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October 4 – 11, 2024 Sugarcane A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on […]
October 4, 6 & 13, 2024 La Religieuse – 4K Restoration In eighteenth century France, novice Suzanne (Anna Karina) is compelled to take her vows and become a nun. As she does what she can to resist, Suzanne is shuttled between convents with widely different Mothers Superior, ranging from maternal to sadistic to amorous. Based […]
October 6, 13 & 27, 2024 OFS Kids Club Presents: ParaNorman Free for Kids 12 and Under Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead — and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman receives word from his strange Uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman) that a centuries-old […]
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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