The Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel, the Pyramids of Giza, and Looney Tunes. These are humanity’s greatest cultural achievements (and while we suspect Tex Avery and the Termite Terrace gang could’ve knocked out the Mona Lisa in a weekend, we’re…
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990)
“A devilishly, hysterically, cacklingly, subversively funny picture that builds and builds until it literally self-destructs.” – Washington Post Perhaps the closest cinema has ever come to a live-action Looney Tune, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH is an all-out assault of…
VHS NIGHT — Admission Price: One VHS Tape
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…
THE DEVIL’S NEEDLE (1916) and other exploitation films of the 1910s presented by Silents, Please! STL
This month, Silents, Please! shows that exploitation is as old as cinema itself with a salacious sensationalism from the 1910s, featuring drug addiction drama THE DEVIL’S NEEDLE (1916), sex trafficking thriller THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE (1910) and more! The Devil’s…
SOLD OUT! — WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) w/ Looney Tunes pre-show @ 1:30 pm
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. ARRIVE UP TO 30 MIN. BEFORE SHOWTIME TO BE PUT ON THE WAITLIST “Sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last – a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration” – Roger Ebert Director Robert Zemeckis’s…
THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) — Free “Talk Like a Pirate” Read-Aloud Screening
Ahoy, matey! Come celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day at ARRR-kadin with this first-of-its-kind movie experience (as far as we know) — a silent film screening where the audience is encouraged to read the title cards aloud in a…
CELIA (1989) — a rarely screened masterpiece of childhood terror presented with a creepy Australian children’s TV pre-show @ 4 pm — Fᴏʟᴋ Hᴏʀʀᴏʀ Aʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Wᴏʀʟᴅ
“Turner’s film is more effective that any dozen more conventional genre works. It gets under the skin like a tick, like an infection, like myxomatosis, and lingers there, dully throbbing, driving us to pick at it and ponder.” – The…
THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE (2016) presented by Dark Dream Cinema
“A campy, nasty, tremendously fun horror experience in which death proves not the ending we might expect” – The Film Stage Working late night at a morgue is bad enough; it’s even worse when you’re tasked with determining cause of…
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (1972) presented by Strange Brew w/ Season of the Witch pre-show @ 6 pm
In All The Colors Of The Dark (Tutti i colori del buio)(1972), a desperate woman living in London, Jane (Edwige Fenech), seeks an unconventional cure for her haunting nightmares after she loses her baby in a car accident. When professional help proves ineffective, a mysterious…
SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (2024) — a new film by legendary animators The Quay Brothers
“To enter the impossible, haunted night of a Quay Brothers film is to become complicit in one of the most perverse and obsessive acts of cinema.” – Film Comment Christopher Nolan presents this first feature in 20 years by animation…