STL native and Back to the Future writer and creator, Bob Gale, will do a special preshow Q&A in celebration of Back to the Future: The Musical playing The Fabulous Fox for two weeks only beginning September 24th!
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.
After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.
One of the greatest achievements in the cinematic revolution known as Italian neorealism, Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine stands as a timeless masterpiece of trenchant social observation and stirring emotional humanism.
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
“Crop dustin’ where there ain’t no crops,” the Mount Rushmore duel, the train going into the tunnel. Classic Hitchcock set-pieces just keep coming as Cary Grant’s Roger O. Thornhill (initials ROT) finds a simple case of mistaken identity snowballing into a breakneck chase across the country, menaced by James Mason and his goon squad, and aided, teased, and thwarted by Eva Marie Saint’s double (or triple?) agent.
Read the book. Watch the movie. Discuss them both!
Movie Book Club: The Exorcist
This month, we will be reading The Exorcist by William Peter Beatty., and watching the film The Exorcist by William Friedkin. The movie will begin at 3pm. Following the conclusion of the movie, we will gather in the theater for an hour long discussion!
Cinema St. Louis has the opportunity to own and establish a dedicated venue where the organization can make film and film education accessible to all who seek it.