A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 5/25/22
Greetings Cinema friends, For one week beginning this Friday, May 27th, Ragtag Cinema will be the only location within 2000 miles screening Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria. This special engagement of 22 screenings is one piece of a never-ending worldwide moving-image tour. Never to be released on home media—virtual or physical—Memoria will only exist in the theatrical space and […]
Read More...A WORD FROM CO-CUSTODIAN ARIN LIBERMAN - 5/18/2022
Friends of Ragtag, Hi, it’s Arin, RFS Co-Custodian. I’m happy you’re here, engaging with and supporting our beloved arthouse. I wanted to visit with you in this virtual space this week to share my thoughts about a poignant and particularly timely film opening at the Cinema on Friday. One of the things I love about […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PRESS & MARKETING MANAGER 5/11/2022
Hey there, Cinemaheads! At Ragtag Film Society, the rhythms of our year are very cyclical. Post-True/False we slow down a bit and set our sights on CoMo Famous, The Boone Dawdle, and even the next iteration of the Fest. But the cinema never stops, and in this little break from all-out T/F we still have creative nonfiction on […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 5/4/2022
Greetings Cinema friends, I rarely throw around the term perfect. As a fairly long-winded individual with a predisposition for tangents, I try (and often fail) to opt for direct language—brevity and accuracy can be a little elusive for me. So as I start this letter, I’ll try to be as clear about Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman as the […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 4/27/22
Greetings Cinema friends, For American audiences, the last two decades has seen the rise of breakthrough South Korea films—from a slow trickle to a fever pitch. Beginning for many with whispers of a shocking genre epic, Park Chan-wook’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Oldboy would find its way to daring cinemas (screened in Ragtag’s single screen iteration in […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 4/20/22
Greetings Cinema friends, Tomorrow evening we don our best wolf pelts and head full-gonzo into battle with Robert Eggers’ The Northman. As with The Witch and The Lighthouse before it, Eggers’ meticulous attention to historically-accurate details is only bested by the filmmaker’s respect for the beliefs, fears, and superstitions of the culture portrayed—in short, Robert Eggers makes folklore flesh. While […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 4/13/22
Experiences abound, Cinema friends, With white gloves donned, reels at the ready, and coconuts in suspiciously short supply, we welcome you to experience an exceedingly silly spectacle. Thursday through Sunday, we dine well here in Camelot as Monty Python and the Holy Grail screens in all its glory on 35mm. Moving roughly 997 years from Camelot, on Friday night we look […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 4/6/22
Greetings Cinema friends, Conceived nearly six years ago by two people named Daniel (Kwan and Scheinert) through a headache-inducing diagram of over a dozen color-coded storylines, scribbled notes, and dirty doodles: a maelstrom of ideas formed a film aptly named Everything Everywhere All At Once. What begins with Evelyn Wang, a harried laundromat owner facing an […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 3/30/22
Greetings Cinema friends, With the Oscars streaming telecast in the rearview and the discourse surrounding it simmering in near-exclusively online spaces, let’s go offline and focus on physical space—shall we? At the Cinema now and through next Thursday, we’re highlighting the real reason for all the hubbub: the films. Drive my Car, the Best International Feature […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 3/23/22
The Oscars are here, Cinema friends, With ballots at the Box Office and a staggering slate of Academy-nominated showtimes on the calendar, this is your friendly reminder to prepare for Sunday’s Big Movie Awards Show. The event has been a long-honored tradition in the hallowed halls of our humble cinematequé that has been understandably quieter these […]
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