What we’re about
People often ask me, "What IS a Classic Movie?". Well, one thing for sure is that it doesn't HAVE to be made before you were born AND it doesn't HAVE to be in B&W. It MAY be both but, on the contrary, it may have come out in 2023 at Christmastime, like Alexander Payne's The Holdovers. A Classic Movie is a GREAT *movie that stands the test of time but may not be truly appreciated in its own time, like **Frank Capra's *It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
MISSION STATEMENT: Let's get together and watch GREAT movies of ALL eras & genres on The Big Screen AND at small events at members’ homes!
Our goal is not JUST seeing the best movies of both the past AND today, but making time afterward to talk about them and perhaps even becoming Film Friends.
There will also occasionally be events related to other areas of the Arts and local culture.
And each year we have an Oscars Party!
Although based in Fenton, MO, we will host events throughout the Metropolitan area, on BOTH sides of the Mississippi AND Missouri Rivers, including both St. Charles County and Edwardsville, IL!
We are looking for an ACTIVE membership, which for us means you'll attend at least ONE event each year.
Please submit a recent "selfie" profile photo when you join so we can easily recognize you at our doorsteps and in public places. Profile photos are most effective when they include only one human being and when that human being is not wearing sunglasses =OR= a hat.
I hope you'll also consider supporting my wife, Shirley's, plant-based eating group: https://www.meetup.com/plant-based-stl/
Established Monday, 11/19/2018!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL (35MM) (1957) @ The Hi-Pointe!The Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis, MO
General Admission - $11
Student/Senior - $8
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If you're NOT a Student/Senior, you can save at least $3/movie by becoming a Cinema St. Louis member.
MORE INFO: https://cinemastlouis.org/membership
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Coming SOON!
https://hipointetheatre.org/coming-soon/September 2025
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eedlhfvuu-FVdmg56By61aJln8NqZFOk/view***
ADVANCE TICKETS:
This process does NOT get you a specific seat in the theater. If you believe an event like this might sell out though, have at it. It does allow you to make a convenient additional donation to Cinema St. Louis, if you're so inclined.
https://hipointetheatre.org/purchase/233549/
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PARKING:
The Hi-Pointe has its own parking in various places behind the theater, but in 45 years of going there, I have never used it.
After 6PM M-F, after 12PM Saturday, and ALL DAY SUNDAY, there’s plenty of FREE parking right next door HERE:
Lindell Bank
6900 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-645-7700***
After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.> Stark and mythic, drawing its power from the symbolic repertoire of medieval religious painting and an utterly modern spiritual quest, The Seventh Seal “contains some of the most extraordinary images ever committed to celluloid.” (Time Out)
NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has a 93% on the Tomatometer and a 93% on the Popcornmeter.
https://hipointetheatre.org/showtimes/the-seventh-seal-35mm-9-8-25-700-pm/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman_filmography - Robert Altman's McCABE & MRS. MILLER (35MM) (1971) @ The Hi-Pointe!The Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis, MO
General Admission - $11
Student/Senior - $8
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If you're NOT a Student/Senior, you can save at least $3/movie by becoming a Cinema St. Louis member.
MORE INFO: https://cinemastlouis.org/membership
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Coming SOON!
https://hipointetheatre.org/coming-soon/September 2025
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eedlhfvuu-FVdmg56By61aJln8NqZFOk/view***
ADVANCE TICKETS:
This process does NOT get you a specific seat in the theater. If you believe an event like this might sell out though, have at it. It does allow you to make a convenient additional donation to Cinema St. Louis, if you're so inclined.
https://hipointetheatre.org/purchase/239604/
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PARKING:
The Hi-Pointe has its own parking in various places behind the theater, but in 45 years of going there, I have never used it.
After 6PM M-F, after 12PM Saturday, and ALL DAY SUNDAY, there’s plenty of FREE parking right next door HERE:
Lindell Bank
6900 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-645-7700***
After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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The story of a gambling man and a hustling lady and the empire they fashioned from the wilderness. Robert Altman’s dazzlingly original MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, stands the mythology of the Old West on its ear. Critics like Pauline Kael praised the film’s “perfectly realized, poetic western” and Roger Ebert hailed it as “one of the saddest, most beautiful of all films,” noting Vilmos Zsigmond’s snow-veiled cinematography and Leonard Cohen’s haunting songs that turn the story into what Kael called “a mournful ballad of capitalism and lost romance.> “They say that great actors are never knowingly caught acting; Altman’s best movies are similarly effortless – experiences to be lived in, rather than simply watched.”
> Colin Kennedy, Empire
> “McCabe and Mrs. Miller is like no other Western ever made, and with it, Robert Altman earns his place as one of the best contemporary directors.”
> Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
> “STILL ROBERT ALTMAN’S BEST MOMENT, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader35mm print courtesy The Chicago Film Society.
NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 85% on the Tomatometer and an 86% on the Popcornmeter.
https://hipointetheatre.org/movies/mccabe-mrs-miller/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_%26_Mrs.Miller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman#Filmography
https://www.scripts.com/script/mccabe%2526_mrs._miller_13534 - Thursday Night Movies | THE GLASS WEB (1953_Film Noir/3D/New-To-Me)Jerry & Shirley's House, Fenton, MO
Welcome to Thursday Night Movies @ Jerry & Shirley's!
This movie fits THREE of my favorite categories:
- Worthwhile, new-to-me movies from ALL eras & genres
- Film Noir
- 3D
However, some of these movies will fall into PRE-Code and NEW Classic categories, too!
GENERALLY, this will be a regularly occurring Event on the LAST Thursday every other month.
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This Event will take place at our home near GRAVOIS BLUFFS in Fenton, MO. Our address and directions to it will be e-mailed to each attendee via MeetUp 24 hours ahead of the event. We'd prefer to have a home e-mail address and/or cell# (that we will keep confidential) for each person who attends one of our Home Events, so please consider providing one asap--THANKS!SCHEDULE
6:30PM: Show-up/Mingle
7PM: Movie begins - No one admitted after the movie starts
9PM: Discuss/Mingle
10PM: Jerry & Shirley go to bed!Jerry & Shirley will provide some air-popped popcorn, a variety of sodas [Coke, Sprite, Diet Pepsi, etc.], Hot Chocolate (with/without Irish Cream), and maybe more! If you're of a mind to and haven't done so already, please post your Movie Food/Beverage Contribution To Share in the Comments section below.
Contributions are NOT required.
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About the Movie
The Glass Web is a 1953 American 3-D film noir crime film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Marcia Henderson, and Kathleen Hughes. It is based on Max Simon Ehrlich's 1952 novel Spin the Glass Web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_WebAbout the Book
Spin The Glass Web is a mystery or suspense novel written by Max Ehrlich and first published in condensed form in Cosmopolitan in 1951. The full version was published by Harper & Brothers in 1952, and in paperback by Bantam Books in 1953.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_the_Glass_WebAbout the Author
Max Simon Ehrlich (October 10, 1909 – February 11, 1983[1]) was an American writer. He is best known for the novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and the movie of the same name.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ehrlich_(writer)TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtPM8rg92Y4
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_glass_web - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) @ The ARKADIN/$9Arkadin Cinema & Bar, St. Louis, MO
SCHEDULE
4PM - Orson Welles radio broadcast pre-show
5PM - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)Sept 2025 Schedule
https://i0.wp.com/arkadincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1000009852.webp?resize=768%2C593&ssl=1General Admission - $9
5228 Gravois Avenue | St. Louis, MO 63116
Microcinema in the Heart of Bevo!
https://arkadincinema.com/events/
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Since this 50-seat theater DOES sell out its most popular events, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you buy your tickets online asap.There is NO FEE for this service.
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PLENTY of Public Parking a block closer to the Bevo Mill @ Walsh/Duke & Gravois!
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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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OTHER WORLDS brings you to strange new realms through science fiction and fantasy. Featuring classics, hidden gems, and cult favorites, this series offers a mind-bending retreat from our mundane reality.
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Based on *The War of the Worlds *by H. G. Wells.“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the scenes of panic and destruction are staged with real flair!” – Monthly Film Bulletin
Thankfully, neither Ice Cube nor Amazon Prime comes within a mile of this timeless classic of science-fiction terror! A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist (and MST3k “mad” namesake) Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.Come out early for a pre-show starting at 4 pm where we’ll listen to the broadcast that traumatized a nation, Orson Welles’ legendary 1938 dramatic radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel.
The Arkadin does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. However, we encourage researching titles to determine if a screening may contain content that could be upsetting to you. Please feel free to contact us for guidance on specific films. Information about content can also be found on Common Sense Media, IMDB and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.
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NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 89% on the Tomatometer and a 71% on the Popcornmeter.https://arkadincinema.com/event/the-war-of-the-worlds-1953-w-orson-welles-radio-broadcast-pre-show-4-pm-other-worl/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)
https://www.scripts.com/script/the_war_of_the_worlds_23061
