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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 […]
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 […]