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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 4h

TONIGHT we have MacArthur fellow, Guggenheim fellow, Harvard professor, etc etc SKY HOPINKA in person to introduce and do a post-show Q&A for his new film, POWWOW PEOPLE, here receiving its St. Louis premiere! Showtime 7:30pm, pay what you wish admission, which is exactly what it sounds like.

Still from Powwow People: A man in a traditional Native American headdress powwowing

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TODAY is the Department of English's free public poetry reading with SKY HOPINKA, the first of three Sky events being held at Webster today and tomorrow! (The Film Series one is tomorrow night.) 1:30pm in the Sunnen Lounge in the University Center. Details here: events.webster.edu/event/david-...

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David Clewell Visiting Writers Series Presents Sky Hopinka

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

October! Three Sky Hopinka events, all pay-what-you-wish admission: 2: Powwow People w/ Sky Hopinka in person! 3: małni - towards the ocean, towards the shore 4: Sky Hopinka shorts 10: Jonas Mekas' Birth of a Nation + The Reagans Speak Out on Drugs in 16mm! 11 + 15: My Brother's Wedding (4K resto)

Nicely laid out print calendar graphic of our October calendar, replete with film stills, poster images, and more, though the included information is effectively the same as what is in these posts

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello Bluesky friends! Breaking news: Putting the finishing touches on our October calendar, just confirmed NAZA at the last minute, matinee 10/17 and evening shows 10/19 and 10/21. Mark your calendars! From the team behind No Other Land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...

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NAZA - official trailer

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TONIGHT is the sixth and final show of our Andrzej Wajda centennial program, and it's the only one in French: 1982's DANTON, about the French Revolution, and starring Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak. Showtime 7:00pm, introduced by Webster film production professor Natalia Kaniasty.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TONIGHT is the penultimate film in our Andrzej Wajda centennial program, 1981's Palme d'Or-winning MAN OF IRON! Showtime 7:00pm. A sequel of sorts to last night's Man of Marble, Man of Iron was made in the wake of Poland's Solidarity movement. Introed by Webster professor Natalia Kaniasty.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TONIGHT is the fourth of six Andrzej Wajda films we're running for his centennial this year, 1976's MAN OF MARBLE, which is currently unstreamable in the U.S.! Showtime 7:00 p.m., briefly introduced by Webster professor Natalia Kaniasty.

A woman with a camera points it at a statue

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TONIGHT our Andrzej Wajda retrospective continues with his Oscar-nominated 1974 effort, THE PROMISED LAND, showing at 7:00pm! The Promised Land, like most of the Wajda films we're showing this weekend, are difficult/impossible to see legally and in good quality in America. 4K DCP over here, though!

A man is in a room with sunlight streaking in through the windows in an especially painterly way

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TONIGHT is the second screening of the six total in our Andrzej Wajda centennial program. It's the big one: 1958's ASHES & DIAMONDS, perhaps his best-known film, and one of Martin Scorsese's favorite films and biggest influences. Showtime 7:00pm, introduced by film production prof Natalia Kaniasty.

A crucifix hangs upside down in the foreground as a man makes his way through what appears to be a bombed out church in the background

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TONIGHT, TOMORROW, & SUNDAY we're showing Rafael Manuel's FILIPIÑANA at 7:30pm each night! Executive produced by Jia Zhangke, Filipiñana is one of the very best films of 2026, and with one of the best trailers besides, which you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-7...

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Filipiñana – Official Trailer

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TONIGHT is the first screening of our six-film Andrzej Wajda Centennial program, his 1956 international breakthrough KANAŁ! Showtime 7:00pm, introduced by Webster film production professor Natalia Kaniasty. General admission $10, discounts for students, seniors, alums.

I woman and a man in a tunnel or something, looking upward, in black and white, in a still from Kanal

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Arachnophiliac @arachnophiliac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At The Take-Up, guest contributor and Webster University professor Natalia Kaniasty ruminates on the role of Andrzej Wajda's cinema in framing Polish identity and history. Just in time for @wufilmseries.bsky.social Sep 17 - 27 retrospective on the director's work. thetake-up.com/framing-fami...

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Framing Family and National Narratives Through Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema - The Take-Up

If you grew up in the Midwest, you may know the name Pulaski from streets, schools, or Pulaski Day celebrations. You probably know Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła in Poland, and Marie Curie, bor...

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TONIGHT our Cinema of Protest, Power, & Social Change series continues with Haskell Wexler's 1969 directorial debut MEDIUM COOL! Famous climax shot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Showtime 7:00 p.m., no trailers. We're showing it with open captions.

A man in close-up looks at something out of frame while surrounded by a lot of people in an arena-type environment

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

TONIGHT is our second and final show of the 1966 classic THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, showing at 7:30pm! Our first show, nearly two weeks ago, received a lot of praise for how good this 4K DCP looks. And that Ennio Morricone score!

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TONIGHT & TOMORROW (two shows only!) we're running a new 35mm print of Tsai Ming-liang's 1998 film THE HOLE, only now getting its first U.S. theatrical release! J. Hoberman suggests the film is "a blissful dose of morphine administered as the world goes down the drain." Showtime 7:30pm, no trailers.

Theatrical one-sheet for The Hole, with a cigarette-smoking Lee Kang-sheng looking through a hole at a reclining Yang Kuei-mei, who appears to be on the phone or something

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TONIGHT is our one-night-only show of WINTER HYMNS from writer/director (/Webster alum) Nathan Deming, who will be on hand for a post-film Q&A! Winter Hymns is touring the country right now, and when Deming left Webster he went to study under Mike Leigh in London. Showtime 6:30pm.

Poster for Winter Hymns, with a concerned-looking palliative care doctor

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TONIGHT, TOMORROW, and SUNDAY we're showing the Brydie O'Connor-directed, Kristen Stewart-produced documentary about pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer, BARBARA FOREVER, at 7:30pm each night! We just showed Hammer's Lover Other and Sanctus here back in June. What a legend!

Barbara Hammer wielding a camera like a gun

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

TONIGHT is our one-night-only back to school show of HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, which we first ran in March 2024 and has since emerged as one of the biggest audience favorites of the past decade! If you haven't seen this on a big screen with a crowd, you haven't seen it at all. 7:30pm, $10/$9.

Four human beings in beaver mascot costumes are acting anarchically towards a human man dressed in the fur and decapitated head of a raccoon mascot thing

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TONIGHT is the first of two screenings of the classic political film THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, showing at 7:00pm! With a terrific Ennio Morricone score, if you didn't already know it, Battle of Algiers is the film Bob relaxes to in One Battle After Another. Second screening not until 9/13.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

September! 1+13: The Battle of Algiers 3: Hundreds of Beavers 4-6: Barbara Forever 10: Winter Hymns (w/ director!) 11-12: The Hole (35mm print!) 15: Medium Cool 18-20: Filipiñiana Wajda Centennial: 17: Kanał 22: Ashes & Diamonds 24: The Promised Land 25: Man of Marble 26: Man of Iron 27: Danton

Image of the laid out September calendar, with tiny little pictures of each movie on the dates that they're screening

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

TONIGHT we conclude our Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film programs with TRICKSTAR NATURE, a program of nature-themed shorts, at 7:30pm! No trailers, presented in partnership with St. Louis Filmworks. $10 general admission, $9 for students from other schools, seniors, alums.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

TODAY we're doing two shows of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film kids program: a 2pm matinee (unusual for us) + a 7:30pm show! It's a program of shorts and is itself quite short, at just an hour. All family-friendly, no dialogue. $10 general admission, $9 for students, seniors.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

TONIGHT is the first of our shows of the best of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)! Tonight's program being the literal 'best of' the entire festival. Showtime 7:30, not really appropriate for children (come tomorrow instead), $10/$9 admission. W/ St. Louis Filmworks.

Screenshot of the program guide of the ITFS best of program

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

TONIGHT is Sundance/True False hit AMERICAN DOCTOR at 7:30pm! A verité doc largely set at a Gazan hospital, AD follows three physician friends, one Palestinian, one Jewish, & one Zoroastrian. From Poh Si Teng, producer of St. Louis Superman. $10 general, $9 for seniors, non-Webster students, alums.

Three doctors wearing doctor gear doing doctor stuff on an unseen patient

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TONIGHT, TOMORROW, and SUNDAY we're showing Cannes 2025 Best Actress and Queer Palm winner THE LITTLE SISTER at 7:30pm each night! From director Hafsia Herzi, better known as an actress (The Secret of the Grain), The Little Sister is about a 17-year-old Muslim lesbian in modern France.

Fatima, played by Nadia Melliti, the lead actress of The Little Sister, standing against a wall with an interesting pattern

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY we're doing 35th ann., 4K resto shows of Stanley Kwan's CENTER STAGE, starring Maggie Cheung in Berlin Best Actress-winning performance as Chinese silent cinema star Ruan Lingyu! Showtime 7:30pm. "A masterpiece... The greatest Hong Kong film I've seen" per Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Maggie Cheung looking pensive playing Ruan Lingyu in a still from Center Stage

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

TONIGHT, TOMORROW and SUNDAY at 7:30pm we're showing Brittany Shyne's 2025 True/False hit SEEDS! Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance last year, shortlisted for the best documentary feature Oscar, Seeds is about Black generational farmers in the American South.

A man holds a crying baby with an expanse of farmland visible behind them

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TONIGHT is your only chance in St. Louis to see Aleksandre Koberidze's DRY LEAF, surely our most requested film so far of 2026! Showtime 7:00pm sharp, no trailers. About a father looking for his daughter across abandoned soccer pitches in the Georgian countryside. Shot on an old phone camera.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

TONIGHT (Thursday), TOMORROW, and SATURDAY we're showing the new Argentine film THE CURRENTS at 7:30pm! About a fashion designer who, while in Switzerland to accept an award, becomes untethered from the world and her life. (Relatable!) A @nytimes.com Critic's Pick.

A woman standing at the sink in a bathroom, wearing an aquamarine coat and surrounded by aquamarine tiling

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Katie Carter @katieatthemovies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A woman on the verge of…something: I reviewed Milagros Mumenthaler’s beguilingly oblique psychological drama THE CURRENTS, which screens locally at @wufilmseries.bsky.social this Thurs thru Sat: bit.ly/3TpFvBq

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Review: “The Currents”

At first glance, Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) appears to have it all. A comfortable life with her husband Pedro (Esteban Bigliardi) and daughter Sofia (Emma Fayo Duarte) in Argentina. A success…

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

August! 7/30-8/1: The Currents 8/2: Dry Leaf (one show only!) 8/7-9: Seeds (T/F '25 hit) 8/14-16: Center Stage (Maggie Cheung!) 8/21-23: The Little Sister (Cannes '25 Best Actress winner) 8/27: American Doctor sneak preview (T/F '26 hit) 8/28-30: ITFS programs (Stuttgart animation festival)

Grid-style calendar of our August schedule, replete with an assortment of stills from the films we are showing: pixilated flowers, a still from Seeds, Maggie Cheung a couple of times

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday we're showing Maciej Drygas' doc TRAINS at 7:30pm! Made up entirely of archival footage, Drygas tells the story of the first half of 20th century Europe through footage of trains. Given a rare A+ grade by @gdogmcp.bsky.social at PopLifeSTL. poplifestl.com/trains-docum...

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'Trains' Documentary Is A Dark Yet Captivating Ride Through History

By Alex McPherson Brilliantly charting the relationship between locomotive innovation and humanity’s darkest instincts, Polish director Maciej J. Drygas’s “Trains” weaves together hypnotically-edit...

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

TONIGHT is our one-night-only encore show of our May 2026 sleeper hit TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS! Showtime 7:30pm. When last we ran it the audience grew larger and larger each night and 100% of the people we talked to after loved it. The newest film from young Japanese master Sho Miyake.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

TONIGHT we continue our weekend of films by Japanese master Sho Miyake with his 2024 effort ALL THE LONG NIGHTS, screening at 7:30pm! All the Long Nights is a downright pleasant story of the friendship between officemates, one who suffers panic attacks and the other fighting nasty bouts of PMS.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TONIGHT is the first of three films by young Japanese master Sho Miyake this weekend, the local theatrical premiere of his 2022 boxing drama SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY, which runs at 7:30pm! Sho is the director of our May hit Two Seasons, Two Strangers, which we're giving an encore show to this Sunday.

A girl is practicing boxing in a ring with an older coach

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday we're showing what is perhaps Takashi Miike's most extreme film, 2001's VISITOR Q, in a new transfer from its original master tape! Miike (Audition) really crossed lines with this one. Is it a horror film? A pitch-black comedy? Who can say? Showtime 7:30pm each night.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, & Sunday we're showing the acclaimed new Kyle Gallner / Samara Weaving thriller CAROLINA CAROLINE at 7pm each night! Note start time + be warned it will run with no trailers, so CC will be on the screen promptly at 7. CC is all sunshiny red white & blue-coded; perfect for the 4th.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

July calendar! 3-5: Carolina Caroline (with Kyle Gallner + Samara Weaving) 10-12: Visitor Q (Takashi Miike, new restoration) [17-19: Three by Sho Miyake] 17: Small, Slow but Steady 18: All the Long Nights 19: Two Seasons, Two Strangers encore showing 24-26: Trains Bonus: August 2: Dry Leaf

July calendar with little stills of movies in the boxes of dates when they will be playing

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, and Sunday we're running the new Japanese film RENOIR, a Cannes 2025 competition entry from writer/director Chie Hayakawa! Hayakawa was also behind our August 2023 hit Plan 75. Renoir is a coming-of-age story a la Shinji Somai's Moving. Showtime 7:30pm each night.

A young girl and her mother press their hands together on a train, with a window between the two of them

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

TONIGHT we're playing the new Canadian documentary AGATHA'S ALMANAC, about the 90-year-old Agatha Bock, who lives alone on her ancestral farm without running water or a phone, farming the traditional way. Agatha's a charmer, as captured in 16mm from the film's all-female crew. Showtime 7:30pm.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

TONIGHT is our one-night-only, 25th anniversary show of butch/trans buddy classic BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, in a new 4K restoration and showing at 7:30pm tonight! By Hook or By Crook was a hit at Sundance and SXSW upon release but never got the distribution it deserves. We're happy to be able to play it!

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

TONIGHT we're doing a FREE ADMISSION show of two Barbara Hammer films: SANCTUS and LOVER OTHER! Co-presented with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Showtime 7:30pm. Lover Other is about Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the subjects of CAM's current exhibit "And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth."

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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

By Hook or By Crook (2001) is a trans and butch buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the lives of two grifters 4K restoration by Academy Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction w/ Frameline, Outfest, Steakhaus Prod., Sundance US screenings alteredinnocence.net/film/hook

Above: Two people smiling and sitting on the side of a building. Below: Three people holding water guns.

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, and Sunday we're showing German master Christian Petzold's newest, MIROIRS NO. 3, at 7:30pm each night! Miroirs re-teams Petzold with star Paula Beer; the two of them previously made Transit, Undine, and 2023 WFS hit Afire together. St. Louis premiere and exclusive run!

Paula Beer's character rests her chin on her palm as she gazes into the middle distance

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, an Sunday we're showing Argentine master Lucrecia Martel's first feature film in nine years and her first documentary feature ever, OUR LAND (NUESTRA TIERRA), at 7:30pm each night! Our Land is a true crime doc of a sort, about the 2009 murder of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar.

The backs of seven or eight people's heads in the foreground as they watch many more people and tent in the distance

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

TONIGHT and Thursday (but not Wednesday) we're showing Gerald Potterton's shaggy 1971 counterculture animation/live-action hybrid TIKI TIKI at 7:30pm! Potterton also worked on Yellow Submarine and later directed Heavy Metal; Tiki Tiki has long been all but impossible to see.

An animated monkey director in the Dennis Hopper mold explains something to a glasses- and rings-wearing blue monkey

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

June calendar! 2+4: Tiki Tiki, a 1971 obscurity from the director of Heavy Metal 5-7: Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), from Lucrecia Martel 12-14: Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold) 19: Free admission Barbara Hammer: Lover Other & Sanctus 20: By Hook or By Crook 21: Agatha's Almanac 26-28: Renoir

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

TONIGHT, tomorrow, and Sunday at 7:30pm each night we're showing Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi's new film SILENT FRIEND, which stars Hong Kong's Tony Leung (appearing in his first-ever European production), France's Léa Seydoux, and a centuries-old gingko tree. (The tree is the real star.)

Tony Leung thoughtfully admiring the leaves of a tree from close range

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Webster Film Series @wufilmseries.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

TONIGHT is our collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on a 25th anniversary screening of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, in advance of their 6/13 event, "Behind this Mask," which will feature John Cameron Mitchell live and in person! Free admission for all, showtime 7:30pm.

Hedwig on stage, all glam-rocked-up, opening a large cape that has "Yankee go home with me" painted on the inside

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