Why so serious?
On Friday, November 6, we unveil the new film from the brothers Cohen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading), the critically acclaimed A Serious Man. "This is by far the most personal and revealing film the Coens have ever made, which might not seem like saying much," writes Andrew O'Hehir. "They're known […]
Read More...Cerebral Song
On Tuesday, November 3, jazz guitar virtuoso Pat Martino will visit Ragtag Cinema for a Q&A after Martino Unstrung. The film tells the incredible story of the guitarist's hard-fought comeback after emergency brain surgery stripped him of his memory and thus ability to play. Advance tickets for Martino Unstrung are on sale at the Ragtag […]
Read More...Crisis Management
Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore’s latest call to arms against big business coruption, begins this weekend. We hope you join us this Friday, Oct. 29 at 5:30 for the film's premiere and a Q&A with one of Moore's interviewees, William Black. An Associate Professor of Economics and Law at UMKC, Black served as a […]
Read More...Down the Hatch
"For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, "35 Shots of Rum," is surely one of her finest -- and thereby one of […]
Read More...Blood Visions
Calling all walking dead! Thirst, a new batshit-crazy, grand guignol vampire adventure from genre visionary Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), opens Friday, October 23, and to celebrate we're offering vampires $5 discounted tickets to the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday shows. Remember, blood suckers: we want to see fangs! Check out the red-band Thirst […]
Read More...Faraway, So Close!
"What I find really fascinating about cinema is how it allows you to get very close to people but not actually know anything that’s going on inside of them. I find this very sexy, in a way—being so close but not know what’s going on." -- Lucrecia Martel, director of The Headless Woman The Headless […]
Read More...Citizen Jane Films Continue This Week
We hope everyone who attended the Citizen Jane Film Festival this past weekend enjoyed the excellent films, informative discussions, and all around affable atmosphere. In case you were busy seeing the short films and documentaries and missed the fiction features, we're happy to inform you that we're holding Lemon Tree for another showing on Tuesday […]
Read More...Hey Ladies!
Come by Ragtag this weekend for the Citizen Jane Film Festival, a fantastic program of some of the best new films featuring women behind and in front of the camera. This year’s lineup includes visits by legendary avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer, Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal with her new film Act of God, animators Tiny Circus […]
Read More...Feast of Feasts
"It’s a delicate thing for me, to be true to Haiti and use the country as a kind of archetype for the meeting between Haiti’s landscape and France’s, between North and South. It’s the meeting between people who have a power relationship. Master and servant. Black and white. These are useful colours to use in […]
Read More...Roy Andersson: Adman Extraordinaire
Columbia Daily Tribune arts writer Aarik Danielson recently blogged about this week's Passport Series film, You, the Living and the brilliantly funny television commercials by director Roy Andersson. Sample some of Andersson's commericals in the video below (tip: the funniest begin at 1:37).
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