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DUSK-TIL-DAWN DRIVE-IN MARATHON! Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society $20 ticket: All Four Films! This specially-curated package includes four films from some of the masters of Euro-horror. Jean Rollin’s The Nude Vampire, Jess Franco’s A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Mario Bava’s The House of Exorcism and Pete Walker’s House of […]
NATIVE SON – NEW RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright’s Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African-American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral […]
THE DARK DIVIDE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! The Dark Divide is based on the true story of renowned butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle’s (David Cross) perilous 1995 journey across one of America’s largest undeveloped wildlands. At the urging of his dying wife Thea (Debra Messing), […]
SIGNATURE MOVE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! In Chicago, Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty-something American-Pakistani lawyer who lives with and cares for her recently widowed, TV-obsessed mother (legendary Indian actress Shabana Azmi). Alma (Sari Sanchez) is a free-spirited Mexican-American bookshop owner. After meeting in a […]
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 […]