Halloween with the Dude
Here're some photos from Halloween weekend, where we showed The Big Lebowski (on 35mm) and Uprise Bakery held their usual amazing Halloween dance party. The Stingrays belted out the Credence before Lebowski. And, getting ready for the big party... "Hey, I'm making a giant spider here." "Hey Steph." "Mmm, bats." And what Halloween party would […]
Read More...December film preview
Here's a peek at some of the films we have planned for next month: Like Crazy is opening December 2. A young couple in love with visa issues. I think you'll see a longer trailer on IMDb than we're showing here at the cinema. This trailer features Jennifer Lawrence opposite Anton Yelchin, just like in […]
Read More...2012 True/False passes now on sale!
Jump on over to truefalse.org and pick up your pass to the 2012 True/False Film Festival, March 1-4. All passes are on sale, from the Simple to the Super Circle. A pass is the best way to maximize your festival enjoyment, as it allows you to reserve tickets in advance (usually a week or two […]
Read More...T/F Global Journalist Forum with "Better This World" Wednesday, November 16 at 6:30pm
Join us for a screening and discussion of "Better This World," the controversial film about two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas who wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Presented by True/False and the Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, with a free-ranging panel after the film with co-director Katie […]
Read More...Thanks for coming to our Passport films!
And a big thank you to all our tour guides, who volunteered their time and expertise after the movies. And, of course, three cheers to Chris Boeckmann for finding all the films. Here's a photo I took from the projection booth of Reza Sadeghi's White Meadows discussion (second night). I think Reza was our most […]
Read More...Urbanized comes to Ragtag this Friday
Urbanized, the new doc about the design of cities, opens this Friday the 11th at 7:15pm. Here's a great article from Justin McGuirk at the Guardian. And here's what I have to say: Urbanized is from director Gary Hustwit, the man behind the font-doc Helvetica (2007) and the design documentary Objectified (2009). I guess you […]
Read More...Give the Gift of Ragtag!
Ragtag gift cards and memberships are available for purchase at the box office. Support your friend's movie habit AND help out your local independent cinema.
Read More...The film "Weekend" opens Friday, Nov. 11
"There is also a need for stories that address the complex entanglements of love and sex honestly, without sentiment or cynicism and with the appropriate mixture of humor, sympathy and erotic heat. Weekend, Andrew Haigh's astonishingly self-assured, unassumingly profound second feature, is just such a film." (A.O. Scott, The New York Times)
Read More...Pruitt-Igoe Myth with director Chad Freidrichs in person: Wed., Nov 9, at 5:30pm
One night only! St. Louis' famed Pruitt-Igoe urban housing projects were supposed to be a modernist exercise in utopian habitats. Completed in 1955, the complex adhered to the overly optimistic city planning of the time. Of course, theory bumped up against practice, leading to deplorable conditions in less than two decades. Freidrichs has won wide acclaim […]
Read More...Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) One night only! Fri., Nov. 4 at 9:30pm
Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence): Lady, if you have to ask... "Far more grotesque than the first Human Centipede — in fact,The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) could be the sickest B movie ever made." (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) One night only. Friday, Nov. 4 at 9:30pm
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