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Join Silents, Please! STL for an evening of fantasy, whimsy, and downright oddity as we screen the British release of Alice in Wonderland from 1915. Other magical and fantastical shorts will be shown for your delight! "Epic costumes, cool landscapes...a…
Knuckle up! On April 8, 2024, Saint Louis Video Society makes its triumphant return with a new film series — FIST CITY FIST CITY explores the outer limits in action cinema—odd, obscure, low-budget, international, and more! FIST CITY is “auteur…
Silents, Please! STL is throwing Charlie Chaplin a 135th birthday party and you’re invited! Featuring MODERN TIMES. This comedic masterpiece finds the iconic Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and…
"Palestine in the cinema is not only a political situation. It’s a people with culture, language, art, with negative and positive sides. We exist in cinema as a nation." -Rashid Masharawi Join us for an evening celebrating the richness and…
Forget Saturday Night Live! Everyone knows the greatest Lorne Michaels-produced sketch comedy show didn't come out of 30 Rock but from our neighbors in the Great White North. Bringing us such legendary characters as Kathie and Cathy, the Chicken Lady…
This screening is SOLD OUT. "A madcap genre-hopper, mixing silent film performance styles with hand-drawn animation, slapstick comedy, Looney Tunes-like sound effects and stop-motion graphics." -The New York Times In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman…
This month, Ally will roast cheesy Lifetime thriller YOU MAY NOW KILL THE BRIDE with special co-host Alexis Winford! A couple is on the brink of marriage, but everything starts spiraling into chaos. The Maid of Honor suffers a terrible…
“A peculiarly cerebral and poetic trip into both deep space and the mysteries of the human mind.” -Anton Bitel, BFI Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and…
Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in free. It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
The sharp, acerbic well from which pretty much the entire past two and half decades of alternative comedy sprang, Mr. Show with Bob and David remains the high-water mark for hip, hilarious sketch comedy. Before they were Saul Goodman and…
This screening is sold out! "The People’s Joker is a fearless, gloriously funny, and moving act of cinematic anarchy." -Austin Chronicle This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans…
This screening is sold out! "The People’s Joker is a fearless, gloriously funny, and moving act of cinematic anarchy." -Austin Chronicle This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans…
This screening is SOLD OUT. A wait-list will open 1 hour before showtime. "The People’s Joker is a fearless, gloriously funny, and moving act of cinematic anarchy." -Austin Chronicle This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic…
Logan's Run is a masterpiece of pre-Star Wars '70s Sci-Fi. Based on the 1967 novel by William F Nolan & George Clayton Johnston, the film acts as a pointed critique of conformity, hedonism & obsession with youth and is as cutting today as…
“A study in madness and its partner, genius.” Roger Ebert Brimming with tension and overflowing with ideas, Darren Aronofsky’s debut heralded the arrival of a searing new talent. Pulsing with a techno soundtrack that reflects its grimy, handmade quality, π is a…
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…
