Special Events and Series
20th Anniversary Celebration Series
Join us throughout 2024 as we show some of our favorite films celebrating significant anniversaries this year, in celebration of our own significant anniversary: 20 years as a volunteer-operated nonprofit cinema!
Bruceploitation Bonanza!
Featuring the new documentary, ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE, along with restorations of three gems of the Bruceploitation subgenre. Presented by Kung Fu Clubhouse.
MASKING RULES & GUIDELINES
- Masks remain required for weekend screenings before 6pm and for select special event screenings as noted.
- Masks are encouraged for all other screenings, but not required.
- Why are we doing this?
Our aim is to make seeing movies here safe and comfortable for everyone. In addition, the cinema is operated 100% by volunteers and we are trying to keep them healthy!
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Coming Soon
The Crazies (with Romero scholar Adam Hart)
- Sunday, May 5, 2024, 7:00pm
Join us as we welcome horror historian, former Northwest Film Forum Publicity Director, and now published Romero researcher Adam Hart for a special screening of George A. Romero's THE CRAZIES.
When a military plane crashes in Evans City, Pennsylvania, a mysterious toxin seeps into the water supply, turning the small-town residents into big-time killers. The biological weapon, codenamed "Trixie," leaves its victims either dead or psychologically deranged. Vietnam vet David and his pregnant girlfriend Judy must escape the military-enforced quarantine, the crazed townsfolk and a band of rednecks to get to safety. Five years after NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, George A. Romero crafted another powerful allegory about government cover-ups and conspiracies in the shadow of Watergate and several high-profile environmental disasters.
Adam Hart will provide a brief intro before the film and a Q&A after. You will also be able to check out his new book Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero and hang out and chat about all things Romero following the presentation. (Mr. Hart will also be at the Northwest Film Forum the night before for a screening of CREEPSHOW.)
“Essentially a dry-run for his masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, George Romero’s The Crazies shows the same horrified nihilism and superb filmmaking skills that he seemed to have to burn in the ’70s.” Empire
Uncropped (with Tricia Romano)
- Monday, May 6, 2024, 7:00pm
Featuring an in-person Q&A with Tricia Romano, former editor-in-chief of The Stranger and author of the new book The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.
Alfred Hitchcock. Muhammad Ali. Meryl Streep. LL Cool J. George A. Romero. From cultural icons to powerful news stories, James Hamilton captured it all. In UNCROPPED, the legendary Village Voice photojournalist and many of his notable collaborators recount the stories behind unforgettable images taken over the course of a forty year career. A stunning visual chronicle of New York City and a window into the heyday of alternative print media. Executive produced by Wes Anderson.
“As it hits Hamilton’s Village Voice years, the documentary is locked into a story that’s more fascinating than a mere biography, or at least the biography of one man.” Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter
Dawn of the Dead
- Friday, May 10, 2024, 6:15pm
- Friday, May 10, 2024, 9:00pm
- Saturday, May 11, 2024, 5:30pm
- Saturday, May 11, 2024, 8:15pm
- Sunday, May 12, 2024, 4:15pm
- Sunday, May 12, 2024, 7:00pm
A restoration of George A. Romero's masterpiece for the 45th anniversary of its North American premiere!
As hordes of zombies swarm over the U.S., the terrified populace tries everything in their power to escape the attack of the undead. In Pennsylvania, radio station employee Stephen (David Emge) and his girlfriend Francine (Gaylen Ross) escape in the station helicopter, accompanied by two renegade SWAT members (Ken Foree and Scott H. Reiniger). The group retreats to the haven of an enclosed shopping mall to make what could be humanity's last stand. Featuring groundbreaking special effects by Tom Savini and music by Goblin.
Part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration Series!
Please note: Per the booking agreement with the distributor, free admission and guest passes aren’t accepted for these screenings.
“Undoubtedly the zombie movie to end ’em all.” David Pirie, Time Out
“One of the best horror films ever made.” Roger Ebert
“As a blend of horror, action, tension, and humour, it stands in a class of its own.” Almar Haflidason, BBC
Coma
- Friday, May 17, 2024, 6:30pm
- Saturday, May 18, 2024, 4:00pm
- Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8:30pm
- Sunday, May 19, 2024, 4:30pm
Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.
From French master Bertrand Bonello (THE BEAST, NOCTURAMA), COMA is “a neo-Lynchian slow burn masterpiece” (International Cinephile Society) that creates a dream-like representation of our present. A “delirious marvel” (The Playlist) that breaks apart boundaries of genre, filmmaking, and storytelling, COMA bravely confronts the anxieties of today in order to imagine the possibilities of the future.
In French with English subtitles.
More showtimes to come.
“[An] attention-deficit delight.” Charles Bramesco, Little White Lies
Gasoline Rainbow
- Friday, May 17, 2024, 8:30pm
- Saturday, May 18, 2024, 6:00pm
- Sunday, May 19, 2024, 2:00pm
- Sunday, May 19, 2024, 7:00pm
- Monday, May 20, 2024, 7:15pm
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 7:15pm
Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS and CONTEMPORARY COLOR) turn their pioneering hybrid lens to the cinematic road trip with GASOLINE RAINBOW. Undoubtedly candid yet deeply loving, this is an expansive portrait of the new generation as told in their own words.
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. The plan, in full: “F*** it.” Through desert wilderness, industrial backwaters, and city streets, they connect with outsiders on the fringes and discover their lives will be determined by the trails they blaze themselves. These are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future — and The Party at the End of the World.
A SXSW and Venice Film Festival selection, GASOLINE RAINBOW is a mesmerizing ride depicting a wild and true coming-of-age. With a beating heart and an exuberant spirit, this rhapsodic look at today’s American West reminds us of the timeless joys of community.
The 7pm showing on Sunday, May 19th will feature a live, in-person Q&A with filmmakers the Ross brothers!
“The Ross brothers are organic, brilliant filmmakers, people who know how to capture their subjects without getting in their way.” Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
“Gasoline Rainbow is a joyous movie for everyone who’s ever sought community and found it waiting for them where they least expect it.” Alissa Wilkinson, Vox