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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 […]
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 […]