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Thursday September 12th 2019 DAMMED TO EXTINCTION w/ POST-FILM Q&A with a book sale by Orca Books Doors 6:30pm / Show 7pm Tickets $10 GA / $7 OFS Join us for a screening of the important film that tells the story of orca scientists, local citizens, tribal members, and others who have been working to […]
9/18, 9/28 and 10/6 STREETWISE Seattle, 1983. Taking their camera to the streets, filmmaker Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of those society had left behind: homeless and runaway teenagers living on the city’s margins. Born from a Life magazine exposé by Mark and McCall, […]
AUGUST 23 – 28 DONT LOOK BACK $9 GA / $6 OFS Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly entertaining […]
August 30 – September 11 OFS Reel Film presents… ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD on 35mm Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry […]
Saturday October 5th 2019 OLYMPIA’S OWN TUSH! BURLESQUE GETS…EXTRA! Doors 7pm / Show 8pm Tickets $20 GA / $30 VIP 18+ Join TUSH! As we get EXTRA! this fall – aiming to bring to the Capitol Theater stage the BEST we can of the absolute damn MOST! On Saturday October 5th expect the unexpected, shield […]
MONDAY, September 23 $5-$15 sliding scale! 6:30PM at the Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA) “S.O.S.! Understanding EPK’s, DCP’s, and More” – a Local Sightings Workshop Register here! Troubles always seem to come in threes, and EPKs and DCPs are no exception. These acronyms can lead to some filmmakers scratching their heads. Why […]
August 30 – September 5 MAIDEN In 1989, the very idea of a competitive all-female sailboat crew was nearly inconceivable to the manly world of open-ocean yacht racing. They’d never make it to the start of the Whitbread Round the World Race, much less survive to the finish. They’d never find funding. They didn’t have […]
August 23 – 29 MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a […]
September 20 – 26 THE FAREWELL In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her […]
OCTOBER 25 TRASHTERPIECE THEATER: SHOWGIRLS $9 GA / $6 OFS Introduced and guest programmed by Pacific Northwest filmmaker Maren Moreno The stunning cult classic! Vegas, baby. Where the dreams and desires to make it big are as sharp as a stiletto heel. Enter Nomi (Elizabeth Berkley), a girl with the looks and drive to devour […]