A shorts and featurettes program of love, death, and the sea! Our headline film, DAINAH LA DAINAH LA METISSE (1931) is an early masterpiece by French master Jean Gremillon. A strange, stylized and alluring film, DAINAH is a jazzy, nightmarish poem about racial tension and sublimated colonial guilt, set amidst the strange parties and magic-laced maskarades on...
Kristal is a young, ambitious Philadelphian driven to keep families connected to their incarcerated loved ones. But when her father and brother return from prison, she confronts the ultimate question: can she reunite her own family?
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.
Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978!
A Drama of Magical Realism. Charlie Atterbury, a former professional Mentalist, is interviewed by a documentary filmmaker about how he came upon his mind-reading talents after a fatal fall in the forest and mysteriously returns to life with amnesia and starts hearing voices.
Filmmaker in-person for Q&A. Special benefit show for the theater.
Let's celebrate the beginning of Spring, with some performances that'll leave you SPRUNG!! It's an open themed show, so anything goes! Join us as we heat up the last of those cold nights!!
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting self-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy.
Curious about psychedelics, but don’t know where to start? Join Portland Psychedelic Society for an evening of conversation with local experts as we break down the psychedelic basics.