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June 20 – 26, 2025 Caught by the Tides The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a […]
May 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025 Reel Oddities: Trainspotting – 4K Restoration Playing with the Short Film: Miss Sunday Pork Roast Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish? Choose a classic and satisfy your lust for life as Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie return to the big screen. Among the most popular, […]
May 3 – 11, 2025 The Wedding Banquet From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations. Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her […]
Saturday, June 28, 2025 Capital City Pride Variety Show 7pm doors & 7:30pm program $21.25 GA & $18.25 OFS (price includes service fees) $26.25 at the door (price includes service fees) 18+ w/ ID Olympia Pride takes over the last weekend of June in celebration of Pride Month, and this year we’re going bigger than […]
Friday, May 30, 2025 New Wave Post-film Q&A w/ Elizabeth Ai Moderated by Olympia Mayor Pro Tem Yến Huỳnh 6:30pm doors/7:00pm show Orca Books will be selling copies of New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora in the lobby Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai embarks on a journey to capture the vibrant spirit of a musical phenomenon […]
June 1, 15, 22 & 29, 2025 OFS Kids Club Presents: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Free for Kids 12 and Under Four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with the epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next installment, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming […]
June 1 – 7, 2025 Secret Mall Apartment In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and kept it going for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret mall apartment became an incredibly meaningful act for all the participants, […]
May 15, 16, 22 & 29, 2025 Amélie: New 4K Restoration Guest Programmed by Leigh Patton, Olympia Film Society’s Volunteer of the Year One of the most celebrated films of the aughts, Amélie is a fanciful comedy about a young woman (Audrey Tautou) who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a […]
May 23 – 25, 2025 Jaws – New 4K Restoration The summer blockbuster that started it all! When a young woman is killed by a shark near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing […]
May 11 & 25, 2025 OFS Kids Club Presents: School of Rock Free for Kids 12 and Under Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his […]