“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…
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…
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
“T2 has lost none of its thrilling power, feminist ferocity, and ominous foreboding—and seen on a big screen, it still puts most of its modern Hollywood progeny to shame.” -The Daily Beast No mere cash-grab sequel, James Cameron’s expanded the…
THE END OF EVANGELION (1997)
“Profound, disturbing and beautiful…an anime masterpiece” -Tom Cassidy Created by Hideaki Anno , the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series is one of the most influential animated series of all time. Since its 1995 premiere in Japan, the story of teenager Shinji Ikari…
THE END OF EVANGELION (1997)
“Profound, disturbing and beautiful…an anime masterpiece” -Tom Cassidy Created by Hideaki Anno , the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series is one of the most influential animated series of all time. Since its 1995 premiere in Japan, the story of teenager Shinji Ikari…