Round and Round
In the Loop starts Friday, September 11! Don't miss this viciously hilarious poli farce from the creators of the BBC hits The Thick of It, I'm Alan Patridge, and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Patridge. The Village Voice's Melissa Anderson describes the film as "An acidly funny satire about politics and pomposity." Of the […]
Read More...Come Rain or Come Shine
The lineup for Body & Soul: Jazz on Film, a film series co-produced by Ragtag Cinema and the "We Always Swing" Jazz Series, is now available. Check back for further details as they develop.
Read More...World of Wonder
"The only way to make a movie like this is if you love the place." - Sergei Dvortsevoy, director of Tulpan Distinguished by its warm and humorous treatment of its characters and its string of spectacular long-takes that capture the unruly weather conditions of Kazakhstan's Hunger Steppe, Tulpan transcends its folktale conventions and becomes an […]
Read More...News Alert
A quick reminder that tonight at 7:00pm is your final chance to catch True/False 2009 sensation Burma VJ, the groundbreaking documentary thriller about Burmese renegade journalists. A.O. Scott of The New York Times finds it to be “a rich, thought-provoking film not only because of the story it tells, which is by turns inspiring and […]
Read More...Running Scared
The Chaser, the grisly detective chiller that became one of Korean cinema's biggest hits last year, plays Friday & Saturday, September 4-5 at 11:00pm. Don't miss this kick-ass genre flick before Hollywood remakes it! “In the case of the serial-killer thriller, Na’s beaten the U.S. at its own game.” Read the rest of Jeff Reichert's […]
Read More...Mystical Melodies
The Passport Series continues this Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00pm with Tokyo Sonata, the funny, menacing, and altogether difficult-to-classify family melodrama by philosophical J-horror visionary Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Bright Future, the original Pulse). Enjoy a taste of sparkling sake before the film and stay after for a discussion with cineaste Jai Amrod about […]
Read More...Passport Series 2009 Starts August 26
A last minute reminder that the Passport Series – Ragtag Cinema’s annual program of cutting-edge new films from around the world – kicks off tonight at 7:00pm with The Song of Sparrows, a lyrical new Iranian film about family, class, ostriches(!), and tradition by Majid Majidi, the director of Academy Award-winner The Children of Heaven […]
Read More..."Objectified" Ends Thursday, August 27
Don't miss Objectified, an elegant new documentary on contemporary design, before it ends this week. It shows on Tue, Aug. 25 at 9:00, Wed, Aug. 26 at 9:30, and Thurs, Aug. 27 at 5:15. Click here to watch the preview.
Read More...Opening "The Hurt Locker"
"The Hurt Locker is the best nondocumentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq. This may sound like faint praise... So let me put it another way. If The Hurt Locker is not the best action movie of the summer, I'll blow up my car." (A.O. Scott, New York Times) Click here to […]
Read More...Strangers in the Far Side of Paradise
Ragtag 101 returns on Thursday, August 20 at 5:30pm with Johnny Guitar, one of the most vibrant and dynamic Westerns of all time. Directed by Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In A Lonely Place), it's a heady concoction of a film -- an anti-McCarthyist allegory, a generic commentary on gender, and, like all of […]
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