Join us this March for The Clinton Street Theater’s Women in Film series, celebrating the contributions of women onscreen and behind the camera. From fan-favorite musicals to foreign gems and award-winning dramas, these titles showcase some of the best filmmaking of the last sixty years, many of them ground-breaking works by celebrated auteurs. Take a chance on something new or see a beloved classic. Thanks to Melissa Sullivan Shimek for the poster!
Women in Film Screenings
Mamma Mia!
Presented by the Portland Lesbian Choir to help you join in at all your favorite parts!
Mamma Mia!
Presented by the Portland Lesbian Choir to help you join in at all your favorite parts!
Eve’s Bayou
A Southern Gothic masterpiece. Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons in her feature debut. Listed as the Best Film of 1997 by Roger Ebert and called "one of the greatest writer-director debuts in American cinematic history" by critic Angelica Jade Bastién.
They Call Her Death
Portland premiere! Vinegar Syndrome Pictures presents a Sunrunner Films production—Molly Pray is on a bloody crusade against the criminal forces who have wronged her. Her mission strikes at the myth of manifest destiny, but for Molly, with the embodied specter of Death on her side, this isn't political. This is personal.
La Pointe Courte
Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Part of the Agnès Varda film festival.
Cléo from 5 to 7
A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
Jacquot of Nantes
Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy—a dream project that she realized for him when he became too ill to direct it himself—is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man and an enchanting ode to the magic of cinema. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is one of Agnès Varda’s warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.