“Haunting, beauteous… meditates on mankind’s place in the cosmos, the wonders of God, and the timeless immanence of evil.” –The New York Times This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted…
“A raw and unsettling phantasmagorical vision. A deeply impactful film.” – Severed Cinema A recovering alcoholic’s journey lurches into a nightmare tailspin during a global crisis. Sober for only a few months, her sanity erodes as the demon in her…
“Aggressive, confrontational, and scolding…punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire.” -Scott Tobias, The AV Club Michael Haneke, the austere Austrian, takes on America with an English language…
“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,…
“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…
“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…
This screening is sold out. “A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread.” -Total Film After a devastatingly bad date, suburban everyteen Jay finds herself trapped in a race…
Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a good chance you will be able to get you into the 9 pm show!
This February, FIST CITY presents THE HIDDEN POWER OF DRAGON SABRE—a wildly strange “spin-off” of Louis Cha’s serialized, early-60s novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Though this book had been adapted in the late-70s by Shaw Bros, they decided…
In honor of our dear departed David Lynch, Arkadin is presenting a very special night devoted to his most monumental creation, Twin Peaks. We’ll be serving up (damn fine) coffee and cherry pie (from the place where pies go when…
