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COLLECTIVE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. […]
FRANCISCA – NEW 4K RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Based on Agustina Bessa-Luís’ acclaimed novel, itself inspired by a true story that occurred in the 19th century, Manoel de Oliveira’s Francisca recounts the life of a young man, a son of an English officer, who […]
SMOOTH TALK – NEW 4K RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ celebrated short story “Where […]
MARTIN EDEN Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the […]
LA STRADA – NEW 4K RESTORATION WINNER – First-ever Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, […]
SWEETGRASS – NEW RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! A New Digital Restoration! An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly […]
THE DONUT KING Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Ted’s story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption. It’s the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, […]
NATIONTIME – 4K RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black […]
WHITE RIOT Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right and fascist political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from […]
HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! The inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/activist Harry Chapin (“Cat’s in the Cradle”). Chapin sold over 16 million albums and was one of his generation’s most beloved artists-activists who spent his fame and fortune […]