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January 2 – 8 The Babadook In The Babadook a single mother must face her demons—real and imagined. Amelia, who still hasn’t dealt properly with the death of her husband, is trying her best to raise her son who was born on the night of her tragic loss. Samuel is a precocious child haunted by […]
January 23 – 29 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Icy cool and shot in placid black and white, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the most inventive and dreamy take on the vampire genre, since Only Lovers Left Alive. Gliding on her skateboard, enshrouded in a flowing black chador, the Girl […]
January 9 – 15 ROSEWATER Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, Rosewater, is based on the 118 days that Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was held in an Iranian prison charged with espionage after he returned to his native country to report on the 2009 election that culminated in the youth-led Green Wave and subsequent government crackdown. Bahari […]
February 6 – 12 FOXCATCHER Bennett Miller’s (Capote, Moneyball) third film, Foxcatcher is a meticulously-detailed, psychologically nuanced true-crime story of the events that led to the 1996 murder of Olympic gold medal wrestler Dave Schultz by John E. du Pont, multimillionaire heir to the manufacturing dynasty, who had sponsored/employed both Dave and his brother […]
January 30 – February 5 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING The Theory of Everything is the story of the courtship and marriage of the phenomenally popular game-changing physics professor Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde, and how they both struggled with and surpassed all predictions for Hawking’s degeneration due to Motor Neuron Disease. Meeting while Cambridge graduate […]
January 16 – 22 Citizenfour CITIZENFOUR is a real-life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency […]
January 16 – 22 Force Majeure In the black comedy Force Majeure a family unravels after a freak accident. Thomas and Ebba and their two young sons are off on a ski vacation at an exclusive resort in the Alps. Everything seems fine—the only tension revolving around Thomas’ constant attention to his phone—until an avalanche […]
January 23 – 29 WHIPLASH Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash depicts the trial by fire endured by Andrew (The Spectacular Now’s Miles Teller), a talented and committed young drummer newly admitted to the Shaffer Music Conservatory in Manhattan, at the hands of teacher Terrence Fletcher (a career-best and likely award-winning ferocious performance by J.K. Simmons), who […]
THANK YOU FOR A FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL! THE THEATER WILL RE-OPEN SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25th
Friday, November 21 Northwest Snowboards Presents WINTER VIDEO PREMIERE 2014 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show $6.00 general admission / $5 advance & OFS members Tickets available online, box office and at Northwest Snowboards Mezzanine Lounge Open (21+ w/ ID) This is the best 5 bucks you’ll ever spend! This year NWS presents 3 killer vids. […]