"RiP: A Remix Manifesto" - Two Nights Only!
This weekend we're hosting an exclusive pair of screenings of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a brand-spanking new documentary about copyright and remix culture featuring interviews with hit mash-up artist Girl Talk, Brazil's Minister of Culture and boss nova artist Gilberto Gil, and other music pioneers and thinkers. RiP shows Friday at 11:30 PM and Saturday […]
Read More...Passion Plays
Two wildly different movies open Friday, June 5 for one-week runs: Hunger, a staggeringly visceral recreation of the IRA's prison hunger strike in the early '80s, and Paris 36, a light and funny tribute to pre-WWII French vaudeville. Check out Hunger's trailer and Paris 36's trailer, and visit the calendar for showtimes.
Read More...Finishing This Week
Thursday, June 4 is your final chance to catch the warm and delightful Is Anybody There? (7:00 PM) and the elegiac period film Everlasting Moments (6:30 PM).
Read More...Audience Friendly
A friendly reminder: Tonight, Thursday, May 28, is your last chance to see Audience of One (9:15 PM), Gomorrah (6:15 PM) and Sunshine Cleaning (7:00).
Read More..."The Accidental Advocate"
The Ragtag Cinema, in partnership with the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, is hosting a free, one-time-only screening of The Accidental Advocate, on Tuesday, May 26 at 7:00 PM. The documentary chronicles how a father's struggle to overcome a life-altering injury inspires his family to take up the cause for stem cell research. After the […]
Read More...Murder, Lies, Deception
Opening this week are three terrific films you won't see anywhere else: the Martin Scorsese-endorsed ("despairing, but also enlightening and, because of its frankness, strangely heartening"), Academy nominated and Cannes awarded, scorched-earth mafia labyrinth Gomorrah, True/False '08 favorite Forbidden Lie$, and Shall We Kiss?, a fanciful romantic comedy from - you guessed it - France. […]
Read More...Miracle Worker
If you've been sitting out Ragtag's essential series of Preston Sturges films and are considering one film, make it The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the funniest, craziest, and most subversive stroke of brilliance by Sturges and his family of actors. Noted for undermining the arbitrary, laughable Production Code standards set by Hollywood's self-censoring organization, the […]
Read More..."The Life of Reilly" Ends Thursday!
You have only two more days to see The Life of Reilly and experience Charles Nelson Reilly's exuberant, funny, and bracingly honest final testament to show business and a life lived with grace -- Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00 PM and Thursday, May 14 at 5:00 PM. Don't miss it, damnit!
Read More...Jet sets
We're nearly halfway through the year, and so far 2009 hasn't offered much in the way of well-crafted movie pleasure. Thank goodness, then, for Duplicity, the new film by Michael Clayton writer/director Tony Gilroy. Essentially an airtight yarn of spy-vs.-spy game-playing, it's the smartest, sexiest movie to be released this year, and features some of […]
Read More...Movie Madness
Lots of exciting new releases to see at Ragtag this weekend. The Great Buck Howard and Sunshine Cleaning open Friday, May 1. Wendy and Lucy and Adventureland continue through next Wednesday the 6th and Thursday the 7th, respectively. Check the calendar for showtimes.
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