Title: A History of Violence in 35mm Showtime: 5/30(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM We are all set for A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, which is our second 35mm screening event of the month! We are on a roll here... Join us tomorrow night at 7:30pm!! (David Cronenberg, 2005, USA/Canada/Germany, 96 minutes) Screening in 35mm! Here’s a good answer for the discerning cinephile seeking to answer “What’s your favorite comic book movie?” (Well, this or Ghost World.) David Cronenberg’s Cannes- and Oscar-laureled A History of Violence adapts John Wagner and Vince Locke’s 1997 graphic novel about a family man named Joey (Viggo Mortensen, fresh off of Lord of the Rings) who, in the process of stopping a robbery of the diner he owns, proves maybe a little too adept with guns and violence, which leads to questions about his past. Smartly stealing tropes from the American Western and recasting them in modern small-town Indiana, Cronenberg and Mortensen both do some of the best work of their respective careers here, and this marks the first of four collaborations between the two of them (so far). #ahistoryofviolence #davidcronenberg #35mm #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Stand by Me Showtime: 5/28(Tue), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Tonight at 7:30PM! Our Stephen King on Screen program continues with STAND BY ME. I can already hear the music playing in my head. (Rob Reiner, 1986, USA, 89 minutes) Sourced from the Stephen King novella “The Body,” which was collected in the 1982 book Different Seasons (the same tome that houses “Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption”), Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me is one of many King adaptations that show his talents outside of his usual wheelhouse of horror. Told as a lengthy flashback to 1959 as our characters come of age, a group of four teenagers (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell) hear of a dead body found, but not yet reported, a lengthy walk away from their homes, so they decide to lie about their whereabouts and set out to go see it. The film struggles with death on the surface—quest to see the dead body aside, the boys are troubled by the death of an older brother (John Cusack)—and this all becomes more poignant in light of breakout star Phoenix’s untimely death in 1993 at the age of 23. #standbyme #robreiner #stephenking #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: In Our Day Showtimes: 5/24(Fri)-5/26(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Happy Memorial Day weekend, film lovers and filmmakers!! Two more chances to see Hong Sangsoo’s latest IN OUR DAY—tonight and Sunday night, at 7:30pm, exclusively at the Webster Film Series! #inourday #hongsangsoo #koreancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Inherent Vice in 35mm Showtime: 5/23(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM INHERENT VICE in 35mm will screen tonight at 7:30PM on the dot. So, you know, don't be late! See you soon. #inherentvice #paulthomasanderson #35mm #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Inherent Vice in 35mm Showtime: 5/23(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE is ready to make its STL debut in 35mm!! The Film Series's longtime projectionist, Dick Bauer, is famously fussy about the quality of film prints. He reports the prints we were sent of INHERENT VICE and the upcoming A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE are "as good as it gets." #inherentvice #paulthomasanderson #35mm #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Christine Showtime: 5/21(Tue), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Based on Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name, John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE is blazing in tonight at 7:30PM! #christine #stephenking #johncarpenter #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Christine Showtime: 5/21(Tue), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM (John Carpenter, 1983, USA, 110 minutes) Released in theatres the same calendar year that its Stephen King source novel saw print, John Carpenter’s Christine is one of several scary car movies courtesy of Mr. King. (See also: King’s sole directorial effort, 1986’s Maximum Overdrive, to name just one.) The homicidal title car is a 1958 Plymouth Fury purchased by a nerdy teenager named Arnie (Keith Gordon), and Arnie and Christine come to foster a mutually destructive obsession with one another. #christine #stephenking #johncarpenter #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Contempt Showtimes: 5/16(Thur), 5/17(Fri), 5/19(Sun) at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Our three nights of Jean-Luc Godard's CONTEMPT begins tonight at 7:30PM!! P.S. A quick reminder! 5/18(Sat) is the last chance to see Polish director Andrzej Źuławski's THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE (L’important c’est d’aimer) #contempt #jeanlucgodard #frenchcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Most Important Thing is to Love (L’important c’est d’aimer) Showtimes: 5/14(Tue), 5/18(Sat) at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Debuting tonight at 7:30PM, with another chance to see THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE (L’important c’est d’aimer) on Saturday night! #limportantcestdaimer #themostimportantthingistolove #andrzejzulawski #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Most Important Thing is to Love (L’important c’est d’aimer) Showtimes: 5/14(Tue), 5/18(Sat) at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM (Andrzej Źuławski, 1975, France/Italy/West Germany, 109 minutes) Polish director Andrzej Źuławski has been finding scores of new fans in recent years with the restoration and rerelease of his 1981 masterpiece Possession, but he has an impressive body of work that is ripe for rediscovery in total. Immediately preceding Possession is 1975’s The Most Important Thing is to Love (L’important c’est d’aimer), which he made in France after fleeing his native Poland when his prior film, 1972’s The Devil, had been banned there. Romy Schneider, who won a César for Best Actress for her work here, plays an actress with few options but to make softcore movies. A paparazzo named Servais (Fabio Testi) becomes obsessed with her and tries to launch a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III for her to co-star in. Alas, the proposed male lead of the production (Klaus Kinski) is a problem. In French with English subtitles. #limportantcestdaimer #themostimportantthingistolove #andrzejzulawski #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: L’amour fou Showtime: 5/12(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Happy Mother's Day!!! Here's a unique Mother's Day celebration idea—why not share this rare screening of L'AMOUR FOU with your mom? See you tonight! #lamourfou #jacquesrivette #frenchcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: L’amour fou Showtime: 5/12(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM This Sunday at 7PM!! Jacques Rivette's 4+ hour L'amour fou, which is legendarily difficult to see, is here to grace our big screen for ONE NIGHT ONLY! P.S. Screening will start promptly at 7pm on Sunday night, don't be late! (Jacques Rivette, 1969, France, 250 minutes) Long one of the white whales of the French New Wave (which subcategory of cinema director Jacques Rivette has all but had a lock on until recently; see also Out 1: noli me tangere), L’amour fou is newly restored and finally ready to be seen by the waiting Webster Film Series audience, rabid fans of Rivette among us. In typical Rivette fashion, L’amour fou takes place amidst rehearsals for a play, in this case the tragedy Andromaque. The play’s lead actress (Rivette regular Bulle Ogier) stays focused on the task at hand while her romantic partner and play’s director takes to philandering. Screening without an intermission. In French with English subtitles. #lamourfou #jacquesrivette #frenchcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Creepshow Showtime: 5/10(Fri), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Tonight at 7:30PM! With screenplay written by Stephen King and the master of horror George Romero at the helm, the 2nd installment in our Stephen King on Screen program—CREEPSHOW is "the most fun you'll ever have being scared!" #creepshow #georgeromero #stephenking #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Creepshow Showtime: 5/10(Fri), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Coming tomorrow! Stephen King on Screen: Creepshow (George Romero, 1982, USA, 120 minutes) In between 1978’s Dawn of the Dead and 1985’s Day of the Dead, erstwhile zombie maestro George Romero directed Creepshow in 1982, which features Stephen King’s first produced screenplay. With a cast including Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Joe Hill (King’s son and a horror novelist himself these days), and King himself, and with special effects from Tom Savini, Creepshow is made up of five stories collected omnibus-style into one of the most fun films of the King cinema canon. #creepshow #georgeromero #stephenking #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Carrie Showtime: 5/9(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Tonight at 7:30PM!! Our month-long "Stephen King on Screen" program kicks off with the one and only CARRIE! #carrie #stephenking #briandepalma #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Carrie Showtime: 5/9(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM (Brian De Palma, 1976, USA, 94 minutes) Stephen King’s first novel was published fifty years ago this month, in May of 1974, and to celebrate we have a program of King film adaptations. Kicking the program off is invariably an adaptation of that first novel of his, Carrie, which American master Brian De Palma directed shortly after his weirdo musical Phantom of the Paradise and the Paul Schrader-scripted Obsession. Carrie stars a young Sissy Spacek as the socially ostracized title high schooler who also harbors telekinetic powers. Featuring one of horror cinema’s great endings, Carrie sets King’s course in the film world as ably as the novel did in literature. #carrie #stephenking #briandepalma #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Long Day's Journey into Night in 3D at the Hi-Pointe (地球最後的夜晚) Showtime: 5/7(Tue), at 7PM Location: Hi-Pointe Theatre, 1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO 63117 Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Tonight at 7PM!! Our popular East Asian Cinema series will conclude with Bi Gan's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT showing in 3D for the first time in St. Louis!!! Once again, a friendly reminder this event is co-presented with Cinema St. Louis @stlfilmfest, tonight's screening will take place AT THE HI-POINTE THEATRE @hipointetheatre. (advance tickets are available at Cinema St. Louis's website.) Webster Film Series punch passes are not accepted for admission to this event. General admission $8, free for currently-enrolled Webster University students with proper ID. #longdaysjourneyintonight #3dfilm #BiGan #chinesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Long Day's Journey into Night in 3D at the Hi-Pointe (地球最後的夜晚) Showtime: 5/7(Tue), at 7PM Location: Hi-Pointe Theatre, 1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO 63117 Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Co-presented with Cinema St Louis @stlfilmfest. Screening at @hipointetheatre tomorrow! Advance tickets available at cinema st. louis's website. Webster Film Series punch passes are not accepted for admission to this event. General admission $8, free for currently-enrolled Webster University students with proper ID. (Bi Gan, 2018, China/France, 139 minutes) When Long Day’s Journey into Night was a first-run film in America in 2019 it played in 2D for just a week at the Tivoli, a brief run that was enough to inspire no fewer than three local film critics to include it on their “Best films of the 2010s” list for Cinema St. Louis some seven months later. Missing from that original run was the 3D element, which the Webster University Film Series and Cinema St. Louis are proud to now be providing a belated St. Louis premiere to. “Only” the film’s final hour is in 3D, but not only is that hour 3D, it is also one long, unbroken, incredibly complicated shot. From a genre standpoint, Long Day’s Journey into Night is a neon noir of the sort we’ve been seeing come out of China in recent years (Fallen Angels, Streetwise, The Wild Goose Lake), wherein we find Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) returning to his hometown of Kaili and searching for his lost love Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei of Decision to Leave and Lust, Caution). Just 28 years old at the time of its premiere, with Long Day’s Journey into Night Bi Gan promptly rocketed himself to the front ranks not just of the world’s young directors, but the world’s directors, period. In Mandarin with English subtitles. #longdaysjourneyintonight #3dfilm #BiGan #chinesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Greetings again, STL film lovers and filmmakers! We sound like a broken record at this point, but we have yet another delightful lineup of movies ready for you in May. Mark your calendar, folks. Here they come! (For more info on each film, go to our bio for 🔗 to our homepage) Coming up tomorrow 5/2(Thur): an unofficial entry in our East Asian Cinema series—the innovative Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan's KAILI BLUES will be screening with his 2022 short "A SHORT STORY". Our popular East Asian Cinema series will conclude with Bi Gan's spectacular LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT in 3D, co-presented with @stlfilmfest, screening at @hipointetheatre on 5/7(Tue). Advance tickets available at cinema st. louis's website. New release premieres: Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese's debut feature DISCO BOY, screening on 5/3(Fri) & 5/5(Sun). Prolific Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo's newest addition IN OUR DAY, screening 5/24(Fri) through 5/26(Sun). Stephen King on screen series: CARRIE on 5/9(Thur); CREEPSHOW on 5/10(Fri); CHRISTINE on 5/21(Tue); STAND BY ME on 5/28(Tue); and MISERY on 6/6(Thur). French masterpieces on our mind: Jacques Rivette's L'AMOUR FOU on 5/12(Sun); Andrzej Źuławski's THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE on 5/14(Tue) & 5/18(Sat); Jean-Luc Godard's beloved CONTEMPT on 5/16(Thur), 5/17(Fri) & 5/19(Sun) Screening in 35MM: Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE on 5/23(Thur); David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen teamed up in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE on 5/30(Thur)! #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Secret Sunshine (밀양 / 密陽) Showtime: 4/30(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Heads up everyone, we don't have any trailers tonight. Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece SECRET SUNSHINE will start promptly at 7pm! #secretsunshine #leechangdong #koreancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Secret Sunshine (밀양 / 密陽) Showtime: 4/30(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM (Lee Chang-dong, 2007, South Korea, 142 minutes) Mourning the recent loss of her husband, young widow Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) moves herself and her son from bustling Seoul to Miryang, the small hometown her husband hailed from. Struggling to fit in, Shin-ae tries different approaches to her new life, all the while local try-hard Jong-chan (Song Kang-ho, who we just saw in Memories of Murder last week) tries to get in her good graces. With Secret Sunshine, which won Jeon the best actress prize at Cannes, Lee shows his adeptness at plotting screenplays as robustly as one would expect of a deeply involving novel. Indeed, Lee’s background is in writing, which he did before and during his celebrated filmmaking career—just earlier this year he had a short story published in The New Yorker. In Korean with English subtitles. #secretsunshine #leechangdong #koreancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus Showtimes: 4/26(Fri)-4/28(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Calling out to all the music lovers!! The St. Louis premiere AND exclusive screening of the late legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's final concert film—OPUS, starts TONIGHT at 7:30PM!! #ryuichisakamotoopus #ryuichisakamoto #neosora #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Gun Crazy in 35mm Showtime: 4/25(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM We are so excited to announce GUN CRAZY will be screening in 35mm on Thursday night at 7:30PM!! (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950, USA, 86 minutes) One of the highlights of what Paul Schrader called “Phase 3” of the film noir era, Joseph H. Lewis’s Gun Crazy stars John Dall, whom we just saw in Rope two weeks ago, as a nice but gun-loving boy fixated on crack shot Annie Laurie Starr (the Welsh-born Peggy Cummins), whom he meets at a carnival trick shot show. MacKinley Cantor adapted his short story with the help of then-blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman), and the resulting film is something of a Bonnie & Clyde story replete with far more than its share of cinematic flourishes—to name just one, watch for the POV bank robbery scene from the inside of the getaway car, which was improvised on the spot and with only the key players knowing what was going on. #guncrazy #josephhlewis #35mm #filmnoir #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) Showtime: 4/23(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Screening tonight at 7PM! A perfect rainy, gloomy night to experience Bong Joon Ho's captivating crime thriller MEMORIES OF MURDER on our big screen. #memoriesofmurder #bongjoonho #koreancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) Showtime: 4/23(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM (Bong Joon Ho, 2003, South Korea, 131 minutes) In his first collaboration with actor Song Kang-ho, who went on to work with him again on The Host (2006), Snowpiercer (2013), and, most famously, Parasite (2019), Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder tackles the true story of a serial killer who terrorized a small South Korean province in the early 1980s. Song plays a local officer trying to solve the crimes who is made to team up with a Seoul-based detective (Kim Sang-kyung, a sometimes Hong Sangsoo star), with the two of them scrambling to decipher clues and catch the culprit before it’s too late. In Korean with English subtitles. #memoriesofmurder #bongjoonho #koreancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The People's Joker Showtimes: 4/18(Thur)-4/21(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM THE PEOPLE'S JOKER has arrived!! Debuting on our big screen tonight at 7:30PM, and here to stay for the weekend. See you there! #thepeoplesjoker #veradrew #transcinema #queerfilm #lgbtq #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The People's Joker Showtimes: 4/18(Thur)-4/21(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Get ready!! Our special four-day screening event of THE PEOPLE'S JOKER starts tomorrow night, at 7:30PM!! #thepeoplesjoker #veradrew #transcinema #queerfilm #lgbtq #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: In the Mood for Love (花樣年華) Showtime: 4/16(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Screening tonight at 7PM!! One of Wong Kar Wai's most beloved films, the absolute stunner—IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. See you soon!! #inthemoodforlove #wongkarwai #hongkongcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: In the Mood for Love (花樣年華) Showtime: 4/16(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM (Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong, 98 minutes) Ranked the # 5 best film ever made in Sight & Sound Magazine’s influential 2022 poll, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love only looks better and better as the years pass. (And it looked incredible from day one!) After establishing an international reputation on the heels of his effervescent classics such as Chunking Express (1994) and Happy Together (1997), Wong dialed back the style he was so widely known for and made this, a reserved tale of romantic longing, set against the backdrop of 1962 Hong Kong. Moving into neighboring living quarters on the same day, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) are thrown together first by living circumstances, then by social circumstances, as it becomes clearer and clearer that their respective spouses are having an affair with one another. In Cantonese with English subtitles. #inthemoodforlove #wongkarwai #hongkongcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Rope Showtime: 4/11(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Screening tonight at 7:30PM! Hitchcock's first color film was also one of his most provocative. Don't miss this one-night-only opportunity to see ROPE on the big screen! #rope #alfredhitchcock #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Rope Showtime: 4/11(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, USA, 81 minutes) Though mostly remembered for being composed of ten-minute takes woven together and sneakily edited so that it appears that the film unfolds in real time in one long take, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 effort Rope, his first color film, has far more pleasures than just the ambitious choreography, cinematography, and editing. It’s informed by the 1924 “thrill killers” Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, here enacted by John Dall and Farley Granger. After killing their old prep school pal and tucking his body away into a chest, they proceed to host a dinner party and serve food directly over where the body is hidden. One of the people in attendance at the party is a beloved former teacher (James Stewart, in his first collaboration with Hitchcock), who starts to recognize that something is amiss. Here we see Hitchcock stretching his legs and showing off what he can do once free of his contract with producer David O. Selznick, with whom he’d signed shortly after coming to America. #rope #alfredhitchcock #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Flowers of Shanghai (海上花) Showtime: 4/9(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Screening tonight at 7PM! Hou Hsiao-hsien's FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is truly a sumptuous cinematic masterpiece to behold! We can't wait to show this recent 4K restoration on our big screen. Join us! #flowersofshanghai #houhsiaohsien #taiwanesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Flowers of Shanghai (海上花) Showtime: 4/9(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM We hope everyone had the opportunity to observe the solar eclipse today! Now, allow us to direct your attention to what's coming up next in our Tuesday night East Asian Cinema series—Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's stunning FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI. (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998, Taiwan, 113 minutes) Legendary Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien has proven adept at switching filmmaking modes throughout his career. His own, exemplified by renowned masterworks such as 1989’s A City of Sadness or 1993’s The Puppetmaster, show a grappling with history and place, rich characterization, near-novelistic plotting. As he sees fit, he is also quite capable in operating in an Ozu mode of resignment and loss (see 1985’s A Time to Live and a Time to Die or 2003’s Café Lumière), often eliding over key scenes, as Ozu was prone to, or else in a Wong Kar Wai mode of sumptuous visuals, cultural and temporal alienation, and youthful romantic follies (see 2001’s Film Series favorite Millennium Mambo or 2005’s Three Times). Perhaps his one film that best combines all three of these modes is 1998’s Flowers of Shanghai, adapted from Han Bangqing’s 1892 novel The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai. Flowers of Shanghai is set largely in “flower houses”—residences where courtesans entertain their clients—in a shroud of opium fog in late 19th century Shanghai, and the navigation of this world by both the courtesans and their regular clients. Hou is here collaborating with his usual screenwriter Chu T’ien-wen (who has a writing credit on all the above-mentioned films), the incredible cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bin, and A City of Sadness star Tony Leung, the latter two of which collaborators Wong Kar Wai shot In the Mood for Love with immediately after Flowers of Shanghai wrapped. In Shanghainese and Cantonese with English subtitles. #flowersofshanghai #houhsiaohsien #taiwanesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Calling all Webster students!! We are giving out 10 free passes to a special advance screening of A24's CIVIL WAR in IMAX–written and directed by Alex Garland, who made his directorial debut on EX MACHINA. Screening on Monday, 4/8 at 7PM, at Ronnie's Cinema + IMAX!! Passes are for current Webster students only. We are giving them out on a first-come first-served basis or until 11pm, April 6!! DM us your full name and your Webster email address to claim a pass! @webster_soc @websteru #websterfilmseries #StudentLife #WebsterUniversity
Title: Slam Showtime: 4/4(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Screening tonight at 7:30PM. We are excited to bring Marc Levin's SLAM back to the big screen–now in 4K restoration! #slam #marclevin #saulwilliams #blackcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂) Showtime: 4/2(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Screening tonight at 7PM. We kick off the return of our popular Tuesday night East Asian Cinema series with a rare screening of Zhang Yimou's RAISE THE RED LANTERN! #raisetheredlantern #zhangyimou #gongli #chinesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂) Showtime: 4/2(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Screening tomorrow night at 7PM, don't miss out on Zhang Yimou's RAISE THE RED LANTERN. It is currently unavailable to legally stream in America. We had to clear the rights to screen this film through its international rightsholder to bring you this rare treat! P.S. In case you are wondering, we have a DCP of this film, so yes, it will look great on our big screen! (Zhang Yimou, 1991, China/Hong Kong, 120 minutes) A significant arthouse hit when released in America in 1992, but then rarely receiving repertory screenings in the intervening 30 years, Zhang Yimou’s third film with his frequent collaborator Gong Li is engaging and stunningly gorgeous in a way that insists on the big screen. Gong plays Songlian, the young fourth wife of the wealthy lord Master Chen (Ma Jingwu, Tsui Hark’s Seven Swords). Songlian learns quickly her need to learn to navigate the situation she finds herself in: household tensions, strict rules, competition (of varying kinds) with the other wives. In Mandarin with English subtitles. #raisetheredlantern #zhangyimou #gongli #chinesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Happy April, STL film lovers & filmmakers! Spring has finally arrived, and with it brings the Webster Film Series's programming back to full swing! We have a great lineup of beloved modern classics (Zhang Yimou's RAISE THE RED LANTERN, Hou Hsiao-hsien's FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, Wong Kar Wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, Bong Joon Ho's MEMORIES OF MURDER, Lee Chang-dong's SECRET SUNSHINE); forgotten and/or underrated gems (Marc Levin's SLAM, Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE, Joseph H. Lewis's GUN CRAZY); and exciting new releases (Lea Glob's APOLONIA, APOLONIA, Vera Drew's THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, and the late legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's final concert film OPUS!) For more info on each film, go to our bio for link to our homepage. #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Elephant Man Showtime: 3/31(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Screening tonight at 7:30PM, for one night only! Don't miss out on the chance to see David Lynch's thought-provoking THE ELEPHANT MAN on our big screen. #theelephantman #davidlynch #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Elephant Man Showtime: 3/31(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM The Webster Film Series returns this Sunday with David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN! (David Lynch, 1980, USA, 124 minutes) The Elephant Man, director David Lynch’s second feature film, made three years after his breakthrough, Eraserhead, began to make audiences aware of just how much range this promising young talent had. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Lynch for Best Director and the film for Best Picture, The Elephant Man is based on the true story, set in Victorian England, of surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) and his discovery of the physically deformed John Merrick (John Hurt) in a circus sideshow. Subsequently, Treves takes an interest in Merrick’s welfare and comes to learn of his interior life and interests. #theelephantman #davidlynch #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Pictures of Ghosts Showtimes: 3/15(Fri)-3/17(Sun), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM Screening exclusively at the Webster Film Series tonight through Sunday night at 7:30PM! Kleber Mendonça Filho's new documentary PICTURES OF GHOSTS was Brazil's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards. #picturesofghosts #klebermendonçafilho #braziliancinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Spring Breakers Showtime: 3/14(Thur), at 7:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6:30PM A reminder— tonight's screening will start at 7:30PM! Please note as we've entered into Daylight Saving Time, we will start scheduling the majority of our screenings at 7:30PM instead of 7PM. (With the exception of our ongoing Tuesday night East Asian Cinema series, which will continue to screen at 7PM.) #springbreakersmovie #harmonykorine #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) Showtime: 3/12(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight at 7pm! The one that kickstarted the dystopian survival genre–BATTLE ROYALE. Will you be the last one standing? #battleroyale #kinjifukasaku #japanesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Nostalghia (in new 4K restoration!) Showtimes: 3/8(Fri)-3/10(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century– Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." NOSTALGHIA, now restored in 4K, is a poetic, dreamlike experience meant to be viewed on the big screen! #nostalghia #andreitarkovsky #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Our March calendar is here! We have the delightfully wacky HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS screening this weekend, 3/1 through 3/3. Andrei Tarkovsky's NOSTALGHIA—which has been restored in 4K, is coming to our big screen 3/8 through 3/10! Spring Break week will bring our unofficial East Asian Cinema series entry BATTLE ROYALE on Tuesday, 3/12; Harmony Korine's SPRING BREAKERS (duh) on Thursday, 3/14; the immediate weekend will see the premiere of Brazilian director Kleber Mendoça Filho's haunting documentary PICTURES OF GHOSTS, screening 3/15 through 3/17. Last but certainly never least, we'll wrap up the month of March with David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN on 3/31! In case you are wondering, our popular East Asian Cinema series will return in full force in April! (For more info on each film, go to our bio for 🔗 to our homepage) #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Hundreds of Beavers Showtimes: 3/1(Fri)-3/3(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM THEY ARE HERE!! HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is premiering tonight at 7PM, and here to stay through the weekend. Screening exclusively at Webster Film Series. Don't miss out on this delightfully outrageous slapstick comedy! #hundredsofbeaversmovie #mikecheslik #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Birth Showtime: 2/29(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight at 7PM, BIRTH is the 3rd screening we are co-presenting with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl as part of the "Critics Are Stupid" series! We're showing a critically-maligned film that either has received or deserves a reassessment. @thetakeupstl will discuss the film on their "Critics Are Stupid" podcast, which is easily accessible through their website. BIRTH is chosen by Andrew Wyatt, The Take-Up Podcast Host. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode wherein it is discussed, expected to drop on March 5. Visit @thetakeupstl 's website for link to podcast! #birth #jonathanglazer #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Birth Showtime: 2/29(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tomorrow night, we have the 3rd film in the "Critics Are Stupid" series co-presented with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl. BIRTH is chosen by Andrew Wyatt, The Take-Up Podcast Host. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode wherein it is discussed, expected to drop on March 5. Visit @thetakeupstl 's website for link to podcast! (Jonathan Glazer, 2004, USA, 96 minutes) Birth (39% RT): "A load of preposterous twaddle" (NY Observer). "A meticulously wrought piece of hokum" (Boston Globe). "Corny, plodding, implausible" (NY Daily News). Scorned by critics who bounced off its austere style and discomfiting premise, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth remains the British auteur’s most contentious work. When a 10-year-old boy appears at the door of a posh widow and declares that he is her reincarnated dead husband, her meticulously rebuilt life begins to crumble. From this scenario, Glazer weaves a stylish, deeply unsettling Upper East Side ghost story about the demonic obstinacy of love and the illogic of infatuation. Featuring a fantastic Nicole Kidman performance, a deep-bench supporting cast (Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston, Anne Heche), and peerless wintery New York City vibes captured on 35mm. #birth #jonathanglazer #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Police Story (警察故事) Showtime: 2/27(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight! Get your adrenaline pumping with Jackie Chan's signature death-defying action comedy POLICE STORY. #policestory #jackiechan #hongkongcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Police Story (警察故事) Showtime: 2/27(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Calling all Jackie Chan fans! Tomorrow night our popular East Asian Cinema series continues with Jackie at his best in POLICE STORY! (Jackie Chan, 1985, Hong Kong, 100 minutes) Last gracing the screen at the Webster Film Series in April 2019 to a very enthusiastic crowd, Jackie Chan’s blockbuster Police Story has him at his death-defying best. As the policeman Ka-Kui, who singlehandedly takes down the drug lord Chu Tao, only to see him released soon after and framing Ka-Kui for the murder of another cop as revenge, Jackie must clear his name, keep the case’s star witness, Salina Fong (Brigitte Lin, Chungking Express) safe, and not worry his girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love) too much. In the process he knocks down shantytowns, hangs from moving buses, and breaks all possible glass inside of a shopping mall. #policestory #jackiechan #hongkongcinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Arc of Oblivion Showtimes: 2/23(Fri)-2/25(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Opening tonight and here to stay through the weekend! We're pleased to present the St. Louis premiere and exclusive screening of the brand-new documentary The Arc of Oblivion, which just last week opened in New York City and garnered a rave review from Alissa Wilkinson in the New York Times. #thearcofoblivion #iancheney #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Truth About Charlie Showtime: 2/22(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight at 7PM, THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE is the 2nd of the three screenings (the 1st being GUMMO which screened on 2/8, and the 3rd being BIRTH, coming up on 2/29) we are co-presenting with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl as part of the "Critics Are Stupid" series! We're showing a critically-maligned film that either has received or deserves a reassessment. @thetakeupstl will discuss the film on their "Critics Are Stupid" podcast, which is easily accessible through their website. THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE is chosen by Joshua Ray @crispyretinas, The Take-Up Podcast Host. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode wherein it is discussed, expected to drop on February 27! #thetruthaboutcharlie #jonathandemme #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: The Truth About Charlie Showtime: 2/22(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tomorrow night, the 2nd in the "Critics Are Stupid" series co-presented with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl continues with THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE! Chosen by Joshua Ray @crispyretinas, The Take-Up Podcast Host. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode wherein it is discussed, expected to drop on February 27. Visit @thetakeupstl 's website for link to podcast! (Jonathan Demme, 2002, USA/France, 104 minutes) Mon Dieu! Someone shot the piano player breathless! I'm choosing The Truth About Charlie, the 2002 remake of the Audrey Hepburn/Cary Grant romantic thriller Charade. In it, Thandiwe Newton and Mark Wahlberg run delirious circles around the "City of Love" where cops are robbers, robbers are cops, and nothing--and no one--is exactly as it seems. With his globalized update, direct Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense) weaves a tangled web between a nascent digital era, Stanley Donen's Hitchcock-lite 1963 original, and the contemporaneous French New Wave. (Don't miss appearances by Agnès Varda, Charles Aznavour, and even Anna Karina singing a Serge Gainsbourg song.) As charmingly wonky and woozily romantic as the original classic, The Truth About Charlie is an undersung home run from one of cinema’s most creative and humane masters. #thetruthaboutcharlie #jonathandemme #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Dragon Inn (龍門客棧) Showtime: 2/20(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Coming to the big screen tonight! Taiwanese director King Hu leaves an indelible mark on the wuxia genre. His influence can be seen in later films such as Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers. Join us for a night of head-spinning martial arts adventure! #dragoninn #wuxia #kinghu #taiwanesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Dragon Inn (龍門客棧) Showtime: 2/20(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tomorrow! Our popular East Asian Cinema series continues with the archetypal wuxia (meaning "martial arts and chivalry") classic DRAGON INN. (King Hu, 1967, Taiwan, 111 minutes) Every major Chinese director seems to make at least one wuxia, something of the Chinese equivalent to the American Western or the Japanese samurai film, in their career. Wong Kar Wai made Ashes of Time, Hou Hsiao-hsien made The Assassin, Ang Lee made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The genre’s original cinematic master is Taiwan’s King Hu, whose wuxias Come Drink with Me and A Touch of Zen have both played at the Webster Film Series in the past few years. His game-changer, though, was 1967’s Dragon Inn, which finds rival political factions and other interested parties congregating at the Dragon Gate Inn, where the plan is to kill the exiled children of a recently-beheaded general. In Mandarin with English subtitles #dragoninn #wuxia #kinghu #taiwanesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Pandora's Box Showtimes: 2/16(Fri)-2/18(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Experience Louise Brooks as the femme fatale Lulu in this moody and compelling silent era classic! *tonight's screening will proceed as scheduled. We will make an announcement as soon as we can if we have to cancel. Please stay connected with us on Facebook and Instagram as we navigate these winter conditions. #pandorasbox #gwpabst #germancinema #silentfilm #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Pandora's Box Showtimes: 2/16(Fri)-2/18(Sun), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM (G.W. Pabst, 1929, Germany, 141 minutes) New 4K restoration! G.W. Pabst, Weimar master and discoverer of Greta Garbo, was at his creative and artistic peak in 1929, which year saw release of two films he directing that starred native Kansan Louise Brooks. October 1929’s The Diary of a Lost Girl is dreary and terrific, but the much more sensationalistic melodrama Pandora’s Box, released in January 1929, stands as one of the greatest of all silent films. Here Brooks’ mostly-innocent showgirl Lulu brings to heel all who come into contact with her. #pandorasbox #gwpabst #germancinema #silentfilm #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Swing Time Showtime: 2/15(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Join us for a musical evening with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers! #swingtime #gingerrogers #fredastaire #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Swing Time Showtime: 2/15(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate this holiday, and for those who don't, happy Wednesday🌹 (George Stevens, 1936, USA, 103 minutes) Starring the beloved dance team of Fred Astaire and Missouri’s own Ginger Rogers (who hailed from the Kansas City area and lived for a time here in St. Louis), Swing Time features the pair at their charismatic best. Astaire plays Lucky Garnett, a gambler who travels to New York City with the intent of raising the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée. Once there, he runs into Ginger Rogers’ dance instructor Penny Carrol, with whom he inevitably becomes entangled. #swingtime #gingerrogers #fredastaire #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Woman in the Dunes (砂の女/Suna No Onna) Showtime: 2/13(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Coming to the Webster Film Series tomorrow! As part of our ongoing East Asian Cinema series, we are showing a rare revival of Hiroshi Teshigahara's unnerving arthouse masterpiece WOMAN IN THE DUNES. Here for one night only! (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, Japan, 147 minutes) Garnering not only a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination but also a Best Director nomination for Hiroshi Teshigahara, the first time a Japanese director had made it into that category, Woman in the Dunes was a true sensation upon release. Adapted from Kōbō Abe’s also great novel of two years prior, Woman in the Dunes stars Eiji Okada (Hiroshima mon amour, Lady Snowblood) as an entomologist who ventures to a remote desert to study a rare beetle and, when he misses the bus back to Tokyo, finds himself taking shelter with a young widow who lives in a hut in the bottom of the sand dunes, who is constantly struggling to clear the sands that are always on the brink of engulfing her home. In Japanese with English subtitles. #womaninthedunes #hiroshiteshigaraha #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Showtimes: 2/9(Fri)-2/11(Sun), at 6:30PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 5:30PM Tonight at 6:30PM! We are delighted to present the St. Louis premiere of Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An's mesmerizing, existential directorial debut. Screening exclusively at the Webster Film Series tonight 2/9(Fri) through 2/11(Sun)! #insidetheyellowcocoonshell #Phamtienan #vietnamesecinema #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Gummo Showtime: 2/8(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM *Warning: Cat lovers should approach with extreme caution. Tonight at 7PM, GUMMO is the first of the three screenings (THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE screening on 2/22, and BIRTH screening on 2/29) we are co-presenting with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl as part of the "Critics Are Stupid" series! We're showing a critically-maligned film that either has received or deserves a reassessment. @thetakeupstl will discuss the film on their "Critics Are Stupid" podcast, which is easily accessible through their website. GUMMO is chosen by Pete Timmermann, Director of the Webster Film Series. Be sure to listen to the corresponding episode for GUMMO, where Pete will be joining The Take-Up crew to discuss the film, expected to drop on Feb 13!! #gummo #harmonykorine #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Gummo Showtime: 2/8(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Introducing GUMMO, the first film in the "Critics Are Stupid" series which we are delighted to be co-presenting with The Take-Up @thetakeupstl ! Chosen by Pete Timmermann, Director of the Webster Film Series. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode wherein it is discussed, expected to drop on February 13. Visit @thetakeupstl 's website for link to podcast! (Harmony Korine, 1997, USA, 89 minutes) Scoring 38% on the Tomatometer and a disastrous 19 on Metacritic (“overwhelming dislike”), Harmony Korine’s directorial debut Gummo is a bad taste epic from distributor New Line (soon to finance and release the Lord of the Rings trilogy), cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier (who the same year lensed Good Will Hunting), and co-starring Chloë Sevigny, who would within a couple of years garner an Oscar nomination. Korine, having come to fame for penning Larry Clark’s Kids a few years prior and only 24 at the time of Gummo’s release, sets his film in Xenia, Ohio, in the aftermath of a tornado. His characters are all disaffected, yes, kids, doing terrible things to relieve their boredom. Those who hail from small towns will relate. Cat lovers should approach with extreme caution. #gummo #harmonykorine #websterfilmseries #thetakeup #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Seven Samurai (七人の侍) Showtime: 2/6(Tue), at 6PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 5PM *The movie will play with a 5-minute intermission Need we say more? See you tonight! #sevensamurai #akirakurosawa #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Seven Samurai (七人の侍) Showtime: 2/6(Tue), at 6PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 5PM P.S. Please note movie will play with a 5-minute intermission (you may see some of our promo materials stating a 10-minute intermission, which is incorrect. We apologize for the oversight!) (Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan, 207 minutes) Arguably the most iconic film from Japan’s most iconic director and starring the country’s most iconic star, it’s hard to top Akira Kurosawa’s epic masterpiece Seven Samurai. A poor village of farmers narrowly avoid being raided by bandits and overhear them plotting to return after the harvest when the spoils will be better. The villagers thus seek to hire some rōnin to protect them before the bandits return, which group become the seven samurai of the title. Among the seven are Kurosawa regulars Toshiro Mifune as loose cannon Kikuchiyo and Takashi Shimura as the leader of the samurai, Kambei Shimada. As rich as it is entertaining, Seven Samurai is as satisfying as films come. In Japanese with English subtitles. #sevensamurai #akirakurosawa #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Occupied City Showtimes: 2/2(Fri)-2/4(Sun), at 6PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 5PM Tonight at 6PM! We are excited to host day one of the St. Louis premiere and exclusive run of Steve McQueen's new documentary OCCUPIED CITY, picked as the #4 best film of 2023 by Manohla Dargis at the New York Times. Only available this weekend Friday-Sunday, don't miss this powerful documentary. #stevemcqueen #occupiedcity #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Our February calendar has arrived! We have many exciting selections to share with you: in our ongoing East Asian Cinema series that screens on Tuesday nights–we have Akira Kurosawa's epic masterpiece SEVEN SAMURAI; the existential surrealist marvel WOMAN IN THE DUNES; the timeless wuxia classic DRAGON INN; and Jackie Chan at his best in POLICE STORY. (For more info on each film, go to our bio for 🔗 to our homepage) Co-presenting with @thetakeupstl as part of the “Critics Are Stupid” series: GUMMO, THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, and BIRTH. Be sure to listen to the podcast episodes wherein these films are discussed. (visit @thetakeupstl 's website for link to podcast!) Coming this weekend: We are proud to host the St. Louis premiere and exclusive run of Steve McQueen's new documentary OCCUPIED CITY – an unflinching exploration of wartime atrocities and how they affect the past, present, and future of Amsterdam. #stevemcqueen #occupiedcity #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Ugetsu (雨月物語) Showtime: 1/30(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight at 7PM! Our East Asian Cinema series continues with yet another rare treat on the big screen – Kenji Mizoguchi's mysterious fable UGETSU. #ugetsu #kenjimizoguchi #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: Ugetsu (雨月物語) Showtime: 1/30(Tue), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953, Japan, 97 minutes) An entry on the formative 1962 and 1972 Sight & Sound polls of the ten greatest films ever made (which same lists were key in codifying Citizen Kane as “the best film ever made”), Kenji Mizoguchi’s jidaigeki ghost story Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival and was one of the first films from a post-war Japan to be widely celebrated in the West. Ugetsu features Machiko Kyō (recognizable as the wife from Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon) as Lady Wakasa, one of two survivors of a raid by Nobunaga. Lady Wakasa seduces the already-married potter Genjūrō (Masayuki Mori, also of Rashomon), which seduction leads Genjūrō away from his loyal wife Miyagi (Kinuyo Tanaka, whose films as a director have been recently rediscovered by American audiences), an event that she had been warned by a sage would soon come to pass. In Japanese with English subtitles. #ugetsu #kenjimizoguchi #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity
Title: A Confucian Confusion Showtime: 1/26(Fri) & 1/28(Sun), at 7PM Title: Mahjong Showtime: 1/27(Sat) & 2/1(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Our celebration of Taiwanese master Edward Yang starts tonight at 7PM with A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION! Edward Yang's movies have remained somewhat elusive here in the States. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see them on the big screen! #edwardyang #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #websteruniversity
Title: The Smell of Money Showtime: 1/25(Thur), at 7PM Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium Box Office: Opens at 6PM Tonight at 7PM, ponder THE SMELL OF MONEY and the price of getting what we want on the dinner table. #thesmellofmoney #websterfilmseries #winifredmooreauditorium #stlarthousemovietheatre #websteruniversity