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I BLAME SOCIETY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! A struggling filmmaker (Gillian Wallace Horvat) senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film… and committing the perfect murder. Directed by former Olympia […]
SAINT FRANCES Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Flailing thirty-four-year-old Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) finally catches a break when she meets a nice guy and lands a much-needed job nannying six-year-old Frances (played by a scene-stealing Ramona Edith-Williams). But an unwanted pregnancy introduces an unexpected complication. To make […]
THE LIBRARY THAT DOLLY BUILT Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! The Library That Dolly Built, directed and produced by journalism professor and director of Land Grant Films Nick Geidner, and narrated by Danica McKellar, goes behind the scenes of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, to show how […]
WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI – 4K RESTORATIONS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Single tickets: $12 Passes: $70 We are thrilled to present World of Wong Kar Wai, a seven film retrospective that spans the director’s celebrated career. All of the titles — The Hand, In […]
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society beginning on 12/19 Streaming tickets now available! Yoko (former J-pop idol Atsuko Maeda) travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan (breathtakingly captured by veteran DP Akiko Ashizawa) to shoot an episode of her reality TV travel show. In front […]
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (1998) – NEW 4K RESTORATION Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a […]
CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! CROCK OF GOLD – A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN deep dives into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who […]
ZAPPA Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s […]
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 […]