TONIGHT through SUNDAY we're showing the new Taiwanese film DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER, starring Film Series favorite Sylvia Chang (Shanghai Blues, Mountains May Depart, Long Day's Journey into Night), & executive produced by another Film Series favorite, Hou Hsiao-hsien. Showtime 7:00 pm each night!

Announcing our coming program: ADJANUARY! Featuring eight of Isabelle Adjani's best films (including four César wins for best actress, two Oscar noms), two guest speakers, one 35mm print. Event listings on our website now. Below program trailer edited by our own Angela Guo. vimeo.com/1145466305

TONIGHT and THURSDAY (but not tomorrow) we are bringing the beavers back home: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is playing here, its first St. Louis venue, for the first time since March 2024! Showtime 7:00pm. Free mini-posters to the first ten attendees each night!

TONIGHT is our free admission show of Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 screwball classic WHAT'S UP, DOC?, showing as a wedding party / anniversary celebration of sorts for friends of the Film Series Joshua Ray and Victor Putinier! Showtime 7pm, entirely free and open to the public.

December! 12/7: What's Up, Doc? (free admission) 12/9 + 11: Hundreds of Beavers 12/12-14: Daughter's Daughter (starring Sylvia Chang, EP Hou Hsiao-hsien) 12/16: Millennium Mambo 12/18: Resurrection (sneak preview; returns for seven shows in January) 12/19-21: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Head's up if you're planning to come to tonight's show of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk: We had a big group ticket buy and have very few remaining seats left to sell. It will likely fully sell out. Box office opens at 6:00pm tonight. Arrive early if you're wanting to catch it!

Your final chances to see two of the most acclaimed documentaries of the year, ORWELL: 2+2=5 and PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK, are tonight and tomorrow, respectively! Orwell tonight at 7:00pm, PYSoYH&W tomorrow at 7. Audience response to both has been truly terrific so far. Don't miss out!

TONIGHT is the first night we're showing Sepideh Farsi's acclaimed new Palestinian doc PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK. Showtime 7:00pm. After tonight, it plays tomorrow, Tuesday, & Friday (Black Friday). With hugely charismatic photojournalist Fatma Hassona. www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ec...

It’s hard to find words for Sepideh Farsi’s PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK, a document of the ongoing genocide in Gaza that sent chills right through me. It’s essential viewing, and local screenings begin at @wufilmseries.bsky.social this Saturday. My review: bit.ly/4oMblTp

TONIGHT we return to Raoul Peck's ORWELL: 2+2=5 at 7:00pm! Tonight only we will be presenting the film with open captions. This is the penultimate screening of Orwell for us, with the one last screening being on Thanksgiving Day.

Good thing we've held onto this poster all this time... (Returning to the Webster Film Series December 9 and 11!)

TONIGHT is the second of our four total shows of Raoul Peck's ORWELL: 2+2=5! Showtime 7:00pm. After tonight, Orwell returns this Sunday (11/16), which show will feature open captions (the only one of our four screenings of it that will), and then the fourth and final show is Thanksgiving Day.

TONIGHT is the first of four shows of Raoul Peck's new doc ORWELL: 2+2=5! Showtime 7pm. Not a SLIFF show--their passes don't work for this, Webster Film Series passes do, and our normal pricing ($7-8) applies. After tonight, other shows of Orwell are 11/13, 16, & 27. www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwm...

November calendar! Watch out for irregular, nonconsecutive runs this month: 11/8, 14-15: SLIFF 11/9, 13, 16, & 27: Orwell: 2+2=5 (from Raoul Peck, director of I am Not Your Negro and distributor Neon) (and yes, 11/27 is Thanksgiving) 11/22-23, 25, & 28: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

TONIGHT is our one-night-only show of the long-thought-lost genderfluid 1974 Japanese film BYE BYE LOVE, now newly restored and ready for (re-)discovery! Showtime 7:00pm. From director Isao Fujisawa, an assistant director on the Teshigahara classics Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another.

TONIGHT is a special Halloween show of Jim Hosking's 2016 horror/anticomedy whatsit THE GREASY STRANGLER, showing at 7:00pm! Please do not come in costume, especially if your costume involves slathering yourself with grease.

TONIGHT we're opening the ecstatically acclaimed film MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, PART I: LAST AIR IN MOSCOW! "The most essential investment of time you can make in a movie theatre this year" per the New York Times. See local legend Cliff Froehlich's review here: thetake-up.com/my-undesirab...

TONIGHT is our one-night-only show of Chan-wook Park's underseen 2009 effort, THIRST, wherein Parasite patriarch Song Kang-ho plays a Catholic priest on the wrong end of a medical experiment and comes out the other side a horny vampire, resulting in a crisis of faith. Showtime 7:00pm, no trailers.

TONIGHT, tomorrow, + Sunday we're showing Hal Hartley's first new feature in a decade, WHERE TO LAND, in its St. Louis premiere & exclusive run! Showtime 7:00pm each night. Here Hartley reteams with some he helped make stars--Bill Sage, Edie Falco, Robert John Burke--for a quick and delightful film.

TONIGHT our mini Hal Hartley retro continues with his 1997 Cannes best screenplay prizewinner HENRY FOOL, starring James Urbaniak, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Parker Posey! Showtime 7:00pm. Henry Fool is arguably Hartley's highest esteemed and most beloved film these days. Where to Land starts tomorrow!

TONIGHT our brief Hal Hartley retro continues with his sophomore feature, 1990's TRUST, at 7:00pm! Reteaming with The Unbelievable Truth star Adrienne Shelly, between those two films we see Hartley beat down a path later followed by Anderson, Baumbach, Stillman, etc. OOP on physical! Hard to stream!

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday at 7:00pm we're showing the new near-future surveillance dystopia coming-of-age charmer HAPPYEND from Japanese director Neo Sora, son of legendary musician Ryuichi Sakamoto! This has been a stealth critical favorite so far this season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWK...

TONIGHT at 7:00pm is THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, the first of three Hal Hartley classics we're running before we premiere his new one next week. Unbelievable is a key text in the 90s American independent cinema boom (despite being from 1989...) and unavailable to legally stream. Don't miss your chance!

October calendar! FIRST RUN: 10/4-5 + 7: Riefenstahl 10/10-12: Happyend 10/24-26: My Undesirable Friends HAL HARTLEY: 10/9: The Unbelievable Truth 10/14: Trust 10/16: Henry Fool FIRST RUN HAL HARTLEY: 10/17-19: Where to Land SCARY (?): 10/23: Thirst (Chan-wook Park) 10/31: The Greasy Strangler

TONIGHT and TOMORROW Hong Sangsoo's current release BY THE STREAM returns for its final two shows! With Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo. Showtime 7:30pm. Consensus from our Hong regulars after last week's preview is that this one is one of his best ever--everyone was aglow after the screening.

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday we're showing the Singaporean surveillance thriller STRANGER EYES at 7:30pm! Co-starring Tsai Ming-liang favorite Lee Kang-sheng as its possible villain; Lee was the slow-walking man in a monk's robes in last week's Abiding Nowhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuKx...

Thank you to our Half Pie sponsor, the Webster University Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social! Learn more: webster.edu/film-series

TONIGHT is our preview show of current Hong Sangsoo release BY THE STREAM! Showtime 7:30pm, starring the usual Hong gang, including Kim Minhee. After tonight, By the Stream will return September 27-28. See it early! Impatience is good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv-z...

TONIGHT and TOMORROW (two shows only!) we're showing Film Series favorite Tsai Ming-liang's newest "Walker" film, ABIDING NOWHERE, at 7:30pm! This is a "pay what you wish" event. That means: You want in free? Fine! You want to pay the usual? Great! You want to donate food to our food pantry? Hooray!

Heavy-hitter docs playing here soon: Oct 4-5 + 7: Riefenstahl (yes, about Leni) Oct 24-26: My Undesirable Friends, Part I: Last Air in Moscow (independent Gen Z Russian journalists as Russia invades Ukraine) Nov 22-23, 25, 28: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Palestine doc from Cannes 2025)

TONIGHT & TOMORROW (two shows only!) we're running Italian writer/director Giovanni Tortorici's debut feature, DICIANNOVE, at 7:30pm! This campus-set film is produced by Luca Guadagnino; come see it before Luca G's own campus-set After the Hunt opens in a few weeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4j...

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday at 7:30pm we're showing the first feature film from the Quay Bros in almost 20 years, SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS! A gothic stop-motion/live-action hybrid that is the specialty of the Quays, a real treat on the big screen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqK...

September calendar! 9/5-7: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Quay Bros) 9/11-12: Diciannove (Luca G. produces) 9/13-14: Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang; pay what you wish admission) 9/18 + 27-28: By the Stream (Hong Sangsoo) 9/19-21: Stranger Eyes (Singaporean surveillance thriller)

TONIGHT, tomorrow, Sunday we're showing a 4K restoration of Frank Ripploh's 1980 queer Berlin classic TAXI ZUM KLO! Featured in NYFF '81 and causing a sensation everywhere it went, TZK went on to influence everyone from Gus van Sant to Ira Sachs. 7:30pm, no trailers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukyr...

TONIGHT brings Michelangelo Frammartino's gorgeous debut, IL DONO, at 7:30pm! Frammartino has made just three features in his 20+ year career; this one, Le Quattro Volte, and Il Buco. He has a unique approach to slow cinema and is a singular voice. In Italian, left deliberately unsubtitled.

TONIGHT we're doing a one-off show of En el Séptimo Día (ON THE SEVENTH DAY), an overlooked American independent gem from 2017, only now making its St. Louis theatrical debut! Shot in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Park Slope, and Gowanus, we focus on an immigrant community from Puebla.

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday we have the St. Louis premiere and exclusive run of the new French film SOULEYMANE'S STORY, about a Guinean immigrant seeking asylum in Paris. Diane Carson of @awfjorg.bsky.social calls it 'perfect.' Showtime 7:30pm each night. awfj.org/blog/2025/08...

TONIGHT is our one-off show of Marva Nabili's THE SEALED SOIL, the earliest surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman! Newly restored in 4K to boot. Shot on 16mm, it had to be smuggled out of the country for developing and editing. Showtime 7:30 p.m.

TONIGHT, tomorrow, and Sunday we're showing King Hu's 1973 classic THE FATE OF LEE KHAN! 7:30 showtime each night. Starring the biggest female action stars of the time: Angela Mao (Enter the Dragon), Hsu Feng (A Touch of Zen), Shaw Brothers icon Li Li-hua, + more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEwZ...

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're showing Jem Cohen's newest, LITTLE, BIG, & FAR, at 7:30pm! Cohen was a guest of the Webster Film Series back in 2001 alongside the excellent doc Benjamin Smoke. LB&F is exec produced by Michael Stipe and Patti Smith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNT...

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're running the new doc DROP DEAD CITY at 7:30pm each night! A wonkish but entertaining look at NYC's 1975 financial crisis and how they got out of it, Variety praises how the film “charts how those pivotal months of 1975 unfolded like a thriller."

August! 1-3: Drop Dead City (NYC doc) 8-10: Jem Cohen's Little, Big, & Far 15-17: King Hu's The Fate of Lee Khan w/ Hsu Feng, Angela Mao 21: The Sealed Soil 22-24: Souleymane's Story 26: En el Séptimo Día / On the Seventh Day 28: Il Dono 29-31: Taxi zum Klo (new 4K restoration!)

Yeah, another masterpiece incoming. Screening this weekend @wufilmseries.bsky.social ! poplifestl.com/afternoons-o... #filmsky

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're showing French master Albert Serra's first foray into documentary filmmaking, the bullfighting doc AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, at 7:30pm each night! Regardless your feelings about bullfighting, pro or con, you're likely to find this film to be incredible.

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're showing the new Japanese film DESERT OF NAMIBIA at 7:30pm each night! Written/directed by 28-year-old Yôko Yamanaka + starring Yuumi Kawai, who appears in three films in the prestigious Japan Cuts fest in Manhattan this month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ew...

TONIGHT is the one-night-only show of David Lynch's debut as an actor, 1988's ZELLY & ME, where he plays the romantic interest of Isabella Rossellini's character. (Lynch and Rossellini were dating irl at the time.) Currently unstreamable and rarely screened. Showtime 7:30pm sharp; no trailers.

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're showing the new 4K restoration of Tsui Hark's 1984 slapstick gem SHANGHAI BLUES at 7:30pm each night! Shanghai Blues stars Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, and Sally Yeh--legends of Hong Kong cinema all--and Hark is the guy behind Peking Opera Blues, OUaTiC, tons more.

TONIGHT we're running Wes Craven's original 1996 SCREAM from laserdisc in Winifred Moore at 7:30pm! Usual admission prices apply. Laserdiscs of course being the first home video format to come in optical disc form, and Scream was one of the best-selling and most beloved of the format.

The original Ghostface Killer is on the loose! TONIGHT (4th of July), tomorrow, and Sunday we're playing the 1979 kung fu basher THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING at 7:00pm each night. Subbed Friday and Sunday, dubbed Saturday only. New digital restoration thanks to RZA. Note early start time.

TONIGHT (& tomorrow & Sunday) we're showing the brand new 4K restoration of Yorgos Lanthimos' 2009 breakthrough DOGTOOTH at 7:30pm each night! Surely one of the most transgressive films to have ever received an Oscar nomination (Best Foreign Film; it lost). www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJe4...