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CHICAGOLAND SHORTS VOL. 6 Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 6 unites the best of documentary, narrative, experimental, video collage, and animated short works from Chicago filmmakers. The sixth volume of Full Spectrum Features’ traveling short film anthology features recent works from established and […]
BEAU TRAVAIL: New 4K Restoration Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of […]
MAKE OUT PARTY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Make Out Party is a no-budget, high-style comedy of errors that follows three vibrant characters though a day of misadventure as they set out to attend hostess Mary Woah’s Make Out Party. Meet Madame X, a leather-clad Venus […]
VINYL NATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, […]
EPICENTRO Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. […]
GHOST TROPIC Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a fifty-eight-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in Brussels in the wake of the 2016 bombings that shook the city. After work one night, she falls asleep on the last subway train, wakes up at the […]
MY PRINCE EDWARD Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong (Stephy Tang) from social pressure to marry. Since accepting her partner’s proposal, she has been under siege by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, intrusive in-laws […]
SOULMATE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Featuring unforgettable performances from Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun — the two made history by tying for “Best Actress” at the Golden Horse Awards — Soulmate portrays the decades-long friendship between two disparate women who both struggle to find themselves. […]
Paulo Rocha Retrospective: CHANGE OF LIFE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Paulo Rocha’s haunting second feature, Change of Life, tells the beautiful and deeply felt story of a young man, a veteran from the war in Angola, who returns home to his remote fishing village to […]
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious […]