“I’m just trying to hang on to the marvelous latitude of a man’s point of view.” That statement uttered by Norma Shearer’s Jerry sums up the thesis of The Divorcee, a 1930 MGM drama based on a controversial novel about…
Knifetime: A Cheesy Lifetime Movie Event featuring… DON’T WAKE MOMMY (2015)
Molly is struggling with being a new mom, but after meeting Beth, things temporarily improve only to turn as Beth’s dark intentions are brought to light. Guest roaster: Jeremy Jones
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Happy Hour — Favorite Eps + Drink Specials — FREE!
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…