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JUNE 26, 27, and another date TBA RAFIKI Sponsored by Archibald Sisters Bursting with the colorful street style & music of Nairobi’s vibrant youth culture, RAFIKI is a tender love story between two young women in a country that still criminalizes the LGBTQ community. Kena and Ziki have long been told that “good Kenyan girls […]
JUNE 14 – 20 CARMINE STREET GUITARS Featuring a cast of prominent musicians and artists, the film captures five days in the life of one shop in the heart of Greenwich Village that remains resilient to the encroaching gentrification. Dir: Ron Mann / 2019 / US / 80 min “Carmine Street Guitars is an affectionate, […]
JUNE 23, 29, 30 IRMA VEP on 35mm $9 GA / $6 OFS Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic 1915 crime serial Les vampires. […]
JUNE 29 – JULY 4 THE SOUVENIR A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an […]
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2019 8:30PM doors / 9:00PM show $9 GA / $6 OFS Universally acclaimed as one of the best concert films ever made, Stop Making Sense documents the groundbreaking Talking Heads at their peak and was directed by Jonathan Demme. In honor of its thirty-fifth anniversary, Stop Making Sense was digitally re-mixed and […]
SATURDAY, JULY 27 2019 UNAPOLOGETIC: A DRAG SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA & FUNDRAISER FOR MPOWERMENT WASHINGTON presented by The Vanity Sisters 7:00pm doors/ 8:00pm show $15 GA & OFS Proving to the world that drag performance is forever evolving, female impersonators Gigi and Tasha have taken the Pacific Northwest by storm. Since 2010, the influential duo respectively […]
JUNE 2 – 6 THE SERENGETI RULES Exploring some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, five pioneering scientists make surprising discoveries that flip our understanding of nature on its head and offer new hope for restoring our world. Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists headed out into the […]
SATURDAY, JULY 20 2019 HEAT WAVE presented by Olympia’s Own TUSH! 7:00pm doors/ 8:00pm show $30 VIP (first four rows!) / $ 20 GA *this event is 18+ with ID Where there’s SMOKE there’s FLAMES so brace yourselves for a HEAT WAVE as TUSH! Burlesque makes your summer sizzle! July 20th during Lake Fair weekend […]
JUNE 14 – 27 THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chester’s unlock […]
JUNE 7 – 13 ASAKO I & II One day Asako’s first love suddenly disappears. Two years later, she meets his perfect double. An official selection of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Asako I & II is the newest film from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, the acclaimed director of Happy Hour. Dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi / 2018 / […]
