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March 1 – 7 GREEN BOOK Nominated for five Oscars at the 91st Academy Awards, Green Book is one of the most critically discussed films of 2018. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert […]
April 4/6, 4/7, 4/16 JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH Sponsored by RAINY DAY RECORDS Electric Church tells the story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s involvement as the headliner of the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, then hailed as the ‘Southern Woodstock’. Jimi Hendrix was the critical component he needed to elevate the three day festival to […]
March 1 – 7 BEST OF FEST: HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING Nominated for Best Documentary at the 91st Academy Awards, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins […]
March 15 – 21 COLD WAR Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the […]
March 10, 17, 23 WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN Sponsored by Browsers Bookshop Decades before Hogwarts, Ursula K. Le Guin invited young readers to wizard school in her classic Earthsea fantasy series, and dazzled the science fiction world with masterworks like The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Worlds of Ursula K. Le […]
February 20 – 28 VICE Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Adam McKay’s Vice is the epic story of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. Dir: Adam […]
February 20 – 28 OSCAR SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry, US, 7 minutes In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from history. ‘A Night at the Garden’ transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines […]
2nd Annual Northwest Horrorfest May 31, 2019 Submit here Guts. Ghosts. Ghouls. The 2nd Annual Northwest Horrorfest celebrates macabre filmmakers from across the greater Pacific Northwest area. Entries can range from documentaries to narrative feature and beyond. The Northwest Horrorfest is hosted around the Olympia, Washington downtown area, mainly inside the Capitol Theater, a 1924 […]
Sunday, February 24 OFS presents THE 91st Academy Awards OSCAR PARTY LIVE on the big screen! Sponsored by Dillinger’s Cocktails and Kitchen Hosted by local filmmaker Rachel Millena Saul 4:00pm red carpet / 5:00pm show $10 general / $7 members Mezzanine Lounge Open (21+ w/ ID) The Olympia Film Society is bringing some old-fashioned Hollywood glitz […]
Saturday, March 16 POLYRHYTHMICS with DIRTY REVIVAL 7pm doors / 8pm show $25 GA / $20 OFS Members Rich with bold brass and hypnotic percussion, Polyrhythmics’ latest album, Caldera, showcases the instrumental eight-piece’s impossibly tight grooves and virtuosic musicianship as they tear through a singular blend of funk, soul, psychedelic rock, R&B, progressive jazz, and […]