Webster Film Series

The Webster University Film Series, St. Louis' cinematic alternative since 1979, is a nationally known and recognized year-round film exhibition program.

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TONIGHT is the U.S. premiere of the new 4K restoration of HEROIC TIMES! Showtime 7:30pm. Also screens tomorrow & Sunday.

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(final show 7:00 p.m. tonight! don't miss it!)

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TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday): We're pleased to show Jean Eustache's legendary (and legendarily difficult to see) THE MOTHER & THE WHORE at 7:00pm each night! Note that early start time. Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud (Antoine Doinel himself), TM&tW turns 50 this year.

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Here's our August lineup:

8/4-17: Afire @janusfilms
8/18-20: Plan 75 @KimStimFilms
8/24: The Five Devils @mubi
8/25-27, 7:30pm: Kokomo City @MagnoliaPics
8/25-27, 10:00pm: Beaten to Death @WelcomeVillain
8/29: Bobi Wine: The People's President @VarianceFilms + @natgeodocs

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We have most of August and September booked now, so look for lots of programming announcements in the coming days. Here's an especially good one, though:

George Kuchar on 16mm!

9/14: Hold Me While I'm Naked + Color Me Shameless + The Sunshine Sisters

9/21: The Devil's Cleavage

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TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday): Alexandre O. Philippe's new film essay LYNCH/OZ, about the enduring influence of The Wizard of Oz on David Lynch, runs at 7:30pm! Featuring John Waters, Karyn Kusama, David Lowery as commentators.

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TONIGHT: We have the 2021 Alexandre O. Philippe doc, THE TAKING, in advance of Philippe's new film, Lynch/Oz, playing this weekend! The Taking looks at Monument Valley's place amongst America's symbolic locations--you know it from John Ford movies, but it's so much more. 7:30pm.

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TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday): We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of British folk horror classic THE WICKER MAN by showing its new 4K restoration at 7:30pm! @Webster_SOC Associate Dean (and Grave Tales professor) Aaron AuBuchon introduces tonight (Friday) only.

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COMING SOON: We are thrilled to have booked the Silver Bear-winning AFIRE, from director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Phoenix, Transit), in an unprecedented-for-us two week run! It will open August 4 and play at 7:30pm every night through August 17.

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TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday): We are very excited to run the new 4K restoration of Béla Tarr’s 2000 feature Werckmeister Harmonies, which we have been looking forward to since it was announced! Showtime 7:30pm, with just one one-minute trailer running prior to the film starting.

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TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday): We're showing Pierre Földes's new animated feature BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN, based on the short stories of Haruki Murakami! Murakami also wrote the source material for Film Series hits Burning and Drive My Car. Showtime 7:30pm each night.

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TONIGHT is closing night of the GAY ASIA program! Last up is Mika Ninagawa's bonkers color bomb HELTER SKELTER in an incredibly rare US screening! Showtime 7:30pm. Stars Erika Sawajiri, with Nao Omori (Ichi the Killer), Lily Franky (Shoplifters), Kiko Mizuhara (Norwegian Wood).

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Programming announcements:

7/13: The Taking (doc about Monument Valley, AZ) @dekanalog_

7/21-23: The Mother & the Whore (new 4K restoration) @janusfilms

7/28-30: Heroic Times (Hungarian animation; U.S. premiere of new 4K restoration!) @DeafCrocodile

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TONIGHT is the encore screening of the GAY ASIA title FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES, which we're screening at 7:30pm! Note that this screening isn't/wasn't on the original materials for Gay Asia; we added it late. Final screening of Funeral Parade, and penultimate Gay Asia overall!

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TONIGHT: GAY ASIA continues with a screening of Nagisa Ōshima's 1983 David Bowie vehicle MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE, set in WWII Japan and costarring future director/actor Takeshi Kitano and Ryuichi Sakamoto, RIP, who also wrote the film's score. Showtime 7:30pm, no trailers.

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Special thanks to our sponsors @gateway_korea and @LeftBankBooks. If you haven't read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, the source material for The Handmaiden, pick it up at Left Bank!

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TONIGHT: GAY ASIA continues with the lone screening of Chan-wook Park's 2016 hit THE HANDMAIDEN, which we're running at 7:30pm! Remember that we have a surprise for you attached to this screening; we'll inform you what it is when you're getting your tickets at the box office.

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TONIGHT: GAY ASIA continues with a screening of the 1969 Japanese avant-garde gender nonconforming classic FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES, playing at 7:30pm! Note that we recently added an encore screening of this one; it comes back on 6/20. Big thanks to sponsors @STLMetroTrans!

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TONIGHT: The GAY ASIA program returns with the second and final showing of Wong Kar Wai's HAPPY TOGETHER, which we will run at 7:30pm! Always such a treat to see any wkw on the big screen, especially when he has his 90s gang of Tony, Leslie, Chris, & William working with him.