Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, director Akira Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society.
Co-written by Hayao Miyazaki in his feature directorial debut!
A special Labor Day double feature; two films for the price of one!
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu.
AUGUST IN WATER saw cyberpunk cult icon Gakuryu (Sogo) Ishii shifting toward metaphysical, poetic, and hallucinatory films in the 90s, under the influence of Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard.
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Jack Nicholson. Featuring a pre-film drag tribute show starring the spectacular U-PHORIA & Pre-show QUEER FEMME WITCH DISCO by superstar DJ Chelsea Starr! Hosted by Violet Hex.
Directed by Isao Takahata and based on a concept by Hayao Miyazaki, this is a charming early-career classic from two animation legends before they co-founded the award-winning Studio Ghibli.
Intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan, the King of the Monsters fights an alien life form that arrives on Earth and steadily grows by feeding on industrial waste. Director Yoshimitsu Banno infuses the film with equal parts ecological horror, humorous monster antics, and sixties psychedelia straight out of San Francisco, making for a truly unique—and divisive—entry in the series.
A Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch
Based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse and directed by Shōhei Imamura—a key figure in the Japanese New Wave and an early assistant to Yasujirō Ozu, this film swept the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards.
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders.
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. Directed by Satoshi Kon.
Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning films is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace. Winner of three prizes at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, including Best Screenplay.
Built upon radical collectives, Japanese experimental art and cinema revived itself in the wake of the disastrous world war with renewed energy and purpose, adventuring into all media to explore a brave new world.
Back for a second time! Portland visual artist Eatcho and musician Pink Buddha join forces for GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) based on Masamune Shirow's manga, directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by Kazunori Itō.
The second film in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series—after spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.
From dream to screen, in only 48 hours. Catch these films on the big screen while you still can!
From dream to screen, in only 48 hours. Catch these films on the big screen while you still can!
Curious? Nervous? We've got you covered. Come dip into the shallow end of the pool at Rocky Horror for Virgins—our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie.
A new documentary that centers on America's civic unraveling by exploring the decline of social capital and the divisions in American society through the lens of scientist Robert Putnam.
From dream to screen, in only 48 hours. Catch these films on the big screen while you still can!
Watch as two 16mm programming teams (Darkroom Associates and Astral Projections) fire up their projectors and trade cinematic jabs back and forth by screening selections from the world-famous Dennis Nyback 16mm film archive! No one knows what will be screened next - cartoons, music, educational films, documentary shorts and weird advertisements run amok! There are no rules, no prisoners, and no show is the same!
Based on folk tales, dreams, modern art and political nightmares, this beautiful set provides an eye-popping sample of the Iranian avant-garde through the last 50 years.
Watch Twilight Again, organized by Blue Holgate and Jenna Vesper, brings the Twilight Saga back to the Clinton Street Theater. Shout iconic lines, sing along to the unforgettable soundtrack, play some trivia, and come dressed as your favorite characters for a chance to win exciting raffle prizes! Embrace your inner Twihard and connect with other fans who share the obsession with sparkly vampires, teen wolves, and father figure doctors.
It's the nightmare before Christmas and the Fall Equinox is here, what better way to bring in Halloween than a tribute to Oingo Boingo!
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.
The Clinton Street Cabaret is proud to partner with Cascade AIDS Project and will be fundraising for AIDS Walk NW. This show will feature an exciting lineup of raffle prizes, and variety acts showcasing their talented cast members! All proceeds from raffle ticket and merch sales will be donated to Cascade AIDS Project.
Let's celebrate the and of summer, and usher in the fall, with some performances that'll warm you up, as the weather cools down!
Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by Victor Krummenacher, co-founded the band Camper Van Beethoven and longstanding member of Monks of Doom.
BEYOND GOOD & EVIL is Liliana Cavani's most complete vision, an epic of debauchery and philosophy, perversion and politics, delirium and destruction.
Learn more about District 3 candidates in the upcoming city council election. Unlike other candidate forums, this event does not claim to be "politically neutral," though it is candidate neutral. Questions will be poised from a progressive/left-wing angle and cover a wide range of topics.
Join your hosts Ry Bred & Tomboy for a night of high camp, featuring performances from Portland’s crème-de-la-camp: Anyanka, Harlow Quinzel, Heavy Cream, Khadijah Diamond, Lyta Blunt, Umbruh, Duchess and La Mama Dora.
Our annual hosting of the 27th Manhattan Short film festival takes place on Saturday, September 28, part of the worldwide event taking place in over 500 venues across six continents.
Curious? Nervous? We've got you covered. Come dip into the shallow end of the pool at Rocky Horror for Virgins—our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie.
A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she is haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion.
Destiny Smokez (Melange) and Marla Darling (Bjork Friday) are teaming up together to bring you an amazing tribute to industrial icons, Nine Inch Nails.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. Directed by Dario Argento with legendary soundtrack by Goblin.
A new Clinton Street Theater tradition. Come see why this film poster hangs in our lobby year round.
Special screening with a shadowcast performance by The Denton Deliquents!
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.
