Filmmaker Magazine
We have a cool show next Wednesday, November 20, at 5:30pm. Three filmmakers featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of 2013 list will be here with their short films. And don't forget to pick up a free copy of Filmmaker Magazine the next time you're at Hittsville — it features an interview with All […]
Read More...Ragtag @ 9th Street Vid
Now available for private viewing: Lovelace Blackfish (T/F) Frances Ha The Attack Trailered but didn't play: Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green) Didn't screen at RT, but you might like: Byzantium (vampires in Ireland from Neil Jordan) Renoir
Read More...Inequality for All
We'll be playing the documentary Inequality for All for one week starting tomorrow. The 6pm Friday screening with have a post-film Q&A with local economy experts. Read a review from NPR. Here's economist Robert Reich promoting the film on Conan: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r1lZsc9rX4[/youtube]
Read More...Our partners in ed
Every Halloween Ragtag visits the kids at Lee Elementary for a fun film-related project. This year the kids watched James and the Giant Peach and then decorated origami balloons. It's Professor McGonagall and gassy grandpa!
Read More...Nebraska
Bruce Dern and Will Forte play father and son in this new Midwestern tale from Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendents, About Schmidt). Dern's character is a stubborn old man who sets out on foot from Montana to Nebraska to collect his imagined sweepstakes winnings. We're really looking forward to Nebraska. Expect it mid-December. Further reading: […]
Read More...Notes from the attic: Women in Cages
Sometimes it's fun to to trash it up with a good old-fashioned exploitation flick. We just watched the Roger Corman-produced Women in Cages (1971) in movie club, where a young American in the Philippines falls in with a drug trafficking "player" and gets a 10-year sentence in an all-women prison ruthlessly run by a young […]
Read More...Free screening at DBRL
The public library will have a free screening of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers tomorrow, November 13, as part of their Center Aisle Cinema series. 6:30pm in the Friends Room.
Read More...Classic Hollywood in wood
We got an email from Loren the Woodcutting Fool today, alerting us to his craft of making block prints of classic Hollywood stars (and other luminaries). We here at Ragtag love woodcuts and Hollywood actors, so it's too perfect not to share. Lauren Bacall
Read More...Remember Kickstarter?
It's been a year since you helped us buy our fancy new digital projection system. We can't thank you enough for that — it was truly a highlight in Ragtag's existence. We hope you like how it looks and sounds as much as we do. If you donated through Kickstarter, this is a reminder that […]
Read More...We got your movies
A big thanks to all the filmmakers who submitted movies for our Local Shorts program. We received quite a few and we're still watching them (we'll be in touch soon). If you'd like to watch what we pick, be at Ragtag this Monday at 9pm. It's free and open to everyone! Our first film will […]
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