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PRE-CODE PARTY: NIGHT NURSE (1931) September 18, 2022 $11 GA / $8 OFS In the pre-code era of the 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck would lay haymakers and Joan Blondell could carelessly ash cigarettes over expensive furniture. It was a lawless period of filmmaking where cocktails, sexuality, and rolling smoke inundated the screen. Olympia Film Society’s Pre-Code […]
Sunday, October 9, 2022 NEW YORK ON FILM, NEW YORK IN LOVE: OBVIOUS CHILD (2014) Presented by Rush in Dumplings Programmed by Lana Schwartz $11 GA / $8 OFS On stage, comedian Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is unapologetically herself. But when Donna gets dumped, loses her job, and finds herself pregnant just in time for […]
Saturday, September 24, 2022 PIGS ON THE WING: A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD $25 Advance / $30 Day of Show 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show “Capturing what made Pink Floyd iconic is a hard thing to do, and Pigs on the Wing come as close as anyone we’ve heard. That looming mystique, that inscrutable grandiosity……Those […]
SCREENING: SAT 9/10 7PM; THU 9/15 7PM; FRI 9/16 7PM; THU 9/22 4PM Director: Vera Chytilová / 1966 / Czechoslovakia / 76 min $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members Tickets are available at the box office 1/2 hour before showtimes. DAISIES (1966): NEW 4K RESTORATION Maybe the Czech New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra […]
September 22, 23 & October 1, 2, 2022 THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic…a creature of reason. While in Istanbul, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. At first, she […]
October 13 – 21, 2022 LOVING HIGHSMITH $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, […]
September 29 & October 1 & 2, 2022 XANADU (1980) Struggling artist Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) is trapped in a dull job painting album covers. He is instantly attracted to Kira (Olivia Newton-John), an anonymous woman randomly photographed in the background of one of his assignments, but no one is able to identify her. Visiting […]
October 13 – 20, 2022 MOONAGE DAYDREAM $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen and sanctioned by the Bowie estate. Five years in the making and featuring never-before-seen footage. Dir: Brett Morgen / 2022 / US / 140 min “At […]
September 1 – 8, 2022 MY OLD SCHOOL $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while […]
Sunday, August 21, 2022 DAN DOBLER MEMORIAL SCREENING Free Admission 3:30PM Doors / 4:00PM Show Dan Dobler, a local legend, recently passed away. We are holding a memorial screening of some of the movies that Dan appeared in…which were many! Dan was a favorite local talent that was cast in films by Reid Urban, Freddy […]