eCupid plays Sat. June 11 as part of Mid-Mo Pridefest
Sat. June 11 @ 1pm. Free! Live Q&A with star Noah Schiffman and director JC Calciano following the film. Marshall (Houston Rhines) is a cocky young ad man working at a dead-end job, and fter seven years with his boyfriend, Gabe (Noah Shuffman), he's desperate for a new life. He goes looking for it online, […]
Read More...THE RATS & PEOPLE ORCHESTRA returns June 22 and 23!
Ragtag favorites, The Rats & People Orchestra, return for a two-day residency, performing their live scores to two great silent films. Regular tickets are $10, member tickets are $6. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922, 104 min.) This legendary silent quasi-documentary from Denmark is a favorite of the surrealists — a witches' […]
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Werner Herzog's latest, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, opens July 15
Read More...Homebrewed: Putty Hill, Wed June 8 at 7pm
Our new series celebrates the most adventurous, well-crafted American independent narrative features of the past year. Putty Hill featuring a live Skype Q&A with director Porterfield! A fascinating and beautiful hybrid of documentary and narrative, Putty Hill is director Matt Porterfield's remarkably perceptive film about life in working class Baltimore. In it, a (real-life) community gathers […]
Read More...Pruitt-Igoe Myth opens May 27
with director Chad Freidrichs in person at weekend shows. Details the birth, life and death of America's first major urban housing project in St. Louis. "An uncommonly artful example of film journalism. Designed to counter certain untruths that arose from the widely publicized detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe project."--ROBERT KOEHLER, Variety Watch the trailer.
Read More...The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Morgan Spurlock's newest, opens May 27
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock examines the world of product placement, marketing and advertising by making a film entirely financed by product placement and advertising. "Spurlock says he's not selling out, he's buying in. I'm buying into Spurlock. As ever, he makes you laugh till it hurts."--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Watch the trailer.
Read More...Mothers Courage showing Sat., May 7
Mothers Courage captures the resilience of women survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide through the courageous story of Athanasie Mukarwego. It is her brave story of recovery that offers the world a lesson in healing, forgiveness, and determination. It also sheds light on how a small African country turned a tragedy that claimed nearly a million […]
Read More...Call Her Savage, the Clara Bow talkie, Wednesday, May 4 at 6pm
As Texas heiress Nasa Springer, Clara Bow gets to whip Gilbert Roland, have a cat fight with Thelma Todd, beat Monroe Owsley senseless, smash a guitar over a servant's head, and run wild from Texas to New York City just in time to punch out a man in a gay bar with singing waiters. Yes, […]
Read More...Lost Boys of Sudan, Sunday, May 1 at 10am
A remarkably revealing investigation of the American Dream, circa 2000. Presented by STAND Mizzou, whose president, Sam Ott, will lead a post-film Q&A discussion.
Read More...TEDxComo event happening May 1
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. It is an evening of informal talks, videos and performances which celebrate ideas worth sharing because ideas are the beginnings of the worlds to come; the world as we would have […]
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