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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 […]
MY PRINCE EDWARD Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong (Stephy Tang) from social pressure to marry. Since accepting her partner’s proposal, she has been under siege by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, intrusive in-laws […]
SOULMATE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Featuring unforgettable performances from Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun — the two made history by tying for “Best Actress” at the Golden Horse Awards — Soulmate portrays the decades-long friendship between two disparate women who both struggle to find themselves. […]
Paulo Rocha Retrospective: CHANGE OF LIFE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Paulo Rocha’s haunting second feature, Change of Life, tells the beautiful and deeply felt story of a young man, a veteran from the war in Angola, who returns home to his remote fishing village to […]
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious […]
CREEM: AMERICA’S ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MAGAZINE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then […]
Paulo Rocha Retrospective: THE GREEN YEARS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his […]