You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: The Twilight Zone!…
$3 MYSTERY MOVIE: A True-Life Documentary as Hilarious and Absurd as Spinal Tap (but with a lot more danger!)
We’re very excited for this month’s $3 Mystery Movie selection: a hysterical documentary that also happens to feature riveting edge-of-your-seat human drama. In the grand tradition of American Movie, Anvil! and King of Kong (but preceding them all), this is…
THE SHINING (1980) — Sold Out!
“Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror.” –Slant Magazine Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick’s snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and…
CANCELED (will be rescheduled) — Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky’s WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel this screening. Werckmeister Harmonies will be rescheduled next year. We apologize for the inconvenience. “Chilling, mesmerizing, intense…essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema” -Jonathan Rosenbaum This mesmeric parable of societal…
PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT (2024) w/ filmmaker Q&A — new release only at Arkadin!
“A punk-rock Midsommar…demented, visually lush explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn…
Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)
“A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room…vital, riveting and real.” –Telegraph Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and…
Robert Altman’s McCABE & MRS. MILLER (1975) w/ Leonard Cohen pre-show @ 12:30 pm — $7
“Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great, but one of them is perfect, and that one is McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” -Roger Ebert This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically…
TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) — Friday Night WTF! — $5
“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war…
GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS — $3
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
REX: A DINOSAUR’S STORY (1993) — Japanese Dino Christmas Rarity — FREE!
“So cute it’s almost physically painful to watch” -Daniel, Letterboxd Arkadin’s Christmas present to you is a FREE screening of a little-known yet aggressively adorable yuletide dinosaur kiddie movie from Japan! Made to capitalize on the success of Jurassic Park,…