COMING SOON
Carte Blanche: Penelope Spheeris & We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll // METAL WEEKEND
- Sat, Jul 27
Run Time: 190 min.
Tickets $35. Join us for a conversation with filmmaking legend Penelope Spheeris, moderated by PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson.
After the conversation, we’re thrilled to host a rare screening of her film We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll which documents the most successful rock-concert festival tour of the 1990s: Ozzfest.
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The Iron Giant // METAL WEEKEND
- Sun, Jul 28
Run Time: 96 min.
Tickets $5. This weekend, we’re celebrating all things metal: from music to robots. Join us for a family screening of the classic film The Iron Giant, and get there early to have your portrait by the Selfie Bot! 🤘 🤖
The Iron Giant: In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
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Robot Dreams // METAL WEEKEND
- Sun, Jul 28
Run Time: 102 min. Language: Spanish
Tickets $15. This weekend, we’re celebrating all things metal: from music to robots. Join us for a screening of Robot Dreams, and get there early to have your portrait by the Selfie Bot! 🤘 🤖
Robot Dreams: DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
Confluence Filmmaker Fellows: Short Films & A Conversation
- Thu, Aug 1
Run Time: 120 min.
Tickets FREE. Seven talented Indigenous storytellers were named Confluence Filmmaker Fellows last year. Thanks to a generous grant from Oregon Film, Confluence supports Indigenous filmmakers in achieving their visions through cash awards and new film equipment, helping them take their craft to the next level. Join us for a screening of their short films followed by a moderated Q&A.
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Clue + Ethereal Reflections // GAME NIGHT
- Fri, Aug 2
Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1985
Tickets $15. A (fake) murder has occurred, and we need YOU to solve the crime! Prior to the screening of Clue, join us for a murder mystery game based on the movie & game, hosted by Emma Strgar & Lena Vasilenko of Ethereal Reflections.
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Moonrise Kingdom Presented by MUBI // CAMP PAM CUT
- Sat, Aug 3
Run Time: 109 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a PAM CUT indoor summer camp, with AC (and drinks)! Prior to the screening of Moonrise Kingdom, camp counselor Crystal Powers will teach you how to make your own custom merit badge. Crafting will run from 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Wet Hot American Summer // CAMP PAM CUT
- Sat, Aug 3
Run Time: 97 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2001
Tickets $15. Join us for a PAM CUT indoor summer camp, with AC (and drinks)! Prior to the screening of Wet Hot American Summer, camp counselor Crystal Powers will host a friendship bracelet making session. Crafting will run from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
- Sun, Aug 4
Run Time: 105 min.
Tickets $5. Catch ‘em all at this screening of Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Grab a pokéball sticker at the door if you’re open to sharing your Pokémon Go trainer code!
Local Animation Showcase + The SelfieBot
- Thu, Aug 8
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for an exciting showcase of new animated shorts from Northwest filmmakers!
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Bottoms w/ Jiu Jitsu Demo by the Traction Project
- Fri, Aug 9
Run Time: 122 min.
Tickets $15. Could anything make Bottoms even better? How about a live Jiu Jitsu Demo before the film?! Scout Tran, a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, will do a demo & short presentation to get everyone ready for this screening!
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Babes BFF BOGO // 4PM Screening
- Sat, Aug 10
Run Time: 107 min.
Tickets $15. Get ready for a Babes BFF BOGO extravaganza! Buy one ticket for yourself, get a free one for your friend! Use code BABESBFF to redeem at check out. Our neighbors, The End, will have a BFF drink special before and after the screening, and we’ll have friendship bracelets for you and your BFF!
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Babes BFF BOGO // 7PM Screening
- Sat, Aug 10
Run Time: 107 min.
Tickets $15. Get ready for a Babes BFF BOGO extravaganza! Buy one ticket for yourself, get a free one for your friend! Use code BABESBFF to redeem at check out. Our neighbors, The End, will have a BFF drink special before and after the screening, and we’ll have friendship bracelets for you and your BFF!
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Run Lola Run
- Sun, Aug 11
Run Time: 81 min. Language: German
Tickets $15. Join us for a 25th anniversary celebration of Run Lola Run, with a newly restored 4K screening of this iconic indie. A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride, Run Lola Run is the internationally acclaimed sensation about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives.
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Thelma w/ Soothe Folk Embroidery
- Sun, Aug 11
Run Time: 98 min.
Tickets $15. When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. Before the film, Soothe Folk will demonstrate live chainstitching in the lobby. Chainstitching will start at 6 p.m. and end promptly at 6:50 p.m.
Hollywoodgate
- Thu, Aug 15
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
Ask Dr. Carla
- Fri, Aug 16
Run Time: 60 min.
Tickets $25. Ready to take the leap into therapy? Great! Because you’re in need and Dr. Carla needs your money. Ask Dr. Carla is a hilarious night of improvisational drag comedy starring Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—she might not have degrees or qualifications, but she has a full bar, liability waivers, and a couch with your name on it. Joined by her enterprising receptionist Svetlana Trantastic, Carla and Svetty welcome a special celebrity client onto the couch each session so you—and they—don’t have to do all the work. This time it's Pepper Pepper, who, in their new guise as a GAYDHD Life Coach, Attention Midwife, and Creativity Consultant (certificate forthcoming) will help Dr. Carla and her guests achieve new states of optimal presence while moving past limiting beliefs. Ask Dr. Carla: it’s like a late night talk show, except it’s unlicensed therapy with unhinged drag queens.
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Queen of the Deuce w/ The Gents of Chaos
- Sat, Aug 17
Run Time: 108 min.
Tickets $15. The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Before the film the Gents of Chaos will play some retro-groove musical morsels.
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Pulp Fiction w/ The Gents of Chaos // Presented by MUBI
- Sat, Aug 17
Run Time: 184 min.
Tickets $15. Pulp Fiction turns 30 this year! Before this anniversary screening, the Gents of Chaos will play some retro-groove surf rock tunes. Come dance like Mrs. Mia Wallace! Jules Winnfield (Samuel L Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hitmen out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating motion picture adventure that both thrills and amuses.
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The NeverEnding Story w/ Reading Party // Hosted by Books With Pictures
- Sun, Aug 18
Run Time: 94 min.
Tickets $5. While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
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Fogtown Grand Showcase
- Thu, Aug 22
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Bring the whole family and enjoy the riotously funny puppet-driven take on the world's most famous supersleuth. Be the first to see this long-in-development TV pilot before the rest of the world, and you'll also get to partake in a lively, audience-participation driven Fogtown videogame, where YOU make the choices that our determined detectives take on the big screen! Fans of The Muppets and Wallace & Gromit are sure to be entertained by the handcrafted hijinks permeating every frame.
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Friday the 13th Part III 3D BINGO w/ Violet Hex
- Fri, Aug 23
Run Time: 95 min.
Tickets $15. Adult summer camp continues, this time at Crystal Lake, in 3D! We’ll provide the anaglyph 3D glasses at the door. Get ready for a spooky bingo night with Violet Hex!
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Cuckoo // Hosted by Hannah May Cumming
- Sat, Aug 24
Run Time: 113 min.
Tickets $15. CUCKOO: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On // A24 Joy Ride w/ Bike Summer
- Sat, Aug 24
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $10-15 (sliding scale). August 24 is A24 Day! Dress up as your favorite A24 character, and kick off the evening with a screening of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. After the film, Bike Summer will host an A24 Joy Ride! Costumes encouraged for both the screening and the ride.
Slow
- Sun, Aug 25
Run Time: 108 min. Language: Lithuanian
Tickets $15. Contemporary dancer Elena meets Dovydas when he is assigned to interpret via sign language in a class she is teaching to deaf youth. Their connection is immediate, kinetic, and frictionless. As they gravitate toward each other, resisting the forces and interventions of their separate daily lives, their bond deepens from platonic to romantic.
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Rosemary’s Baby w/ Trivia
- Sun, Aug 25
Run Time: 183 min.
Tickets $15. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.
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Bhaji on the Beach // PRESENTED BY DJ ANJALI
- Thu, Aug 29
Run Time: 100 min.
Tickets $15. DJ Anjali presents a screening of Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham)’s debut film, Bhaji on the Beach! Prior to the screening, Anjali will spin a retro 80's & 90's UK Desi set. Come dance!
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Crossroads w/ Britney Spears Karaoke!
- Fri, Aug 30
Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2002
Tickets $15. After eight years apart, three childhood friends - Lucy, Kit, and Mimi - rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi's handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts' desires.
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Whip It // 15 Year Anniversary Screening
- Sat, Aug 31
Run Time: 131 min.
$15. Bliss Cavendar lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother's world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby. Bliss finds friendship and freedom with her teammates, but a conflict between a championship game and the Bluebonnet beauty pageant threatens to spill her secret.
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Magic Mike XXL w/ Magic Mojo Dancers
- Sat, Aug 31
Run Time: 145 min.
Tickets $25. Prior to the screening of Magic Mike XXL, Portland’s own queer male dance group Magic Mojo will serve a steamy (but PG-13) dance routine. Magic Mojo debuted during the 2024 Portland Pride at Stag PDX. MAGIC MIKE XXL: Three years after leaving the stage, Mike reunites with his old crew, the Kings of Tampa, as they hit the road for one last steamy dance at a stripper convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in unexpected ways.
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The Muppet Movie w/ Snarlskin
- Sun, Sep 1
Run Time: 97 min.
Tickets $5. Do you love puppets?! Not only can you see your love of puppets on screen, but you can buy some of Snarlskin’s original puppets in the lobby prior to the screening! The Muppet Movie: See how their meteoric rise to fame and fortune began: with a rainbow, a song, and a Frog. After a fateful meeting with a big-time talent agent, Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood dreaming of showbiz. Along the way, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo, and the dazzling Miss Piggy join him in hopes of becoming film stars too. But all bets are off when Kermit falls into the clutches of Doc Hopper (Charles Durning), a fast-food mogul seeking to promote his French-fried frog-leg franchise!
Confessions of a Good Samaritan // Q&A w/ Director Penny Lane
- Sun, Sep 29
Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2023
Tickets $15. Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. Confessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?