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Sunday, November 6 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW PREMIERE PETER AND THE FARM 4:00pm Eco-conscious consumers may rush to the farmer’s market for local, organic meats, fruits, and vegetables, but Peter and the Farm suggests that they might spare a thought for the tormented soul who reaps the harvest. For more than […]
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Sunday, November 6, 2016 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents SUSPIRIA Rare archival 35mm screening 9:00pm Both the pinnacle of his career and of the giallo subgenre, Dario Argento’s Suspiria ranks in the pantheon of the greatest horror movies of all time, and with damn good reason. Masterfully employing dream logic and gloriously garish […]
Monday, November 7 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON 6:30pm An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, A Poem Is a Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974. […]
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Monday, November 7 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents RUMBLE FISH 9:00pm Master filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather) directs this story of a young man’s struggle to live up to his adored brother’s reputation in an impoverished Oklahoma town. Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke are Rusty James and The Motorcycle Boy, […]
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Tuesday, November 8 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW WONDERS THE FABRICATED PARTNER OF CODY MCGUIRE Post-film Q&A with director Jonah Barrett 4pm Cody McGuire has just returned from an important doctor’s appointment, only to find an attractive but naïve artificially created man on her doorstep named Mr. Perfect. With the help of […]
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Tuesday, November 8 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NATIONAL BIRD 6:30pm From executive producers Wim Wenders and Errol Morris, National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistle-blowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: the secret U.S. drone war. At […]
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Tuesday, November 8 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents SUPER DUPER VIDEO Hosted by Buddy and Friday Hangs 9:00pm Don’t miss this psychedelic, one-of-a-kind, not-for-kids evening of all-out puppet mania featuring live performances mixed with a selection of rare and unseen puppet television shows, films, and specials from around the world. Brace yourself for […]
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Wednesday, November 9 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NO HOME MOVIE 4:00pm No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman’s final documentary, is a sober, profoundly moving portrait of the filmmaker’s mother Natalia in the months leading up to her death, when she was mostly confined to her Brussels apartment. A Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz, […]
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Wednesday, November 9 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW PREMIERE SIDEMEN: LONG ROAD TO GLORY 6:30pm Sidemen: Long Road To Glory is an intimate look at the incredible lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf sidemen. This […]
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Wednesday, November 9 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents MULTIPLE MANIACS 9:00pm John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature returns at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Baltimore, with Waters taking on nearly every […]
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