Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
"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…
THE PUBLIC ENEMY: “That’s not a motion picture. It’s beyond a motion picture.” MGM producer Irving Thalberg spoke those words to Warner Brothers’ head of production Darryl F. Zanuck after Zanuck previewed for him the studio’s 1931 release “The Public Enemy.” Thalberg…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT! But I'm A Cheerleader is a campy and colorful queer comedy that satirizes teen conversion therapy. Starring Natasha Lyonne as cheerleader Megan Bloomfield, the film follows Megan as her parents send her to a conversion therapy camp…
Author and film critic Noah Gittell will introduce this screening and talk about his brand-new book Baseball: The Movie. The book will be available for sale on-site from our friends at Left Bank Books, and Noah will be on-hand after…
The third Mondays of the month are KNIFETIME, a cheesy Lifetime-esque movie live roasting event hosted by Ally Spina, a Lifetime movie aficionado. Every month Spina selects a different cable TV movie disaster-piece and live roasts it with a friend…
Silents, Please! STL presented a double feature of films by Tod Browning, film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. THE BLACKBIRDThe Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a bishop by day, but a world-class thief after nightfall. When…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! 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…
The Pope of Trash! The Prince of Puke! For over half a century, John Waters' name has been synonymous with gleefully bad taste. Always eager to shock with a grin on his face, Waters' love of trash culture has been…
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. “One of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” -Variety John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine…
"A lasting vision of heresy and pastoral horror" -Sukhdev Sandhu This astonishing work from Alan Clarke (Scum, Elephant) explores a young man's coming-of-age through the fractured lens of England's pagan past. Originally shown on BBC1 in 1974 and rarely seen…
"A subtle and thrilling love story...at once ardent and rigorous, passionate and philosophical." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish,…
This month, Arkadin celebrates Pride with a double dose of impressionistic quasi-documentaries exploring Black gay identity in the late 1980s. Though experimental in approach, these films are both remarkably approachable, filled with sensuousness, humor, and (at times) righteous fury. Both…
Hysteria Fest is back for its third year, bringing you the best in contemporary horror as well as a repertory spotlight on Scandinavian Horror. Early Bird passes are still available -- see everything at the fest for just $55! Thursday,…
Between 1927 and 1930, Clara Bow— the silent film icon who earned the nickname the “It Girl”— was one of the top-grossing stars in Hollywood. When she starred in 1932’s CALL HER SAVAGE she had been off-screen for a year…
Bret Berg of Museum of Home Video will present this program in person! Museum of Home Video is a weekly found-footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists and drinkers. Every Tuesday at museumofhomevideo.com, VJ Bret Berg broadcasts a riot of talk show clips,…
On the maiden journey of a new top-of-the-line RV, a group of innocent campers mistakenly witness a horrific human sacrifice performed by a satanic cult in the middle of rural Texas in the grindhouse classic Race with the Devil (1975). The two vacationing…
Matthew Thurber is a cartoonist and filmmaker based in NYC. He is the author of1-800-MICE, INFOMANIACS, Art Comic, Looking For The Cat. His performance history includes Soiled Mattress and the Springs 2006-08, Ambergris 2003-15, a decade of collaborations with Brian Belott,…
"The Greatest Killer Insect Movie Ever Made...Think of it as the 2001: A Space Odyssey of treacherous ant movies." -Den of Geek Following a mysterious eclipse-like solar event, scientists begin to notice strange and unexplainable behavioral changes in ants. While initially written…
"A Beautiful, Brutal Eco-Horror from Down Under...buried beneath the ecological dread and creature mayhem is a visual poem about the outback, which has never looked so equally surreal and stark." -Bloody Disgusting Somewhere in the Australian Outback, there is a…
STLVS has created a one-of-a-kind English composite dub for this edition of FIST CITY. Sourced from a Greek VHS and synced to a DVD print, this is an incredibly rare opportunity to see this film in English with the highest…
