Tickets $15. Featuring pre-show comedy set prior to the film. Say you saw it first! This crowd-funded feature premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, before being pulled from subsequent planned screenings due to “rights issues.” Featuring director Vera Drew as a law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity, forming a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend, and finding herself battling a fascistic caped crusader, the film unofficially parodies characters from the Batman comics. The People’s Joker features a supporting cast of comedy legends, including Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, and Bob Odenkirk.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] Josie and the Pussycats with The Red Strings // NIGHT OF 1,000…PARKER POSEYS
Posted on April 3, 2024
Tickets $15. Join us for a purr-fect evening featuring live music as we rocket back to the early 2000s with Josie and The Pussycats. In one of Parker Posey’s lesser-known but incredibly iconic roles, she shines as the conniving and hilariously over-the-top villain Fiona. Break out the jelly shoes and get ready to dance, local band The Red Strings will perform a short set before the screening
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All with Anna Diem // NOW. HEAR. THIS.
Posted on April 3, 2024
Tickets $15. The Indigo Girls have been producing game-changing queer folk-rock for the past 40 years. Celebrate the outstanding legacy of the band and the women behind it with this exciting new documentary. Local songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anna Diem will perform an acoustic set of originals and Indigo Girls songs before the film. With four decades of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, “the Indigo Girls saved my life.” Still, Amy and Emily battled misogyny, homophobia, and a harsh cultural climate chastising them for not fitting into a female pop star mold. With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day vérité.
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Tickets $15. Sometimes the best cure for sadness is a good laugh. Remember the comedy genius and wicked talent of beloved actor Gene Wilder with this new documentary. Portland comedienne Clancy Kramer will introduce the film with a short comedy set.
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TICKETS 9 p.m. tickets available HERE. 6:30 p.m. screening Sold Out. THE EXPERIENCE & FILM The Portland Premiere…
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] The Cat and the Canary // Silent Film w/ Live Score by Corey J. Brewer
Posted on April 1, 2024
Tickets $25. Seattle-based musician Corey J. Brewer (who performed The Shining Forwards and Backwards at the Tomorrow in December) is back with a new live score performed over the 1927 silent horror comedy film The Cat and the Canary. Regarded as one of the most important and influential films in the early history of American genre cinema, The Cat and the Canary perfected the ‘old dark house’ formula and set the stage for the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s.
Read More[ PAST EVENT ] With Love and a Major Organ + Heart-Shaped Arts & Crafts // CRAFTERNOON
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.
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Tickets $15. Join us for a monstrously marvelous evening as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Young Frankenstein! Dust off your lab coats, grab your Igor-inspired hump, and get ready to electrify your funny bone. Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder are at the top of their comedic game in this tale of the madcap antics of Dr. Frankenstein and his hilariously dysfunctional entourage. Portland comedianne Clancy Kramer will channel that energy into a short comedy set before the film.
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Tickets $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.
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In honor of Earth Day, join us for a joyful celebration of the beautiful planet we inhabit. From curious creatures to phenomenal flora, learn more about our natural surroundings through film, art and new media. Portland creative and environmental collective Making Earth Cool will take the stage, in full costume, to introduce the first episode of their newly revamped Earth News. A screening of Fantastic Fungi will follow, depicting the magical world of mushrooms.
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