In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film! 

Tim’s Vermeer follows a man’s obsessive attempt to replicate genius with mirrors and math. It’s fascinating and a little unsettling.

Feminism and French New Extremity have always been a powerfully potent combination in the hands of female directors like Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL) and Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY), and auteur Marina de Van joined their righteously twisted ranks with her gorgeous and grotesque 2002 horror breakthrough IN MY SKIN. Esther has been recovering from a recent leg injury when she develops an increasingly disturbing relationship with her body, one where the lines between painful pleasure and self-mutilation become irrevocably blurred. Body horror filtered through serrated expectations of body image, IN MY SKIN is a powerful vision of feminist rage that will sink its teeth into you and never let go.

Starring William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine, featuring the screen debut of John Travolta, and with none other than Anton LaVey himself as a technical advisor, The Devil's Rain is many things, but classy is not one of them. Come for the FREE screening and then hang out as the hosts of the Horror Pod Class discuss Satanism, Scientology, and lots and lots of people melting!

In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film! 

Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past is recruited by Devlin, a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to seduce and spy on a Nazi industrialist hiding in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock orchestrates a thriller of rare perfection.

Come out on July 16th at 7pm for another Soviet Animation Double Feature, presented by Drea (@dicarlotomboy)! This month we’re showing three Soviet adaptations of western stories. You won’t want to miss this free screening. We hope to see you there!

Addicted to sadness, a middle-aged lawyer is only happy when he is unhappy. When his wife re-emerges from a long-lasting coma, he concocts increasingly elaborate and unsettling ways to try to regain what he misses most: the pity of others. Co-written by frequent Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator, Efthimis Filippou and the second film in our July Greek Weird Wave trilogy.

It’s that time again, Kansas City! Magnetic Magic is stoked to return to our annual SOV Summer series and things are gonna get weird! This month we hit play on Jeff Leroy’s SOV horror send-up of Scientology, complete with cheap gore and claymation, as Analog Sunday presents: The Screaming!

Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.

The coolest movie ever made. Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch’s dreamy, undead glide through music, love, and eternal boredom.

FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous 'muzak' played through the fast food restaurant H Burger’s speaker system: the tracks are laced with subliminal messages designed to ensure complacency and consumerism.

A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right—from a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered. Presumed to be a commentary on the floundering Czech leadership, the film was “banned forever” in Czechoslovakia following the Russian invasion and prompted Forman’s move to America.

Marina is an awkward, emotionally stunted 23-year-old who lives with her terminally ill architect father, binges Attenborough documentaries, listens to the proto-punk songs of Suicide, and doesn’t understand sex. With the help of her friend Bella and a mysterious stranger, she embarks on an unusual journey of sexual discovery. The strangest coming-of-age story you’ll ever see! 

Brooklyn based puppet collective 'We Wiggle Dolls' is proud to present two rare screenings at Stray Cat Film Center to accompany their ongoing puppet cabaret tour!

Stray Cat Film Center is thrilled to welcome back We Wiggle Dolls for TWO SHOWS after their wildly fun, sold out performance last year!

"We Wiggle Dolls [ig: @wewiggledolls] began as a Brooklyn-based puppet slam in July 2023, with an emphasis on presenting as wide a variety of puppetry for adults as we possibly can in one night. Since then, We Wiggle Dolls has grown into an event organization, collaborating on immersive performances, accompanying live musicians and a nationally touring entity. This summer, we will be touring a selection of short form performances from several puppeteers, and showcasing as many local acts as we can!

Stray Cat Film Center is thrilled to welcome back We Wiggle Dolls for TWO SHOWS after their wildly fun, sold out performance last year!

"We Wiggle Dolls [ig: @wewiggledolls] began as a Brooklyn-based puppet slam in July 2023, with an emphasis on presenting as wide a variety of puppetry for adults as we possibly can in one night. Since then, We Wiggle Dolls has grown into an event organization, collaborating on immersive performances, accompanying live musicians and a nationally touring entity. This summer, we will be touring a selection of short form performances from several puppeteers, and showcasing as many local acts as we can!

Stray Cat is hosting KC Underground Film Festival as they sample what they're showing this year with last year's award winning Hiding Henry!

Plot: A convicted felon must convince his basketball star son to attend state college in exchange for a shorter prison sentence.

Featuring an, as usual, brilliant Denzel Washington performance; HE GOT GAME is an incredibly stylish sports drama from director Spike Lee! TIX ARE PAY WHAT YOU CAN!

Offering an immersive program of screenings and carefully moderated conversations, the Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema.

For 70 years, The Flaherty has been more than films. We’ve been conversations, breakthroughs, and a catalyst for cultural change.

Out of the galactic void emerges Lucifer, guiding and manipulating Adam and Eve in all their incarnations throughout history. One brutal age dissolves into another and another as they search for the purpose of human existence - if there is one at all. Unfolding over 15 acts, each with their own distinct visual style, Jankovics’ sprawling animated masterpiece weaves world art, cultures, symbols, and rituals into a seemingly-endless cosmic scroll of “human progress”.

One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers), leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out several decades ago.

Filmed by Alfred Hitchcock's production company as a pilot for a TV show that never went to series, Dark Intruder stars Leslie Nielsen and "your dad's alcoholic golf buddy as Agent for H.A.R.M." in a thrilling tale of occult detection based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. The FREE starts at 7pm and you'd better get there quick, because it's less than an hour long! Then, stick around afterward as Tyler and Orrin talk about TV pilots and Orrin's pet theory about an unlikely connection between this movie and a DC Comics character...

ANDREW’S VIDEO VOID is a monthly gathering of found footage freaks and AV geeks where art, archivism, and having a great time collide in the greater Kansas City Area. For the low, low price of $0 (or a suggested donation of a VHS tape or DVD) your eyes can feast on the strangest mix of video oddities!

This Month: Because everything is goinng great right now. Andrew's been thinking a lot about Canada. It's like America, but with better health care stable leadership, and poutine. So Andrew's compiled some fun bits of media from our friends to the North that honestly deserve better neighbors than they have right now. Rockin' Curling, Canadian BBQ sauce Children's TV and other assorted clips that seem familiar except for everything thatr's in them.

Plus: It's May the Fourth so that means one thing: We're celebrating STAR TREK with some Star Trek slop for everyone!

Also filmmaker Janice.Click will be here with some dvds and VHS tapes for everyone!

Plus: Dominatrixes sing, Jean-Luc Godard sells Nikes, and much more!

THE ENCAMPMENTS offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.

The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man is a bizarre, paranoid crime spree in Toronto. It’s weird, wild, and unsettling—a journey into a mind unraveling.

Free Screening Funded by Science on Screen:

A Screening of Last Things by Deborah Stratman with a presentation to follow by Astrobiologist/Spectroscopist Claire Marshall

The Film: The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci fi before it was a genre. The film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also central are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Robert Hazen's theory of Mineral Evolution, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, the Symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, multi-species scenarios of Donna Haraway, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film's science-fictional / science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.

Claire Marshall: Claire Marshall (B.App.Sc (Hons) Materials Chemistry, Ph.D), Associate Professor of Geospectroscopy, is a solid-state Raman spectroscopist, and astrobiologist. She has been involved in Raman spectroscopy of crystalline solids, and the application of Raman spectroscopy in astrobiology and planetary science research since 2002. Her interests are in Raman spectroscopy, astrobiology, and exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy as a life detection technique, and design, fabrication, and development of spectroscopic instrumentation for life detection. She has been awarded and managed over $4 million in grants throughout her career.

This screening is in partnership with 100,000,000 and their exhibition The Rock Show.

Satsuki drifts through love and rebellion in a rigid world. Desert of Namibia is sharp, restless, and defiantly hard to pin down.

In late 1980s Los Angeles, Jacki (Gina Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy, are trying to make it big. Along with bandmates played by Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Lori Petty (Tank Girl, A League of Their Own), and Shelly Cole (Gilmore Girls), she has spent years struggling playing gigs up and down the Sunset Strip. After several failed attempts to get signed and on the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band’s one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom.

Magnetic Magic are proud to welcome David Dawson back to Kansas City, as he serves up two new offerings of demented Midwest found footage! Get ready for a night of lolcows and juggalos as Analog Sunday presents: Leech & Fam-illi!