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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival THE BLACK AND THE GREEN on 16mm Introduction by Violet Lucca 2:00pm doors / 2:30pm film Director St. Clair Bourne’s celebrated film documents a conversation between activists. The meeting, held in Ireland, explores similarities between the Black American and Irish liberation strugle. Dir. St. Clair Bourne […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING 3:30pm doors / 4:00pm film Love and Happiness reverberating behind a blinking bulb in a nameless yard. Sweat hitting the concrete like pop rocks. The moon sizzling like wet pancake batter. Pollen and rustling leaves. Comprised of intimate and unencumbered moments of […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival 20TH ANNIVERSARY: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO Post-film Q&A w/ THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO writer and director Whit Stillman Moderated by Diana Arens, MPA 7:00pm doors / 8:00pm film Alice is such a Scorpio. The Last Days of Disco bridges the carbonated euphoria of music […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival DAMSELS IN DISTRESS Post-film Q&A w/ DAMSELS IN DISTRESS writer and director Whit Stillman Moderated by Ned Hayes 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm film Led by Whit Stillman’s deliciously sardonic and lemon-wrung dialogue, Damsels in Distress revolves around a troupe of mannered students whose expectations are to […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival TRANS YOUTH 3:30pm doors / 4:00pm film This feature length documentary trails a handful of young trans Austinites as they forge and fortify their adult identities. While trans identity is more visible than ever — the subject of television shows, talked about in the media, and tied […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival FAKE TATTOOS 6:00pm doors / 6:30pm film A film about music, the ephemera of meet-cutes, and the trauma of living. Director Pascal Plante’s Fake Tattoos revolves around Theo (Anthony Therrien) and Mag (Rose-Marie Perreault), two teenagers who ascend into the void of friendship and flirtation in […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival I WANT MORE, I WANT LESS Post-film Q&A w/ director Bryce Richardson, producer Violet Lucca & composer Christopher Day 6:00pm doors / 6:30pm film An accountant in Queens rents out the front of her store to a young man who repairs cell phones…and sometimes pickpockets them […]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival Commencement Bank presents: HAL 3:30pm doors / 4:00pm film Although Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s — Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Coming Home, Being There — he is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival Archibald Sisters presents: QUEERAMA 10:30pm doors / 11:00pm film Director Daisy Asquith’s Queerama is a powerful assembly of shifting images and ethereal compositions. Archival footage ebbs and courses, while music from Hercules & Love Affair, John Grant, and Goldfrapp provide a buoyant chorus of fluttering notes […]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival The Pet Works presents OLD DOG 3:30pm doors / 4:00pm film New Zealand farmer Paul Sorenson has a unique connection with his colleagues — a team of sheep dogs. For 40 years, he’s worked to develop smarter and more intuitive training methods for fellow farmers, while grappling […]
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
DEEP RED W/ LIVE MUSIC BY THE BAVARIANS (members of Federale, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, The Delines, and The Silver Triplets): May 25
STORYOLY GRAND SLAM: September 14
CHASTITY BELT + PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE: Friday, April 19
