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CENTER STAGE (1991) Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! International superstar Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love) embodies tragic screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the “Greta Garbo of China,” in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan (Rouge). Praised for her […]
Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Post-film Q&A w/ directors Shane Anderson and Jesse Andrew Clark The future of the Washington state’s most diverse river hangs by a thread. Faced with worsening floods and a prized salmon population on the brink of extinction, a changing climate can […]
Saturday, July 17, 2021 Olympia Film Society presents LoveOly SummerFest THE HINGES, HOLY THIEVES Capitol Theater outdoor stage 4pm -6pm FREE to attend! Listen and follow the bands at The Hinges Holy Thieves The Olympia Downtown Alliance is pleased to announce that they are launching a downtown street festival in historic Downtown Olympia that includes live […]
THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS – New 4K Restoration Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the […]
PUNK THE CAPITAL Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! When punk rock erupted in Washington DC, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, friendships, and clear minds. This film is the first to explore the incredible challenges that this subculture faced when it took root in […]
2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Virtual Cinema pricing: Animated Shorts – $12.00 Live Action Shorts – $12.00 Documentary Shorts – $12.00 Bundle of all three programs – $30.00 ANIMATED SHORTS (Running Time: 99 minutes) Burrow – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat (USA, 6 min.) […]
ERIC ROHMER’S TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS – 2K RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society $12.00 per ticket or $40 for all four films Tales of the Four Seasons was the final film series by Eric Rohmer, previously responsible for two of cinema’s most famous cycles: Six Moral Tales, and […]
THE FATHER Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony’s grip on reality is unravelling. […]
THE INHERITANCE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia […]
YWCA of Olympia and OFS present SINCE I BEEN DOWN Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets benefit YWCA of Olympia While the film can be seen anytime, there will be a special Zoom discussion moderated by YWCA’s Racial Justice Events & Program Manager Marisa Caughlan on 4/23 at 6pm […]
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
PATTON OSWALT: November 14, 15 & 16
SAM MILLER’S CHRISTMAS SHOW - Saturday, December 20
Saturday, December 13
FEMALE TROUBLE: A BENEFIT FOR OLYMPIA BOOKS TO PRISONERS: 12/24
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
