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REEL ODDITIES: BUBBA HO-TEP: March 22 & 29
OFS Presents Jonathan Richman Featuring Tommy Larkins on the Drums: June 24
OFS KIDS CLUB PRESENTS: FINDING NEMO (2002) OFS KIDS CLUB: FINDING NEMO – FREE FOR KIDS 12 & UNDER March 19 & 26
True Love: A Benefit for Olympia Jazz Central - Monday, March 20
OFS Presents Comedy with: JOSH BLUE: Friday, June 16
COEXTINCTION: POST-FILM Q&A W/ VICTORIA OBERMEYER: March 31
REWIND & PLAY: March 30 – April 9
Thursday, June 22, 2023 OFS presents Brother Ali DJ Last Word 7:00pm doors / 8:00pm show $25 General Admission / $20 OFS member Tickets are available online beginning on 3/24 @ 10am PST Brother Ali is a highly respected Hip Hop artist, speaker and community leader from Minneapolis, MN. His two-decade resume includes eight critically […]
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April 2, 9 & 16, 2023 OFS KIDS CLUB PRESENTS: MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU (2022) FREE FOR KIDS 12 & UNDER Gru (Oscar-nominee Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. Luckily, […]
March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2023 REEL ODDITIES: PERFECT BLUE (1997) Perfect Blue, the groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary director Satoshi Kon, arrives at the Capitol Theater! Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see […]
April 13, 16 & 20, 2023 DRYLONGSO (1998): 4K RESTORATION A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming extinct,” as she sees it—brash […]
April 11, 2023 LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING $12 GA & $9 OFS Doors 6:30pm / Film 7:00pm Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a […]
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Saturday, April 15, 2023 An Olympia Film Society Fundraiser Chimes at Midnight (1966): 6K Restoration Post-Film Discussion w/ Chimes at Midnight’s Producer of Restoration, Michael Dawson Doors 6:00PM / Film 7:00PM $12 GA & $9 OFS After decades of inferior, faded, off-synch 35mm copies, a pristine 6K digital master now exists to fully experience Welles’ […]
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 ON THE BACKSTAGE: IQU, SELECT LEVEL + GUESTS $12 GA / $10 OFS 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show IQU (formerly icu, more on that in a second) began in DJ KO’s (aka Kento Oiwa) Olympia, WA basement in 1996. While in Olympia, he found a kinship with Michiko Swiggs and a […]
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OFS Presents Jonathan Richman Featuring Tommy Larkins on the Drums: June 24
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 (DAY 1): March 24
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 (DAY 2): March 25
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 (DAY 3): March 26
LOUIS PEARL: THE AMAZING BUBBLE MAN W/ JET BLACK PEARL: May 13
ON THE BACKSTAGE: IQU: April 1
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: LIVE!: April 14
THE ETHIOPIAN EDUCATION FUND PRESENTS: LAMB: April 16
DOSED: THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME: May 6
COEXTINCTION: POST-FILM Q&A W/ VICTORIA OBERMEYER: March 31
ON THE BACKSTAGE: CHRISTIAN MISTRESS, THRONES, BLUES FAERIES: April 8
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA W/ LIVE SCORE BY MONTOPOLIS: May 4
