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Monday, October 14, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents: A Capitol Theater Centennial Celebration Swansea Sound Lois Mount Eerie Heavenly $20 GA & $15 OFS 7pm doors / 8pm show 30-minute set from each artist <3 We’re celebrating our centennial with Swansea Sound, Lois, Mount Eerie, and Heavenly! About Heavenly: Heavenly formed in 1989 out of […]
August 16, 23 & 31, 2024 Amadeus: 4K Restoration Director Milos Forman’s celebrated film about an 18th century rivalry between journeyman court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham in an Academy Award–winning tour-de-force performance) and his rival, young upstart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (fellow Best Actor nominee Tom Hulce) receives a brand new 4K restoration. Saul […]
Saturday, October 5, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents: Sleater-Kinney Oh, Rose $50 GA & OFS 7pm doors 8pm show General On-Sale this Friday, August 16th @ 10AM PST Sleater-Kinney returns to the Capitol Theater stage for a very special centennial performance! Join us as we celebrate 30-years of SK and 100-years of the Capitol Theater. […]
Saturday, October 12, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents: Wild at Heart Post-Film Q&A w/ Sherilyn Fenn Moderated by Stefanie Powell $30 GA & $25 OFS 6pm doors / 7pm show A Nerds candy version of a Sam Fuller film. Laura Dern and Nic Cage get caught up in a cat’s cradle of rubber-burning terror. This […]
September 26 – October 3, 2024 Didi In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. At its premiere in competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Not Your China Doll: Shanghai Express and Post-Film Author Talk w/ Katie Gee Salisbury 6pm doors & 7pm film $13 GA & $10 OFS Join us for a special 4K restoration of Shanghai Express. After the film concludes, Katie Gee Salisbury, the author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and […]
August 9, 10 & 15, 2024 Ghostlight Devastated by the loss of a child, middle-aged father Dan struggles to control his anger at work and grows distant from his grief-stricken family. When a stranger (Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness) bullies him into joining a floundering community theater production of Romeo and Juliet, Dan slowly […]
September 19, 20 & 22, 2024 Paris, Texas 4K Restoration Programmed by Olympia Film Society Volunteer Jeff Powell New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows […]
August 15, 17 & 18, 2024 Celebrating 100 Years of Movies at the Capitol Theater: The Awful Truth Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Director of Programming, Rob Patrick, on 8/17 In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection […]
September 1 – 7, 2024 Cuckoo Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute […]