November preview
Awards season is right around the corner and we're expecting Oscar-worthy performances from Matthew McConaughey and Robert Redford in Dallas Buyers Club and All is Lost, respectively. November is turning out to be short-films month here at Ragtag. We have our Local Filmmaker Showcase (featuring Paul's Dear Valued Guests), a free-form collection from Ryan Wylie, […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: Trafic
We just watched Jacques Tati's 1971 film Trafic in movie club. Tati is a master of transmuting the everyday-awkward into hilarious insanity. Here he focuses his gaze on a group of Parisian auto employees (Tati in his usual coat & hat) on their way to an auto show in Amsterdam. Highly recommended. Camp car!
Read More...Dallas Buyers Club
After enjoying Matthew McConaughey in the excellent Mud and Bernie, we're happy to announce the return of McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, the story of an HIV-positive rabble-rousing-cowboy-turned-street-pharmacist who sets out treating himself and others with his own drug cocktails. Set in 80s Texas and inspired by true events, we're really looking forward to it. Expect it around […]
Read More...Lake Windfall at Jesse
There's a cool screening tomorrow at Jesse Auditorium — Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7pm. Lake Windfall is a post-apocalyptic thriller performed, produced and written by deaf actors and professionals from Missouri. The language of the movie is American Sign Language with subtitles. Tickets are $15. All proceeds benefit The L.E.A.D. Institute's summer substance abuse prevention […]
Read More...Happy Halloween
A huge thanks to Uprise Bakery for putting on the best party of the year. Rock'n'roll.
Read More...CBGB at The Blue Note
The Blue Note is screening the film CBGB Saturday, November 9 @ 7pm. CBGB is a fictionalized account of the beginnings of the famous NY nightclub and the burgeoning punk scene of the late 70s/early 80s. It features Alan Rickman as club-owner Hilly Kristal and Rupert "Ron Weasley" Grint as Cheetah Chrome. Tickets on sale […]
Read More...CoMo Films @ The Bridge
The Bridge is hosting a local film showcase as well (since all good things come in pairs): The Columbia Film Showcase, Saturday November 9 @ 9pm. While we have a ~12-minute time limit for our program, The Bridge has a 90-minute limit. So if your film is too long for our show, send it to […]
Read More...Ragtag at 9th Street Vid
Now available in disk format: Only God Forgives Before Midnight The Waiting Room (T/F) Not ours, but you might also like: Paradise Faith A Man Named Pearl The Way Way Back The Conjuring Happy Halloween from everyone at Hittsville!
Read More...Boone Dawdle 2013
Relive the True/False Boone Dawdle in this video from Tiny Attic: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/76649776[/vimeo]
Read More...Notes from the attic: The Blind Swordsman
We just finished watching the first five Blind Swordsman films in movie club — The Tale of Zatoichi (1962), The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962), New Tale of Zatoichi (1963), Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963) and Zatoichi on the Road (1963). Zatoichi is one of the most popular characters in Japanese cinema: a good-natured blind masseur, […]
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