Tickets $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.
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Tickets $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.
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Join 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.
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Tickets $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.
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Tickets $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 More[ PAST EVENT ] Desperately Seeking Susan MADONNA DRESS UP NIGHT // SOCIAL CINEMA
Posted 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.
Tickets $15. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairy tale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. Get there early to make your own flower crown before the screening!
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Tickets $15. Join us after to the film for a moderated conversation between I Saw the TV Glow Director Jane Schoenbrun and PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson. Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show—a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. AV Club writes that the second feature from director Schoenbrun (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair) is “a remarkable portrait of pop-culture obsession—how it can unite us, change us, and ripple down through our entire lives in ways both uplifting and unsettling.”
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] ART HOUSE CINEMA // Showing Up & A Conversation with Cynthia Lahti
Posted on February 13, 2024
Tickets $15. Following the screening of Showing Up, sculptor and visual artist Cynthia Lahti will be in conversation about her work with Grace Kook-Anderson, Arlene & Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum. Cynthia’s drawings and sculptures are featured in the film Showing Up, moonlighting as fictional character Lizzy (Michelle Williams)’s artwork.
Read MoreUNORTHODOX //[ PAST EVENT ] Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan // Featuring an Intro by Robert Ham
Posted on February 13, 2024
Tickets $15. This St. Patrick’s Day we celebrate the legacy of two powerful Irish musicians: Sinéad O’Connor & Shane MacGowan (of The Pogues). Grab a whiskey from the bar and (metaphorically) pour one out for these two trailblazers. Local Portland arts and culture journalist Robert Ham will introduce both shows with his knowledge of the artists and their work.
CROCK OF GOLD: Filmmaker Julien Temple dives deep into the life of Shane MacGowan, the tortured vocalist best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock.
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