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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 […]
August 14, 18, & 20, 2022 WHEN HARRY MET SALLY on 35mm (1989) Print Courtesy of Park Circus & Warner Bros. $11 GA / $8 OFS New York City in the fall? Nora Ephron created it when she wrote When Harry Met Sally. This romantic-comedy classic has everything: Billy Crystal dunking a basketball in a […]
September 8 – 17, 2022 FUNNY PAGES $11 General Admission & $8 OFS members A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul. Dir: Owen Kline / 2022 / US / 86 min “A fresh and uncompromising feature debut” – Jordan […]
PRE-CODE PARTY: BLONDE CRAZY (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 […]
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Olympia Film Society presents: Screen Scores NOSFERATU: 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY LIVE SCORE BY INVINCIBLE CZARS $15 GA & $12 OFS members Doors 7pm / Show 8pm “Gorgeous” – Metal Sucks “Bizarre, haunting scores” – Kerrang! “(The Invincible Czars’ soundtrack for Nosferatu is) a brilliantly realized wedding of contemporary musical sensibility and […]
SECOND SHOW: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 – SOLD OUT Bikini Kill Hurry Up 7:00PM Doors / 8:00PM Show $25 GA & OFS All ages w/ 21+ lounge Limit four (4) tickets per purchase General Admission tickets available Friday, December 13 at 9am PST Bikini Kill is a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia, […]
September 3, 4 & 9, 2022 SWEET CHARITY (1969): 4K RESTORATION ROADSHOW VERSION $11 GA / $8 OFS Shirley MacLaine gives one of her greatest performances in this spectacular musical. Director Bob Fosse broke new cinematic ground with this freewheeling, visually stunning story of a lovelorn New York dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, who […]