Notes from the attic: Thieves' Highway
We just watched Jules (Rififi) Dassin's 1949 trucker noir in movie club. Nick comes home from he war to find is father has been crippled by a crooked San Francisco grocer. With his war pay he buys a truck and a load of apples and heads to market for payback. But will 36 sleepless hours, […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: Crystal Fairy
We got the chance to sneak a peek at Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus & 2012 last week in movie club. You should be able to see it starting the 16th. This small, largely-improvised Chilean film is worth seeing just for the contrast between Michael Cera's extreme churlishness and the Silva brothers' good-natured sweetness. […]
Read More...A movie in the park
CANCELLED because of wetness. See Brave next month, 8pm, Sept 13. If it's not raining tomorrow (Friday the 9th), you can see Escape from Planet Earth at 8:30pm in Flat Branch Park. Admission is $2 per person, kids 8 and under are free. Concessions are available, just bring a blanket or low lawn chair! This […]
Read More...Member review
One of our members, Rod, wrote this nice review of Fill the Void: Yesterday at Ragtag Cinema I saw a beautiful film depicting the tensions of living within one’s culture fully and completely to the extreme point of self-sacrifice mixed perhaps with a bit of love. The film is Fill the Void (Lemale et Ha’halal), […]
Read More...Budding filmmakers—
Here's some fun script advice from Sam (Peep Show, Four Lions) Bain: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jul/31/sam-bain-how-to-write-screenplay-script
Read More...The To Do List is coming!
Come see The To Do List, featuring the great Aubrey Plaza in a new sex-comedy from a women's perspective (straight from the early 90s). We'll be opening it around the 16th. Here's a review from Bilge Ebiri. And watch the trailer: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd4QczxPahw[/youtube]
Read More...Notes from the attic: The Sword of Doom
We watched The Sword of Doom (1966) this week in movie club, the story of a totally insane samurai and the wake of carnage and mayhem that follows him. The sword fighting in this film ranks pretty high on the badass meter.
Read More...Ragtag at 9th Street Video
Now available for home viewing: Quartet Stoker A Place at the Table Bidder 70 The House I Live In Spring Breakers (Ragtag approved) Upstream Color The Gatekeepers Boy Trance Ginger & Rosa (we thought about showing it) Oscar Shorts
Read More...Last Picture Show @ MoAA
You can see Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) at the Museum of Art & Archaeology tomorrow (Friday) at 7pm. 106 Pickard Hall on MU's campus. Free, of course. And then come to Ragtag on August 16 or 17 and see Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?
Read More...Dear Valued Campfire
Our very own Paul Sturtz teamed up with filmmaker Jarred Alterman a while back to make a short film about the now-razed Regency Hotel, Dear Valued Guests, much beloved by visiting filmmakers. It screened at this year's True/False Film Fest in a shorts collection and has since been workin' the fest circuit (just playing in […]
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