Tickets $15. Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement. This unconventional film about a highly unconventional band incorporates a stage musical, rock biopic, gallery exhibition, archival footage, and contemporary observational footage to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music. Anchored by Pavement’s slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features performances by Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper and Zoe Lister-Jones, and editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession).
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Tickets $15. Catch: It’s All Gonna Break – a documentary that unearths intimate behind-the-scenes footage showing the creation of Canada’s indie-darlings of the early aughts, Broken Social Scene.
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Tickets $15. An Iranian-American transman, Ahmad, searching for his place in history, finds more than a just link to the past in the archives. Drawing from first-person accounts, as well as fictionalized segments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam explores the lines of desire as they intersect with identity for many transmen.
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Tickets $15. Tonight we celebrate the Portland premiere of director G. Chesler’s thoughtful documentary Connection | Isolation about the experiences of trans people during the COVID -19 pandemic. Following the film, director G. Chesler will join editor Eli Haan in a discussion about the film.
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Tickets $15. The Portland premiere of director Chad Brown’s latest feature film, Mother, Sisterhood in the Wild, an engrossing feature documentary captures the experiences of five BIPOC women on an expedition into the Arctic Circle Wildlife National Refuge.
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Tickets $15. Short EXPERIENCE description. Mile-high hair. Synthesized sounds. Teenage rebellion. Elizabeth Ai was on a mission to excavate an untold story of rebellious punks in the chaotic world of 80s Vietnamese New Wave until she uncovers a hidden past.
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Tickets $15. Join us for a special Mother’s Day edition of Self-Care Sunday, with our friends from woo-woo!
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Tickets $15. Through never-before-seen footage and intimate recollections, filmmaker Alex Braverman explores comedian Andy Kaufman’s brief but impactful life and career.
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Tickets $15. Thomas Kinkade’s pastoral landscapes made him the most collected and despised painter of all time. After his shocking death, his family discovers a vault of unseen paintings that reveal a complex artist whose life and work embody our divided America.
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Tickets $15. Join us for a rare theatrical screening of this important, Oscar-winning film.
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