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Friday, November 8, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents: 50th Anniversary: Phantom of the Paradise w/ Live Shadowcast $20 GA & $15 OFS 6pm doors / 7pm show Join OFS for a special shadowcast 50th anniversary screening of the cult classic, Phantom of the Paradise. This bonkers and beloved musical tells the story of Winslow Leach, […]
Saturday, October 26, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents Night of the Living Tribute Bands 2024 A Perfect Circle L7 Jefferson Starship Crowded House Weezer 7:00pm doors / 8:00pm show (All Ages) $15 general / $10 members Are you ready to attend one of the most mind-blowing concerts of the year? Musicians are reanimating bands of […]
Friday, October 25, 2024 Olympia Film Society presents: Otherside Cabaret Featuring: Dahlia Belle, Amy Graves, Rae Faer, and HRLND $20 GA & $17 OFS 7pm doors 8pm show 18+ Between the worlds of the Living and the Dead stands a curtain and for those audacious enough to glance upon the other side, a breathtaking production is revealed. Friday, […]
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. […]