Posted on April 1, 2024
Tickets $15. Step into an alternate reality where emotional pain is personified: human hearts are held outside of the body. Take home your own anatomically correct or artistically inspired heart, with a painting craft session before the film.
Read MoreTickets $15. Honor the legacy of pioneering civil rights activist Malcom X on his birthday with a screening of Spike Lee’s masterful epic. Portland poet Emmett Wheatfall will do a poetry reading before the film.
Read MoreTickets $15. “No wire hangers!” celebrate Mother’s Day with a screening of this often unhinged and highly quotable camp classic. Hosted by Portland’s fabulous Donatella Nobody, get ready to clutch your pearls and pay homage to the ultimate portrayal of maternal complexity. Outrageous and controversial, this is the story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment was manifested in her relationships with her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) and Christopher (Xander Berkeley). The public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly. The rage, the debilitating strain, and the terrifying descent into alcoholism and child abuse are graphically—and unforgettably—depicted in this film, based upon Christina Crawford’s best-selling book.
Read MoreTickets $15. Join us for a heartwarming Mother’s Day celebration with a special screening of Steel Magnolias. This iconic film beautifully captures the resilience, strength, and boundless love that mothers embody every day. Bring your loved ones for this celebration of the remarkable moms in our lives. Six icons of the silver screen—Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts—come together as bosom buddies in this heartwarming story of life, love, and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton Latcherie (Julia Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M’Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.
Read MoreTickets $15. Grab a can of pineapple juice and crank up Faye Wong’s cover of “Dreams”—we’re celebrating 30 years of the Wong Kar-wai masterpiece Chungking Express. A touching study of love, connection and heartbreak, the film’s emotional power feels just as raw today as its 1994 release. Portland band The Fourth Wall will play a set inspired by the film.
Read MoreTickets $15. Celebrate women directors’ contributions to horror with a screening of the nearly-lost-to-time film Hollywood 90028. Christina Hornisher’s sole feature film was given new life with a 4K restoration by Grindhouse Releasing in 2023. Local character makeup artist Christina Kortum will give a crash course in horror makeup before the film.
Read MoreJoin us for a fully immersive screening of the unforgettable musical. Wear your best feline costume for the Jellicle Ball, featuring T.S. Eliot poetry readings, sing-a-long challenges and a theater-wide initiation to the Heaviside Layer.
Read MoreTickets $15. Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD examines one woman’s quest for love and meaning in the modern world.
Read MoreTickets $15. Finally making its way to the USA after the film’s TIFF premiere, I Like Movies transports us to the world of a movie-loving teenager working at a Canadian video rental store in the early 2000s. In Burlington, Ontario, in 2003, hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In order to raise the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at the local video store, Sequels. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence begins alienating the most important people in his life—his best friend Matt Macarchuck (Percy Hynes White), his single mother Terri (Krista Bridges)—all while developing a complicated friendship with his older female manager, Alana (Romina D’Ugo). As graduation looms ever closer, a series of painful realizations force Lawrence to realize that he is a pretentious asshole.
Read MorePosted on March 6, 2024
Tickets $15. Madonna Dress Up Night!
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN: Take a wild ride through the bustling streets of 1980s New York City as Roberta (Rosanna Arquette), a bored suburban housewife, becomes enamored with the mysterious Susan (Madonna) via the personals section of the newspaper. When an ad titled “Desperately Seeking Susan” hints at a rendezvous, Roberta eagerly follows the trail, plunging headfirst into a whirlwind of mistaken identities and unexpected adventures.
