Curious Comic Strips
"You, the Living is film comedy stripped down to its essentials, every shot, utterance, gesture, edit, sound or movement serving some kind of comic purpose. It's slapstick removed from stuntwork, reduced to the level of everyday gesture to the point where a door being opened or a person looking down becomes a gag. Even the […]
Read More...Star Power
A film of exquisite poetry, both literary and visual, Bright Star is the true story of the 19th-century love affair between 23-year-old Romantic poet John Keats, and Fanny Brawn, the girl next door. Starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, Bright Star has been called "one of the most deeply moving romantic films in memory” (LA […]
Read More...Infinite Orbiting
"Hong Sang-soo is the kind of director who is in danger of being neglected on a film-by-film basis, because none of his films is so different from the others as to constitute an event. I think that Night and Day is Hong’s best film, and I’m worried that no one is going to notice. There’s […]
Read More...Inspector Guffaw
Dominic and D.C. of the Derrick Comedy troupe will be at Ragtag Cinema on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25-26 to present their nutty, nerdy, potty-mouthed comedy caper - and big screen debut - Mystery Team. After this weekend, Mystery Team continues through Thursday, October 1. As usual, showtimes are available on the calendar.
Read More...Back to Nature
"I hereby nominate Götz Spielmann as the most interesting filmmaker to whom nobody's paying any attention whatsoever. In execution, Revanche is a thing of sheer beauty, the kind of film in which the details of each individual scene -- composition, rhythm, performances, stray bits of business -- are all so perfectly judged that their cumulative […]
Read More...Westward Bound
Silent film score wunderkinds The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra perform their terrific original accompaniments to Buster Keaton's Go West and The 'High Sign' on Tuesday, September 22 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $8. Check out Sunday's Columbia Daily Tribune article about the band and watch them perform an excerpt of their Go West score […]
Read More...Honest-to-Goodness
Documentaries personal and funny (Paper Heart), historical and musical (Soul Power), and edge-of-your seat urgent (The Cove) open today at Ragtag Cinema. And due to its popularity this past week, we're holding over the hilarious political satire In the Loop. Coming soon: World's Greatest Dad, Bright Star, It Might Get Loud, and many more!
Read More...Movin' On Up
Gold Diggers of 1933 - that outrageous spectacle of dazzling dance numbers and Depression-era time capsule - plays tonight at 5:30 PM as part of Ragtag 101, our monthly series of film classics. Stick around after the movie for a presentation on Pre-Code Hollywood by film scholar Lokke Heiss!
Read More...Twilight Hours
"Alexander Sokurov is perhaps the most ambitious and original filmmaker working anywhere in the world today." - Susan Sontag Russian director Alexander Sokurov's The Sun plays on Wednesday and Thursday, September 16-17. The concluding installment of Sokurov's trilogy of intimate, eccentric portraits of despots, The Sun transports us back almost 70 years to the end […]
Read More...Ways of the Flesh
The surreal, visually impeccable, and "batshit-crazy" Taxidermia visits for an exclusive pair of screenings this Friday and Saturday, September 11 & 12 at 11:00pm. The trailer does a so-so job of conveying the film's overall strangeness, but we think the critically-divisive reviews provide a far more accurate sense of the intoxicating yet polaritizing effect of […]
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