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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…
"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…
"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,…
"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),…
#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…
Bring your mother, grandmother, or other maternal figure, and she gets in for FREE! "Faye Dunaway gives a startling, ferocious performance...she also invests the part with so much power and suffering...it transcends camp." — Pauline Kael When her adoptive mother Joan…
Film includes an introduction by Katherine Stewart of Silents, Please! STL Mary Pickford may be one of the most well known faces and names from the silent era, but her legacy is often not focused on her films, but her…
"Stands outside its time, its genre and even rock. It is one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies." — Roger Ebert Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance,…
