“A stark, vicious little b-movie featuring a truly berserk and mesmerizing performance from bitch goddess extraordinaire Joan Crawford” – The Lobotomy Room Film Club Film legend Joan Crawford is absolutely electrifying in this deliciously tawdry (yet disarmingly empathetic) shocker from…
“A drama that builds to a fever pitch of tension and holds itself there with superlative artistry.” – The Hollywood Reporter Anatole Litvak’s classic adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s book, THE SNAKE PIT is a harrowing portrait of a young…
Arkadin is excited to present this very special screening of Vincente Minnelli’s underseen psychiatric drama THE COBWEB with a preceding talk on THE HISTORY OF THE ASYLUM IN MISSOURI by Felix Vincenz, former CEO of the Forensic Treatment Center in…
“An eye-opening, timely and provocative human rights documentary. A powerful protest for truth, justice and democracy, and a protest against war, hatred and fascism.” – Avi Offer When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a…
“A divinely dark and devious brain tease…Scorsese has given us a new noir classic.” – The Los Angeles Times Set in 1954, this “intense, gripping and unforgettable” (Richard Roeper) psychological thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels,…
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…
“Not only does Vincent give a great, measured performance, but Anabel Shaw gives a brilliant and exhausting performance as poor, persecuted Janet, and Lynn Bari is so good that you want to murder her due to how scheming and conniving she is.…
“An exciting comedy!” – Battleship Pretension Mary Pickford plays a “tomboy of the tenements” in this comedy drama, which she also wrote. Filmed over ten weeks, LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY was shot entirely on a set created by art director John…
“It’s intentionally cheesy, delightfully demented, entirely over-the-top, and makes no apologies for its juvenile jokes and abundant gore.” – Film Threat From gonzo indie filmmaker Steven Kostanski, director of PG: Psycho Goreman, comes this fun, frenzied late-night pizza party of…
“So valuable because it contains so little of the theatrics common to pop culture depictions of mental illness… The fundamental story, the core narrative of a young woman forced to confront her fundamental ambivalence towards life in a very strange…
