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Come and celebrate the return of the wildly popular PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - assembled from the 16mm film collection of Portland film archivist Greg Hamilton.

Screened in from the back row of the theater, this raucous 16mm film mashup features a 10-year old Seth Green, three aliens looking for the meaning of Christmas, and a squad of for-hire Santas.

CARNIVAL NIGHT is a warm, jazzy spectacle and comedy that ushered in the post-Stalin period by taking satirical stabs at grey-faced, finger wagging Party functionaries, and giving a generous bow to the new generation.

In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town's minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of failure, this will be the team's last season.

Exasperated player and coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) lets the club's recent acquisitions, the Hanson Brothers, play. The brothers' actively violent and thuggish style of play excites the fans. Dunlop retools the team, using violence to draw big crowds.

While making a documentary about the Anglo-American coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover extraordinary never seen before archive material hidden for decades.

The 16mm footage and documents not only allow the filmmakers to tell the story of the overthrow of the Iranian government in unprecedented detail, but also lead to explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years.