Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down in Oregon and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
A masterwork of atmospheric gothic ghastliness! Featuring the rarely seen full length cut of this film.
Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
A collection of poetic pieces that launched the Iranian New Wave! This program includes a set of beautiful work from the Golestan Film Workshop, the first independent film studio in Iran.
THE COW is widely considered the masterpiece of the Iranian New Wave, a symbolic drama so beautiful that even the Ayatollah Khomeini would not ban it, even as its author Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi was exiled. THE COW has been meticulously restored in Iran for the first time since its 1969 release, so come see one of the greatest monuments in film history!
THE DEER is the most revolutionary film of the Iranian New Wave, censored innumerable times and banned to this day in Iran. For the first time it has been restored to its full length and with its original ending! The ending rewritten and shot at the behest of the Pahlavi censors will also be included after the film for comparison.
Portland artist Eatcho and musician Alex Meltzer (of Korgy & Bass) bring a dynamite event to the theater for an unforgettable 420!
THE TALL SHADOW OF THE WINDS is a legendary piece of the Iranian New Wave that weaves revolutionary political allegory into shades of folk horror and uncanny surrealism. The film was released shortly after the Iranian Revolution and promptly banned.
In honor of legendary film collector Dennis Nyback, the A/V Geeks recreate one of his screenings with an unforgettable night of the educational films that traumatized Baby Boomer and Gen-X kids. Before the days of "trigger warnings," these films were designed to shock the audience with their messages!
