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.
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.
Put on your beads and warm up the jambalaya, we're celebrating Mardi Gras with a special screening of the two Les Blank documentaries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mystery Science Theater 3000...BUT MAKE IT DRAG!
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER! LOOK FOR A NEW DATE AND TIME SOON! ALL ORIGINAL TICKETS WILL BE HONORED!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
A night of Drag & Burlesque acts featuring some of you’re favorite characters from both universes.
Actress Kelli Maroney comes to The Clinton Street Theater for a double feature presented by Queer Screams film festival!
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.
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.
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline. Free screening presented by 350PDX.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
