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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
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, March 18, 2023 – SOLD OUT!! The Brotherhood presents: UNWOUND THRONES $30 GA / $25 OFS 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show Tickets on sale 1/19 at 10am PST “Unwound will never reunite so get over it.” —VICE UNWOUND 1991-2091 Born in 1991 in the Pacific Northwest as the Riot Grrrl and grunge musico-social movements […]
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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March 5, 12 & 19, 26 2023 OFS KIDS CLUB PRESENTS: FINDING NEMO (2003) FREE FOR KIDS 12 & UNDER Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by […]
Friday, April 7, 2023 Olympia Film Society & Evergreen Present: Electra (1964) Post-Film Discussion w/ Michael Cacoyannis Biographer John Howard Doors 6:00PM / Film 7:00PM $12 GA & $9 OFS This excellent adaptation by Michael Cacoyannis of the famous tragedy by Euripides garnered him his first international success and an award at the 1962 Cannes […]
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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
