Silents, Please! STL celebrates Women’s History Month with with a night devoted to WOMEN PIONEERS OF EARLY CINEMA. The program will feature a selection of shorts by groundbreaking French director Alice Guy-Blaché, whose work influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Sergei Eisenstein. Then, we’ll present Lois Weber’s masterful 1916 tearjerker SHOES, of which critic Louella Parsons wrote that it “loosens the heartstrings, stirs the pulse and makes one choke with emotion.” Both Shoes and Guy-Blaché’s short Matrimony’s Speed Limit have been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.

TICKETS $5

Arkadin Cinema and Bar