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...CoMo Famous 2022 Contestants
CoMo Famous is back! We have a slate of five prominent Columbians who will select films to screen as a fundraiser for Ragtag Film Society: Chase Thompson (Veterans United), Ian Chang, Lawrence Simonson (Local Motion), Mikel Fields (Cracked Up Mobile), and Ming Hsieh (Polished). Giving and Showpages available May 9.
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 […]
Read More...A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER 03/16/22
At the height of Oscar-frenzy, I ask once again, why horror? For those amongst our readership who need no cajoling to wade waist-deep into the darker realms of projected entertainment, I apologize. For the terror-averse, the cajoling begins now. March 17 at 10pm, we open X, a deliciously gory (and funny) slasher set in 1970s Texas where a dirt-cheap […]
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