COMING SOON
You’ve Got Mail x Ethereal Reflections
- Today, Feb 12
Run Time: 119 min.
Tickets $15. Join Ethereal Reflection's Correspondence Club and discover that someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life.
Hairspray (1988) Movie Bingo w/ Violet Hex
- Fri, Feb 13
Run Time: 92 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for an interactive night celebrating John Waters’ campy classic, where every shimmy, stomp, hair flip, and Tracy Turnblad victory might just win you a prize.
Howl’s Moving Castle
- Sat, Feb 14
Run Time: 119 min. Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Tickets $15. Spend your Valentine’s Day wrapped in a little Studio Ghibli magic. Whether you’re celebrating romance, friendship, or simply your love of beautifully animated worlds, Howl’s Moving Castle is the perfect way to escape into something tender, enchanting, and just a little surreal.
In the Mood for Love // 25th Anniversary Edition
- Sat, Feb 14
Run Time: 99 min.
Tickets $15. Spend Valentine’s Day wrapped in the smoky, slow-burn romance of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love—now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion // BYO-Crafternoon x Ritual Dyes
- Sun, Feb 15
Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1997
Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special screening of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, co-hosted by RITUAL DYES.
When Harry Met Sally…
- Sun, Feb 15
Run Time: 96 min.
Tickets $15. Honoring the enduring legacy of Rob Reiner with a screening of When Harry Met Sally…, the sharp, endlessly quotable rom-com that redefined modern movie romance.
Peter Hujar’s Day x Nationale Film Salon
- Thu, Feb 19
Run Time: 76 min. Release Year: 2025
Tickets $15. Join Nationale for a special movie night featuring Peter Hujar's Day. Nationale will be vending Peter Hujar's books and hosting a salon-style discussion after the film.
South Sound Experimental Film Festival ENCORE Edition
- Fri, Feb 20
Run Time: 140 min.
Tickets $15. An evening of thought provoking, visually stimulating, and performative art making. The evening begins with a live soundtrack by musical artist Ceremonial Abyss to the 1972 short film Athanor, followed by an opportunity to explore a curated selection of books on film from Passages Book store. The evening culminates in a mesmerizing short film program.
CRINGE
- Sat, Feb 21
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Cringe has become a referent for overly earnest, uncool, or passé behavior. But what if cringe vulnerability is actually the path to freedom? In this collaborative presentation, Ashley and Jaydra will reach their hands deep inside the belly of cringe, feel around in the viscera, and ultimately expose its guts.
Twice as Nice // Presented by Kalimah Abioto
- Sat, Feb 21
Run Time: 70 min.
Tickets $15. Presented by local writer, filmmaker, and musician Kalimah Abioto, Twice as Nice is the second film by Jessie Maple, a pioneering independent African American filmmaker.
Perfect Blue
- Sun, Feb 22
Run Time: 82 min. Language: Japanese
Tickets $15. Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Malcolm X
- Sun, Feb 22
Run Time: 202 min.
Tickets $15. One of the most electrifying heroes of the twentieth century receives an appropriately sweeping screen biopic, rich in both historical insight and propulsive cinematic style, courtesy of visionary director Spike Lee.
The Sea // Portland Jewish Film Festival
- Wed, Feb 25
Run Time: 93 min. Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Tickets $15. Khaled, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village, gets the chance to see the sea for the first time in his life on a school trip.
Rooted in Eastern Oregon // High Desert Tree Identification
- Thu, Feb 26
Run Time: 60 min.
Tickets $15. Come learn something new about the trees that are essential to Oregon’s high desert ecosystem.
Father Mother Sister Brother
- Fri, Feb 27
Run Time: 110 min.
Tickets $15. Jim Jarmusch's latest feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
Shin Ultraman x Brain Dead
- Sat, Feb 28
Run Time: 112 min. Language: Japanese
Tickets $15. Join Brain Dead—L.A.’s boundary-pushing creative collective—for a one-day-only special screening of the 2022 Japanese superhero film Shin Ultraman.
Among Neighbors // Portland Jewish Film Festival
- Sat, Feb 28
Run Time: 101 min. Language: English, Polish
Tickets $15. Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II.
Maintenance Artist // Portland Jewish Film Festival
- Sun, Mar 1
Run Time: 90 min. Language: English, Japanese
Tickets $15. What happens when art meets trash? Maintenance Artist profiles pioneering public artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles — the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Department of Sanitation.
Bliss (Hemda) // Portland Jewish Film Festival
- Sun, Mar 1
Run Time: 125 min. Language: Hebrew (modern)
Tickets $15. Sassi is more than 20 years older than his wife Effi and is worried about his declining powers.
NW Music Video Showcase
- Thu, Mar 5
Run Time: 150 min.
Tickets Free. PAM CUT's NW Music Video Showcase brings together over 20 music videos directed by local and Pacific NW-based directors featuring an array of incredibly talented musicians and visual styles. Kicking off the evening is the crowd pleasing musical duo Johnny Franco and his Real Brother Dom.
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
- Fri, Mar 6
Run Time: 93 min.
Tickets $15. A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
The Moment
- Sat, Mar 7
Run Time: 103 min.
Tickets $15. A sharp, semi-true pop satire inspired by Charli xcx's viral 2024 “brat summer.”
Hanami // Cascade Festival of African Films
- Sat, Mar 7
Run Time: 96 min. Language: English/ Japanese/ French/ Portuguese, Kabuverdianu/ English subtitles
Tickets FREE. On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
- Sun, Mar 8
Run Time: 324 min. Language: Russian w/ English Subtitles
Tickets $15. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union and now based in the U.S., returned to Moscow in 2021 to document the growing crackdown on independent journalism in Putin’s Russia.
The Last Waltz x Johnny Franco and his Real Brother Dom
- Thu, Mar 12
Run Time: 117 min.
Ticket $15. It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration. Martin Scorcese's documentary about The Band's farewell tour.
Six Short Films by Barbara Hammer x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Fri, Mar 13
Run Time: 85 min.
Tickets $15. With a career spanning fifty years, Barbara Hammer is recognized as a pioneer of queer cinema. Working primarily in film and video, Hammer created a groundbreaking body of experimental work that illuminates lesbian histories, women’s health and aging, and global political struggles.
Once Within a Time
- Sat, Mar 14
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. An anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music, featuring an electrifying score by Philip Glass with a performance of "Pastoral Music Reimagined," an original electro acoustic music composition feeding into audio reactive visual synthesis prior to the film.
Peaches Goes Bananas
- Sat, Mar 14
Run Time: 73 min.
Tickets $15. Discover Peaches’ electrifying concerts, her close bond with her sister and how her boundless energy, fearless exploration on and off stage has transformed every phase of her life into a captivating work of art.
Oscars Watch Party w/ Ry Bred
- Sun, Mar 15
Run Time: 240 min.
Tickets Free! Join us for an Oscars viewing party, hosted by the one-and-only Ry Bred! Watch Hollywood’s biggest night unfold on the big screen—complete with wins, snubs, speeches, surprises, and all the drama worth arguing about.
Rose Colored Moon: An Evening Tribute to Elliott Smith in Film and Music
- Thu, Mar 19
Run Time: 160 min.
Tickets $25. As part of PAM CUT's March music month, we are presenting this special event in tribute to Elliott and his legacy including two rarely screened films, music videos, and music performances.
Josie and the Pussycats
- Sat, Mar 21
Run Time: 98 min.
Tickets $15. Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style, and sound.
Undertow
- Sat, Mar 21
Run Time: 140 min. Language: Spanish
Tickets $15. An unforgettable night of film, music, and conversation as we celebrate the queer classic and this Sundance winning film. Join us as we welcome writer and director Javier Fuentes-León who will be in conversation with local composer Eric Nordin to share an inside look at their bold new musical adaptation of the film
Almost Famous Crafternoon w/ Ritual Dyes
- Sun, Mar 22
Run Time: 124 min.
Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special event co-hosted by RITUAL DYES, who will be there to offer assistance and support.
Stop Making Sense
- Sun, Mar 22
Run Time: 88 min.
Tickets $15. Why stop making sense? Why a movie? Why a big suit? Where do the odd movements come from? What will the band do next?
Party Girl x Colibri + Frances May
- Thu, Mar 26
Run Time: 94 min.
Tickets $15. Join Colibri + Frances May for a night celebrating chaotic fashion, florals, and fun. Bianca of Colibri and Pam of Frances May will introduce the film and kick off the night in advance of a special screening of Party Girl.
Wigstock: The Movie – Movie Bingo w/ Violet Hex
- Fri, Mar 27
Run Time: 95 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for another Movie Bingo, hosted by the one-and-only Violet Hex! For this edition, we'll journey into the technicolor time capsule of drag herstory that is Wigstock: The Movie!
Selena
- Sat, Mar 28
Run Time: 127 min.
Tickets $15. A biographical drama about Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.
Altered Evening: The Pander Brothers’ indie thriller ALTERED EGO & Cross-Media Works
- Sat, Mar 28
Run Time: 140 min.
Tickets: $15. Join Portland-based filmmakers, comic artists, animators, writers, and visual artists, the Pander Brothers as they present their award-winning, Portland-based feature thriller Altered Ego along with an exciting and colorful selection of their cross-media films for graphic novels, and story-driven music videos.
The Fly x Brain Dead
- Sun, Mar 29
Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1986
Tickets $15. Join Brain Dead—L.A.’s boundary-pushing creative collective—for a one-day-only special screening of the 1986 body horror and sci-fi classic The Fly.
Purple Rain
- Sun, Mar 29
Run Time: 111 min.
Tickets $15. The 1984 cult classic starring Prince and the Revolution.
Demolition Man
- Sat, Apr 4
Run Time: 115 min.
Tickets $15. Marco Brambilla’s feature debut, reflects his fascination with future worlds and cultural collision. Experience this ’90s sci-fi action classic on the big screen as a vivid expression of the dreamscapes—and nightmares—cinema can create.
24 Hour Party People
- Sat, Apr 4
Run Time: 117 min.
Tickets $15. Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
The Decline of Western Civilization
- Sun, Apr 5
Run Time: 100 min.
Tickets $15. Their message is brutally clear: Destroy the old and make way for the new. This is the punk's violent revolution, their lawless world. This is THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
- Sun, Apr 5
Run Time: 93 min.
Tickets $15. In the mid 80's a new scene took over the Los Angeles nightlife—Heavy Metal. Loud, rude, sexy, sexist and anti-authoritarian. Penelope Spheeris takes an in-depth look at rabid fans, desperate groupies, wanna-be rock stars that go so far as to threaten suicide if they don't "make it."
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
- Sun, Apr 5
Run Time: 86 min.
Tickets $15. DECLINE III is an unflinching look into the lives of the hardcore fans of punk rock in Los Angeles, 20 years later.
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
- Thu, Apr 9
Run Time: 85 min.
Tickets $15. A journey through the transformative Mad Men-era of pre-digital design production to the advent of the desktop computer. It explores the methods, tools, and evolving social roles that gave rise to the graphic design industry as we know it today.
Best in Show Movie Bingo w/ Violet Hex
- Fri, Apr 10
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a Best in Show Movie Bingo with Portland icon Violet Hex, where the mayhem of the Mayflower Dog Show meets your bingo card. The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
My Father’s Shadow
- Sat, Apr 11
Run Time: 93 min.
Tickets $15. Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
The Short Films of David Lynch
- Sun, Apr 12
Run Time: 112 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for an expanded 2K digital restorations of seven short films by David Lynch. Films include: Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995), The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), Dumbland (2002).
Eraserhead
- Sun, Apr 12
Run Time: 89 min.
Tickets $15. David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
Waiting for Guffman
- Sun, Apr 19
Run Time: 84 min.
Tickets $15. Christopher Guest’s brilliantly awkward mockumentary about small-town theater kids chasing big Broadway dreams.
Band of Outsiders x Art & About
- Thu, Apr 23
Run Time: 97 min. Language: French
Tickets $15. Join Art & About for a scavenger hunt like no other! Inspired by Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), catch a whodunit, who's got-it, where-is-it-now wild one from Breathless director Jean-Luc Godard!
Tough Shit with Oregon Humanities
- Fri, Apr 24
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Tough Shit is an onstage conversation about the most challenging questions Portlanders are facing. We’ll bring together four people with very different experiences of and perspectives on the city to talk through some shit with help from the audience and a moderator.
The Chronology of Water x Movie Book Club w/ Lidia Yuknavitch
- Sun, Apr 26
Run Time: 157 min.
Tickets $15. Welcome to Movie Book Club—for anyone who loves movies, books, or simply having opinions about both. Hosted by author Margaret Malone, each session invites you to watch a literary adaptation and then stick around for a warm, lively, and lightly irreverent post-screening conversation. Bring your thoughts, your questions, your favorite passages, and your spiciest hot takes. Our second edition of Movie Book Club features The Chronology of Water, based on the book of the same title by Lidia Yuknavitch (who will join us in person for the discussion). Film Synopsis: Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
Serial Mom Movie Bingo
- Fri, May 8
Run Time: 94 min.
Tickets $15. Bingo starlet Violet Hex will add extra chaos to John Waters’ perfectly unhinged suburban nightmare with custom Movie Bingo.