“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…
314 DAY FOR WEIRDOS: World Wide Magazine – “What St. Louis Means to Me” — $5
Pete Parisi’s dream was to get his St. Louis public access show World Wide Magazine to bigger audiences. Back in 1994, he had a job at local station KPLR channel 11 manning the control boards and cutting to commercials, especially during…
314 DAY FOR WEIRDOS: Lepers Disease TV Happy Hour — Free!
First up, we’ve got a FREE happy hour devoted to legendary cable access show LEPERS DISEASE TV. A freewheeling mix of oddball comedy sketches and live concert footage, Lepers TV is an invaluable document of the local ’90s music scene…
FUNNY GAMES (2007)
“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…
THE COURIER OF DEATH (1984) presented by Fist City
In March, FIST CITY delivers…a low-budget, regional, revenge-o-matic that has never been released on DVD or Blu Ray! THE COURIER OF DEATH was directed and self-financed by Tom Shaw, a porn shop mogul with a desire to make Portland into…
SNYTH-POP Happy Hour — Music Videos and Drink Specials!
Get your folksy ass out of here, we’re gettin’ synthetic tonight with a curated collection of synth-tastic tunes by our favorite synth-pop artists. From Berlin to Japan, Yazoo to Yaz, Yellow Magic Orchestra to Yello, we’ve got it all. We’ll…
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1988)
“Campy, with over-the-top 80s style, and catchy, but ridiculous, musical numbers… EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY has slowly been climbing the ranks of Cult Classics as it is rediscovered by old and new generations. If you ever need a shot of…
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s TEOREMA (1968) — a controversial drama from the director of Salò
“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,…
EVERY LITTLE THING (2025) — brand-new hummingbird rescue documentary presented with St. Louis Audubon Society — SOLD OUT!
This screening is sold out. We will open the wait-list at 12:30 PM. “Big-hearted… effortlessly riveting. Offers a vision of compassion as a way of life.” -The Hollywood Reporter Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to…
THE VISITOR (2024) — Bruce LaBruce’s “brilliantly depraved” sexually explicit new thriller only at Arkadin!
“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…