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February 14, 2025 The Hawk Foundation for Research and Education in African Culture, The WCLM, Olympia Film Society, and the City of Olympia present: Summer of Soul Introduced by Shawna Hawk M.A., founder of The Women of Color in Leadership Movement and Director of Media Island International 6:30pm Doors & 7pm Film $13 GA & […]
February 13, 20 & 27, 2025 Being John Malkovich Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Angel Camama on 2/13 Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen […]
January 8, 10, & 15, 2026 Peter Hujar’s Day The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by fearless independent American filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages). Based on rediscovered transcripts […]
February 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025 Reel Oddities: Bound Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of […]
January 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025 OFS Kids Club Presents: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Free for Kids 12 and Under When Pee-wee Herman’s idyllic world is destroyed by the theft of his fire-engine red bicycle, our hero sets out on a manic cross-country odyssey to recover his most valued possession. Director Tim Burton makes his […]
January 2, 19, 23 & 26, 2025 Flow A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on […]
January 16, 17 & 25, 2025 News from Home Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Kelly Ramirez on 1/16 Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous […]
Saturday, March 8, 2025 Jubal Fresh – Live! VIP (First Two Rows of Main Floor): $28.25 General Admission: $23.25 OFS: $20.25 7pm doors / 8pm show All Prices Include Service Fees Jubal Fresh, from the Hits 106 morning show, is a standup comedian, a Marconi Award winning radio host, television personality, comedy writer, and graffiti […]
January 9, 10 & 11, 2026 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic–presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss […]
February 6 – 13, 2025 Sing Sing Nominated for three Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song. Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. When a wary […]