A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 10/13/21
Hello cinema friends, Allow us to bring the weird and the wonderful into sharper focus this week as we highlight two films gracing our screens beginning Friday. Between swirling, grainy, overcranked found footage and seconds-long flashes of seminal experimental films, the Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale appears in close-up: “There was always a standard that was […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 10/08/21
Hello cinema friends, Two questions: What makes a work of art? And, what makes a family? This weekend we welcome two very different films to the Cinema that ask these two very different questions. A badly damaged painting in the Renaissance style appears before a small-time art dealer. Something about this unremarkable antique captures the imagination of our dealer, […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 9/29/21
Friends, September draws to a close, and we find ourselves on the precipice of what leading meteorologists and cultural institutions alike refer to as… spooky season. The temperatures finally drop, darkness catches up with us earlier everyday, and Ragtag’s showtimes run later into the night. With these natural phenomena come films a bit more… wicked. Chief among them […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 9/22/21
Greetings adventurous viewers and furious readers, I did not grow up in Columbia, and I did not have a Ragtag. For that matter, I didn’t grow up anywhere with any real access to film beyond the Blockbuster between the PetSmart and the Dressbarn. How I found myself at 18 years old in Boston projecting short […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 9/15/21
Greetings from (virtual) Toronto, Columbia’s streets are dotted with ranch houses built in the two decades immediately following World War II — like some of you reading this, I live in one of them. At some point in the life of my house, perhaps inspired by sitcom television or Bob Villa, its basement was converted into what […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 9/8/21
Greetings Cinema friends, In the late-1960s, following the demise of the Hollywood studio system, a new generation of scrappy, young, and mostly bearded filmmakers emerged from the fledgling film programs at UCLA and NYU. Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Brian DePalma, John Milius, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese: cultural critics Lynda Myles and Michael Pye deemed them The […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 9/1/21
Let’s get cryptic, friends, Since the invention of motion pictures, animation has crept in and out of the frame, granting filmmakers and dedicated imagineers license to innovate and push beyond the realms of the real. Despite a well earned reputation over some hundred years, animation was never strictly for children, and there exist myriad mind-expanding […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER - 8/25/21
Willkommen! And bienvenue! Welcome! For the uninitiated, our fair city of Columbia bucks tradition and annually celebrates Pride in August, culminating in a two day blow out Mid-Missouri Pride Fest at Rose Music Hall on the 28th and 29th. This year, in concert with the official goings-on, we’re pulling back the black velvet curtains to […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER - 8/18/21
Why horror, Cinema friends? For those amongst our readership who need no cajoling to wade waist-deep into the darker realms of projected entertainment, I apologize. For the terror-averse, the cajoling begins now. This Friday, we open The Night House, an unnerving and genuinely terrifying mystery that surrounds a recently widowed Rebecca Hall left with the lake house her […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PRESS & MARKETING MANAGER - 8/11/21
Hey Ragtagsters, As I grow older in years (and yet newer every day), I’ve noticed I become more and more particular. I’m becoming the type of person who refuses to allow people and experiences to waste my time—in fact, I get irritated when I feel they do. I walked out on a movie for the […]
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