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Canceled due to concerns over omicron All tickets purchases will be refunded Please contact [email protected] Saturday, February 12, 2022 Olympia’s Own TUSH! Burlesque presents Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder 7pm doors/ 8pm show $30 VIP (first five rows) / $20 GA 21+ Olympia’s Own TUSH! Burlesque presents “Distance makes the heart grow fonder”- and […]
C’MON C’MON January 13 – 27, 2022 Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills. Dir: Mike Mills / […]
BENEDETTA December 3-16, 2021 A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair. Dir: Paul Verhoeven / 2021 / FRANCE, NETHERLANDS / 131 min “Benedetta is a substantial, sophisticated, yet briskly paced and […]
THE NOVICE January 22 – 30, 2022 A queer college freshman (Isabelle Fuhrman) joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. One of our favorite films of 2021 with an astonishing directorial debut by Lauren Hadaway. Dir: Lauren […]
December 17, 19, 2021 WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s director of programming, Rob Patrick on 12/17 What’s Up, Doc? is a 1972 American romantic screwball comedy film released by Warner Bros., directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn. It pays homage to comedy films of […]
SCHOOL DAZE (1988) Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets available on November 12, 2021 Innovative filmmaker, Spike Lee (She’s Gotta Have It), brings to the screen a music-filled, offbeat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life. Amidst gala coronations, football, fraternities, parades and parties, the […]
December 2, 4 & 5, 2021 GODZILLA: 4K RESTORATION Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment […]
KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME November 19-December 3, 2021 Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. Robert B. Weide is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He has directed a number of documentaries and was the principal director and an executive […]
SPENCER November 19-28, 2021 The marriage of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will […]
BEANS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets available on November 5, 2021 Twelve-year-old Beans (Kiawentiio from AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and ANNE WITH AN E) is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs […]