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March 5 – 16, 2023 2023 OSCAR SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY The Elephant Whisperers – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga, India, 40 min. The Elephant Whisperers follows an indigenous couple as they fall in love with Raghu, an orphaned elephant given into their care, and tirelessly work to ensure his recovery and survival. Haulout – Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim […]
March 3 – 16, 2023 2023 OSCAR SHORTS: LIVE-ACTION An Irish Goodbye – Tom Berkeley and Ross White, UK, 23 min. On a farm in rural Northern Ireland, estranged brothers Turlough and Lorcan are forced to reunite following the untimely death of their mother. Ivalu– Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, Denmark, 17 min. Ivalu is gone. Her little […]
February 19 – March 3, 2023 2023 OSCAR SHORTS: ANIMATION The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud, UK, 33 min. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a story of kindness, courage, and hope in traditional hand-drawn animation, following the unlikely friendship of the […]
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2023 REEL ODDITIES: BUBBA HO-TEP (2002) This movie is best explained by Roger Ebert: “Elvis and JFK did not die, and today they’re roommates in an East Texas nursing home whose residents are being killed by an ancient Egyptian Soul Sucker named Bubba Ho-Tep.” Eat your heart out, Austin […]
Friday, March 31, 2023 Olympia Surfrider Chapter & the South Sound Surfrider Chapter Presents: Coextinction Post-Film Discussion w/ Victoria Obermeyer, Coextinction’s executive producer and videographer and John Rosapepe, Endangered Species Coalition $12 GA & $9 OFS members Doors 6pm / Show 7pm Impending extinction comes to a tipping point for one of the world’s most iconic […]
Saturday, March 18, 2023 – SOLD OUT!! The Brotherhood presents: UNWOUND THRONES $30 GA / $25 OFS 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show Tickets on sale 1/19 at 10am PST “Unwound will never reunite so get over it.” —VICE UNWOUND 1991-2091 Born in 1991 in the Pacific Northwest as the Riot Grrrl and grunge musico-social movements […]
Cancelation We hate and love to break this news to you. Keith David’s management has informed OFS that Mr. David accepted an offer for a role in a new HBO Max series created by JJ Abrams (Lost) and LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead) called Duster! The show is set in the ’70s badlands of the […]
March 5, 12 & 19, 26 2023 OFS KIDS CLUB PRESENTS: FINDING NEMO (2003) FREE FOR KIDS 12 & UNDER Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by […]
Saturday, April 1, 2023 ON THE BACKSTAGE: IQU, SELECT LEVEL, NULL STATE $12 GA / $10 OFS 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show IQU (formerly icu, more on that in a second) began in DJ KO’s (aka Kento Oiwa) Olympia, WA basement in 1996. While in Olympia, he found a kinship with Michiko Swiggs and a […]
March 17, 19, 23, 2023 La haine (1995): 4K Restoration Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their […]