Webster Film Series
@wufilmseries.bsky.social
The Webster University Film Series, St. Louis' cinematic alternative since 1979. www.webster.edu/film-series
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1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
[Ad]January calendar!
1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
December 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
[Ad]January calendar!
1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
1/2-4, 9-11: Resurrection (matinee & evening 1/11)
1/8 + 17: Nosferatu the Vampyre
1/15 + 25: Possession (w/ Victor Putinier on 1/15)
1/16: The Story of Adele H 35mm w/ Cliff Froehlich
1/22: One Deadly Summer
1/27: Quartet
1/29: Ishtar
1/30: Camille Claudel
1/31: Queen Margot
TONIGHT, TOMORROW, and SUNDAY we're showing Chile's submission to the Academy for Best International Feature, THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO, at 7pm each night! Mysterious Gaze won the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes earlier this year.
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - Trailer
YouTube video by Altered Innocence
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December 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
TONIGHT, TOMORROW, and SUNDAY we're showing Chile's submission to the Academy for Best International Feature, THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO, at 7pm each night! Mysterious Gaze won the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes earlier this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UscR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UscR...
TONIGHT is the sneak preview of one of 2025's most anticipated titles (THE most anticipated for the Webster Film Series team), Bi Gan's RESURRECTION, starring Jackson Yee & Shu Qi! Showtime 7:00pm tonight, returns for seven more shows in 2026. Winner of the Special Jury's Award at Cannes this year.
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TONIGHT is the sneak preview of one of 2025's most anticipated titles (THE most anticipated for the Webster Film Series team), Bi Gan's RESURRECTION, starring Jackson Yee & Shu Qi! Showtime 7:00pm tonight, returns for seven more shows in 2026. Winner of the Special Jury's Award at Cannes this year.
TONIGHT is our one-off show of Webster Film Series repertory favorite MILLENNIUM MAMBO, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and starring Shu Qi! Shu's back on our screen day after tomorrow for our preview show of Resurrection. MM runs at 7:00pm tonight.
December 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
TONIGHT is our one-off show of Webster Film Series repertory favorite MILLENNIUM MAMBO, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and starring Shu Qi! Shu's back on our screen day after tomorrow for our preview show of Resurrection. MM runs at 7:00pm tonight.
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!
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
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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
Adjanuary Trailer
The Webster Film Series Presents Adjanuary: The Films of Isabelle Adjani Jan 8 – 31, 2026 (Music: November by Kai Engel) For more info go to Homepage: webster.edu/film-series Instagram:…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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
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!
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
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
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
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!
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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!
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ec...
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk – Official U.S. Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
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November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ec...
Reposted by Webster Film Series
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
Review: “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”
Sepideh Farsi couldn’t enter Gaza. From Cairo, where she traveled in the hopes of crossing the Egyptian/Palestine border to document the ongoing war in Gaza, an Israeli-imposed blockade obstructed …
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November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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!)
(Returning to the Webster Film Series December 9 and 11!)
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Good thing we've held onto this poster all this time...
(Returning to the Webster Film Series December 9 and 11!)
(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.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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.
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwm...
ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3
YouTube video by NEON
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November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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...
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
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
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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
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.
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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...
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow - The Take-Up
A group portrait of seven independent Russian journalists, My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow – which screens at Webster University from Oct. 24-26 – saddens, inspires, and enrages in...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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!
Showtime 7:00pm. Henry Fool is arguably Hartley's highest esteemed and most beloved film these days. Where to Land starts tomorrow!
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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!
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!
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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!