“A stop-motion masterpiece over 7 years in the making…Stop what you’re doing and watch this beautiful passion project.” –Polygon Produced over the course of seven years by self-taught filmmaker Takahide Hori, JUNK HEAD is a lovingly crafted, painstakingly animated stop-motion…
SHINJUKU LOVE STORY (1987) presented by Fist City
Love conquers all in FIST CITY this month! It’s a tale as old as time…Boy meets Girl (and cat), Boy and Girl run afoul of two corrupt, sleazy cops, Boy and Girl also piss off the yakuza, Boy and Girl…
Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE LOBSTER (2015) w/ weird animal shorts @ 4 pm
“THE LOBSTER is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. It’s not quite that suicide, mutilation and murder are treated as jokes, but more…
Giallo Double Feature: Dario Argento’s THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) + Lucio Fulci’s DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (1972), presented by Cinematic Void
This double feature is co-presented by Cinematic Void, which helps organize January Giallo screenings each year at cinemas around the country. This year, Arkadin pulls on its black gloves and joins the movement with two absolute essentials. See either film…
Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
“What our nightmares have accustomed us to see in dreams, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange shows us in broad daylight. It is one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema.” –London Evening Standard Being the adventures of…
George Lucas’ debut dystopian sci-fi mind-bender THX 1138 (1971) w/ George Lucas Early Shorts @ 5 pm — $7
“THX 1138 feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.” -Washington Post A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present…
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) presented by St. Louis DSA
“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions of…
THE BAT (1926) w/ film composer Ben Model
THE BAT is one of the best and most enjoyable examples of the popular old dark house genre. A stylish combination of laughs and thrills, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic had thrilled audiences on stage before it came to the screen…
THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) — Canceled due to snowstorm
This screening has been canceled due to the snowstorm. Ticketholders will be refunded. Look out for a reschedule date later this year. “Thrilling and superbly acted…captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel.” –Rotten Tomatoes…
ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME — A shocking new family drama only at Arkadin!
“Intense, sexy, and fraught with tension” —Film Threat A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband’s colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children. Before leaping…









