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September 21 – 27 LOVE, GILDA LOVE, GILDA opens a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of beloved performer Gilda Radner, whose greatest role was sharing her story. Working with the Radner estate, director Lisa D’Apolito unearthed a collection of diaries and personal audio and videotapes documenting her childhood, her comedy career, her […]
Sunday, September 9 – OFS Presents: MIRAH + ings 7:00pm door / 8:00pm show $13 General Admission / $10 OFS Members All-Ages / 21+ Lounge Tickets available online now Brooklyn-based Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (b. 1974, Philadelphia) creates incorruptible independent pop music. Defined by her graceful songwriting and adventuresome recordings, Pitchfork has praised her “incredible […]
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August 3 – 9 THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS Tim Wardle’s acclaimed documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS is the most amazing, incredible, remarkable true story ever told. Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete […]
September 26 BAD REPUTATION $9 GA / $6 OFS member Doors 6:30PM / Film 7:00PM Joan Jett is so much more than “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.” It’s true, she became mega-famous from the number-one hit, and that fame intensified with the music video’s endless play on MTV. But that staple of popularity can’t properly […]
August 21 – 30 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? In Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) looks back on the legacy of Fred Rogers, focusing on his radically kind ideas. While the nation changed around him, Fred Rogers stood firm in his beliefs about the importance of […]
September 14 – 20 EIGHTH GRADE Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year—before she begins high school. Dir: Bo Burnham / 2018 / US / 94 min “First-time director Bo Burnham’s […]
Monday, August 6 FREE ADMISSION ERA OF MEGAFIRES Doors 5:30PM / Show 6:00PM Join Thurston CD and the Olympia Film Society for this 60-minute multimedia digital presentation featuring Dr. Paul Hessburg, a research landscape ecologist with Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station. Hessburg explains that over the past decade the number of large, severe wildfires has […]
July 21, 24, & 26 THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF After completing a feature documentary on New York’s High Line, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Piper met the inspirational designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and the idea for a new project was born. The documentary, FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and […]
August 22, 24, 26 OFS Reel Film presents: THREE COLORS: BLUE on 35mm In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study […]
MovieMaker Magazine just released their list of the top 25 coolest film festivals in the world, and Olympia Film Festival made the cut! Every festival should “treat its moviemakers really well,” but does every fest ask a moviemaker what film inspired them, and then screen that film on 35mm? That’s a cut above the rest, […]