridiculous, musical numbers... EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY has slowly been climbing the ranks of Cult Classics as it is rediscovered by old and new generations. If you ever need a shot of…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
"Provocative, highly controversial...arguably most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life." -Guardian With Teorema (a.k.a. Theorem), a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
First up, we've got a FREE happy hour devoted to legendary cable access show LEPERS DISEASE TV. A freewheeling mix of oddball comedy sketches and live concert footage, Lepers TV is an invaluable document of the local '90s music scene…
Pete Parisi's dream was to get his St. Louis public access show World Wide Magazine to bigger audiences. Back in 1994, he had a job at local station KPLR channel 11 manning the control boards and cutting to commercials, especially during…
At this family-friendly sing-along screening, the audience is encouraged to belt out all the wonderfully catchy tunes from this beloved Walt Disney classic. Lyrics will appear at the bottom of the screen during musical numbers to help you along. An…
“The best Leprechaun movie...elevates bad movies into an art form” -Variety Arkadin continues its annual tradition of defiling St. Patty's Day with some bloody Leprechaun action! After bringing you a double feature of the OG and second entries in 2023…
"The Queen of Underground Cinema" -New York Press As part of Arkadin's Female Filmmakers on the Edge series, Arkadin presents a double feature from "the Queen of Underground Cinema," Sarah Jacobson! Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie…
When ten-year-old Eric’s older brother Max drowns, Eric’s mother Briana, takes the death of her favorite son, especially hard and spirals into a dark depression. Eric, already haunted guilt over not saving Max and desperate for attention, begins spending time with the…
“A misunderstood masterpiece! A fiendishly clever satire ahead of its time an unabashedly feel-good gag-a-minute romp in which the power of pure friendship saves the day.” - Collider In this boldly satirical adaptation of the popular 70's animated series (itself based…
For this month's mystery movie, Arkadin brings you a wonderfully deranged documentary — can a film be called a "documentary" when it's full of nothing but woo-woo hokum? — that you'll not soon forget. This uncut blast of psychotronic nuttery…