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August 15, 2023 Olympia Film Society and PNW Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network present: Free Chol Soo Lee $12 GA & $9 OFS Doors 6pm / Film 7pm In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. Sentenced to life, he spends years fighting […]
August 11, 13 & 26, 2023 We Are Your Friends Win a Bandcamp Gift Card and Drink Beer Out of Red Solo Cups on 8/26! Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Rob Patrick The future cult classic that arthouse theaters don’t want you to know about! Young Cole Carter (Zac Efron) dreams of hitting the big […]
Saturday, August 12, 2023 Olympia Film Society presents: Ron Funches – Live! Featuring Blair Socci! $30 GA & $25 OFS 7pm doors / 8pm show Ron Funches is a triple threat. He is an excellent stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. You may know Ron from his many memorable television roles on The Goldbergs, Black•ish, New […]
Monday, August 7, 2023 25th Biennal Evergreen International Phage Meeting presents: Salt In My Soul Post-Film Q&A w/ Diane Shader Smith, Professor Martha Clokie, Steffanie Strethdee and Tom Patterson Doors 6pm / Film 7pm $12 GA & $9 OFS Director Will Battersby’s film transcends the boundaries of a traditional documentary, becoming a multi-faceted and profoundly […]
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August 2, 9, 23 & 30, 2023 REEL ODDITIES: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! This ultrastylish, rapid-fire yakuza thriller plays almost like an anarchic parody of the genre. Cult icon Jo Shishido stars as a detective tasked with tracking down a consignment of stolen firearms—an investigation that draws him into a violent grudge […]
Saturday, July 15, 2023 OFS Presents AFRO-PUNK (2003) Post-film Q&A w/ director James Spooner Moderated by Markly Morrison of Low Profile Live Music by Beverly Crusher $20 GA / $15 OFS 6:00PM Doors / 7:00PM Show Afro-Punk (2003) is an award-winning documentary film directed by James Spooner, exploring the roles of African Americans within what […]
August 18 -24, 2023 Oldboy Includes a new pre-recorded twelve-minute conversation between director Park Chan-Wook and Nicolas Winding Refn. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Park Chan-Wook’s cinematic masterpiece, Oldboy will be released in theaters, restored and remastered in stunning 4K. After being mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned with no human contact for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su […]
July 21 – 27, 2023 Amanda Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old combative Amanda (emerging talent Benedetta Porcaroli) searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for connection but has never had a friend of her […]
7/14, 7/16 & 7/20, 2023 Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Carl Devon Foggey on July 14 From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Clockers and BlacKkKlansman, comes this classic drama about talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) who’s obsessed by his music and […]
July 21 – 27, 2023 The League Directed by Sam Pollard, executive produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Oscar-winning Summer of Soul), Tariq Trotter, and produced by RadicalMedia, The League celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball’s triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed […]