Black to the Past on 16mm
Black to the Past on 16mm
Join Astral Projections for a decades-spanning dive into black art and music on 16mm film.
$10
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Melange: A Queer and P.O.C. Variety Show
Melange: A Queer and P.O.C. Variety Show
Thicc. Voluptuous. Juicy. However you wanna describe this cast, these $EXY BABES are about to show you what $en$uality, $3xuality, playfulness, & and being a big-bodied powerhouse is all about!!
$15
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1 event,
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his feature debut, this film parodies the blaxploitation genre (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Foxy Brown, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Top of the Heap, et al.) with an outstanding cast of well-known celebrities and up-and-coming actors for the time
$10
1 event,
THE LITTLE GIRL OF HANOI & Vietnam Animation Studio (Church of Film)
THE LITTLE GIRL OF HANOI & Vietnam Animation Studio (Church of Film)
A harrowing and remarkable drama, LITTLE GIRL OF HANOI was miraculously shot during the final year of the US invasion of Vietnam. Praised for its exquisite visual style and emotional rawness, it's a scathing indictment of the devastation wrought by the war.
$10
1 event,
Blessings Movie Night Presents: Neptune Frost
Blessings Movie Night Presents: Neptune Frost
Portland visual artist Eatcho and musician Roman Norfleet join forces for this month’s Blessings Movie Night with an original live score to NEPTUNE FROST (2021).
$10
1 event,
The Ricky Winters Show
The Ricky Winters Show
Portland's #1 Tabloid Talk Show is back for its one year anniversary show! Ricky Winters (James Hartenfeld) dives into dramatic and painful topics with outrageous guests in this hilarious Jerry Springer-ish tabloid talk show that has sold out at venues everywhere.
$20
3 events,
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
Presented by the Portland Lesbian Choir to help you join in at all your favorite parts!
$15
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
Presented by the Portland Lesbian Choir to help you join in at all your favorite parts!
$15
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret
Tonight's screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.
$12
1 event,
Eve’s Bayou
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.
$10
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They Call Her Death
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.
$10
1 event,
Annual Fat Tuesday Celebration with Les Blank
Annual Fat Tuesday Celebration with Les Blank
Put on your beads and warm up the jambalaya, we're celebrating Mardi Gras with a special screening of the two Les Blank documentaries.
$10
1 event,
WILLOW SPRINGS (Church of Film)
WILLOW SPRINGS (Church of Film)
With entrancing desert photography, and a blend of old pop and blues mixing indiscriminately with opera records, WILLOW SPRINGS is a haunting, bizarre, morbid and darkly comical piece of German New Cinema from one of the movement’s most provocative queer icons.
$10
1 event,
La Pointe Courte
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.
$10
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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.
$10
3 events,
Jacquot of Nantes
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.
$10
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
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.
$10
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Sinophelia
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Sinophelia
Come watch our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978. If you’ve ever wanted to attend, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time, our special host for this evening, Sin, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks, proper prop timing, and how to dance the Time Warp.
$10
2 events,
The Gleaners and I
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.
$10
Faces Places
Faces Places
Renowned filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship, capturing the portraits of the people they meet along the way. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
$10
1 event,
Lifers: A Local H Movie
Lifers: A Local H Movie
Local H singer/guitarist and the film's director, Scott Lucas, will perform a short, acoustic set before the screening, followed by a Q&A after the film.
$15
1 event,
SATANIK (Church of Film)
SATANIK (Church of Film)
SATANIK is a lurid and wildly entertaining take on the Italian fumetti neri, a Dr. Jekyl and Ms. Hyde with eye-popping costuming and shameless sex and violence.
$10
1 event,
1 event,
Drag Dangerzone Presents: Satellite of Love: A mst3k Drag Parody
Drag Dangerzone Presents: Satellite of Love: A mst3k Drag Parody
Mystery Science Theater 3000...BUT MAKE IT DRAG!
$17
3 events,
RESCHEDULED: The Unofficial Game Grumps Drag Show
RESCHEDULED: The Unofficial Game Grumps Drag Show
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER! LOOK FOR A NEW DATE AND TIME SOON! ALL ORIGINAL TICKETS WILL BE HONORED!
$15
An Evening with John Nilsen
An Evening with John Nilsen
John Nilsen brings his talents to The Clinton Street Theater for one night only to perform a special solo set on his digital piano. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see his internationally renowned musicianship in such an intimate setting.
$20
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret
Tonight's screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.
$12
1 event,
The Stupidest Bitch Pageant
The Stupidest Bitch Pageant
Watch as 17 of the most outrageous, ridiculous, and hilarious drag entertainers in the Portland Metro battle it out for the tiniest crown in Portland.
$15
1 event,
Film is Dead. Long Live Film!
Film is Dead. Long Live Film!
Film collectors rescue and preserve obscure and forgotten photochemical films from basement vault, releasing and restoring titles before analog film disappear, blurring lines between piracy and preservation as archives seek their holdings.
$10
1 event,
Underground Women on 16mm
Underground Women on 16mm
Join archivists Ioana and Garrett of Astral Projections for an evening of subversive feminine film from throughout the 20th century, featuring selections from the Nyback Archive. You'll see a documentary about women in experimental film, an interview with the inimitable gardener Ruth Stout, a satirical short about labor, and so much more!
$10
1 event,
THE BLIND OWL (Church of Film)
THE BLIND OWL (Church of Film)
THE BLIND OWL is Chilean Surrealist Raul Ruiz's spinning of Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat's beloved 1937 novella through dreams and movies, full of ghastly and sublime images. It's a ghostly reflection on modern mythology, Orientalism, and editing as an act of destruction, considered one of the director's finest achievements.
$10
1 event,
Star Wars vs Star Trek
Star Wars vs Star Trek
A night of Drag & Burlesque acts featuring some of you’re favorite characters from both universes.
$17
1 event,
Chopping Mall and Night of the Comet with Kelli Maroney
Chopping Mall and Night of the Comet with Kelli Maroney
Actress Kelli Maroney comes to The Clinton Street Theater for a double feature presented by Queer Screams film festival!
$25
2 events,
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.
$10
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Thom Hilton
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Thom Hilton
Come watch our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978. If you’ve ever wanted to attend, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time, our special host for this evening, Thom Hilton, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks, proper prop timing, and how to dance the Time Warp.
$10
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1 event,
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline. Free screening presented by 350PDX.
Free
1 event,
Girlfriends
Girlfriends
A small-time photographer, who supports herself by shooting baby pictures, weddings, and bar mitzvahs, learns how to be alone when her roommate decides to get married and leave New York City. Produced and directed by Claudia Weill.
$10
1 event,
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (Church of Film)
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (Church of Film)
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP is a wondrous and strange prestige-television adaptation of Angela Carter's beloved first Magic Realist novel, with a screenplay she provided herself.
$10
1 event,
The Love Witch
The Love Witch
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences. Written, edited, directed, produced, and scored by Anna Biller.
$10
1 event,
That’s Camp
That’s Camp
With a cast of Portland’s finest—Anna Karenema, Aqua Flora, Heavy Cream, Mars, Max Little, U_Phoria and XO Skeleton—this is drag and comedy at its most spectacular, outlandish, and deliciously deranged. So fasten your lashes, grab your pearls, and buckle up for a night of CAMP!
$15
4 events,
The Amazing Bubble Man
The Amazing Bubble Man
From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
$10 – $17
The Amazing Bubble Man
The Amazing Bubble Man
From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
$10 – $17
I Saw The TV Glow
I Saw The TV Glow
A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show. Written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun.
$10
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1 event,
Sleepbomb: Live Score Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Sleepbomb: Live Score Night of the Living Dead (1968)
San Francisco-based psychedelic doom project Sleepbomb returns to The Clinton Street Theater for a special live score to George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead!
$25
1 event,
Direct Action (2024)
Direct Action (2024)
Portland premiere of a new documentary directed by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell about the daily routines of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers, and people the government deems "eco-terrorists"—a modern portrait of one of the most important militant activist communities in France. Q&A with director Ben Russell following the film.
$10
1 event,
Retro With XO Presents: SHOCK SHOW!
Retro With XO Presents: SHOCK SHOW!
A 1970 - 1980s Themed Horror Drag Show. Featuring 13 drag performers paying homage to horror classics — everything from The Wicker Man And Eraserhead, to Lair of the White Worm and Return of the Living Dead — and so much more!
$15
1 event,
Pom Poko
Pom Poko
In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Isao Takahata, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object.
$10