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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 […]
September 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2024 OFS Kids Club Presents: The Princess Bride Free for Kids 12 and Under In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, and rodents of unusual size. But even death […]
September 8, 2024 Olympia Film Society, Palestinian Action of South Sound, and Rachel Corrie Foundation present: Two Films for Palestine: A Benefit for Middle East Children’s Alliance Bake Sale and Fundraiser Featuring: Imprisoning a Generation (50 min) Returning to Zarnouqa (14 min) 6pm doors / 7pm first film Q&A to Follow $10 Suggested Donation (no […]
August 16 – 22, 2024 Longlegs In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree. Dir: Oz Perkins / 2024 / US / 101 min “Nerve-jangling and devilishly bleak, Longlegs is easily the front-runner for scariest movie of 2024.” […]
August 29 – September 5, 2024 Kneecap When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save […]