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October 17, 18 & 27, 2024 Golden Eighties The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. Amid the consumerist wonderland of a shopping mall, a cadre of store employees bounce […]
October 2, 16, 23 & 30, 2024 Reel Oddities: Carnival of Souls A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside […]
Thursday, October 24, 2024 Thurston-Lewis-Mason Central Labor Council presents: Labor Wars of the Northwest Post-Film Discussion w/ Union Leaders Free Admission 6pm doors / 7pm film Labor Wars of the Northwest chronicles the cauldron of discontent, radicalism and violence that permeated the region in the early decades of the twentieth century. Following the arrival of […]
October 10, 11 & 13, 2024 Basquiat: Black and White Version New 4K Restoration No painter electrified the 1980s art scene like Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York street kid whose visionary blending of expressionism, pop art, and the radical new aesthetics of hip-hop and graffiti propelled him to international fame before a tragic early demise. […]
Thursday, August 29, 2024 Evergreen Experimental Animation and More Short Q&A w/ Artists to Follow Screening 3:30pm doors / 4pm Films Free Admission Every summer a few intrepid Evergreeners embark on an intensive adventure to create cameraless animation on 16mm and 35mm film in five weeks using a myriad of handcrafted techniques not recommended by […]
Saturday, September 14, 2024 StoryOly Grand Slam Hosted by Elizabeth Lord With Musical Guest Vendredi’s Bag $20 GA & OFS P.W.Y.C at the door. A Portion of the Proceeds Benefit Community Youth Services 6pm doors / 7pm show 14+ StoryOly is Olympia’s premiere Story Slam event. From November to August, community members come together at monthly […]
Friday, September 13, 2024 On the Backstage: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Winston Hightower $20 General Admission & $17 OFS Member Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:00pm Joe Lally was onstage, playing at full throttle, when he realized that his band had found a true kindred spirit. It was the fall of 2021 and the Messthetics […]
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September 6, 7 & 15, 2024 The Conversation 4K Restoration Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if he turns the […]
September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024 Reel Oddities: Videodrome 4K Director’s Cut When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” His attempts to unearth the program’s origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into a […]
November 1, 2 & 3, 2024 The Burmese Harp New 4K Restoration In the last days of World War II, a Japanese platoon sustains morale through the Burma campaign by singing traditional songs, accompanied by the delicate harp-playing of Private Mizushima (Shoji Yasui). After the unit surrenders to British forces, Mizushima is tasked with convincing […]