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December 3, 10 & 17, 2025 Reel Oddities: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air […]
December 12, 14 & 19, 2025 Die My Love Nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force […]
December 11, 14 & 18, 2025 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing […]
We’re returning in 2026! Named one of the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine, the Capitol Theater has hosted the Olympia Film Festival since 1984. The gathering is a five-day, around-the-clock extravaganza of films, filmmakers, and film-related guests, special performances, discussion panels, and educational workshops. It attracts between 5,000 and […]
Thursday, December 4, 2025 Hundreds of Beavers: Northwoods Christmas 6:30pm doors & 7pm film $16.25 GA & $13.25 OFS (includes service fees) All new introduction! Hundreds of Beavers, one of the most entertaining independent films of the past decade, is coming to the Capitol Theater on December 4. Called “gonzo cinema distilled from Buster Keaton […]
December 6, 11 & 12, 2025 Hausu on 35mm How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six […]
November 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025 Reel Oddities: Céline and Julie Go Boating Whiling away a summer in Paris, director Jacques Rivette, working in close collaboration with his stars and coconspirators Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, set out to rewrite the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play—moviemaking as an anything-goes romp […]
November 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2025 Animation Tuesdays: Perfect Blue – 4K Restoration A brand new restoration! Perfect Blue marks the directorial debut of Satoshi Kon, who fascinated audiences around the world with Paprika, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. Hailed as the first animated film to feature an authentic psychological suspense story, this film […]
November 2, 6 & 20, 2025 It Was Just an Accident Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal’s identity. As the bickering group […]
The one and only Patton Oswalt will be guest programming two films at the Capitol Theater on November 15 & 16 🍿 The actor, comedian, and writer has chosen to screen McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Pig (2021) – two Pacific Northwest staples After each film concludes, Patton will be discussing the titles […]
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13 - FREE ADMISSION
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
