Upcoming Events

50th Birthday Fundraiser for Death Talk Goes to the Movies

Help support the valuable community resource, the Clinton Street Theater, and our monthly movie series, Death Talk Goes to the Movies.

The Clinton Street Theater opens its doors to so many community groups, and is now in the third year of hosting the Death Talk monthly movie night. While the Death Talk films and discussion always get rave reviews, the donations at the door don't cover the theater’s booking costs.

To offset the expense of the series, one of our devoted volunteers is dedicating his 50th birthday party to raising money for our movie night. If it looks like your idea of a good time, come down on to the theater on Saturday night, June 24, at 7pm. Thank you for your support!

The Be It Yourself nights, while fully audience directed, are designed to be more family friendly and for those eager to have their first Rocky experience. Watch a cool little video about BIY Nights HERE.

 

When a runaway is enslaved and forced to work in the Yukon, he must liberate himself from male oppressors by transforming into a W I L D B O Y.

Post screening Q&A with Filmmaker, Steven Riddle!

Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for. Fame sings the body electric, celebrating the growing-up process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, living life.Tonight's nonprofit recipient is Outside the Frame, which was founded with the idea of helping homeless youth value themselves as productive members of society. OTF partners with excellent social service organizations to provide a much-needed creative outlet, technological training, and a sense of success that is contagious and visible to the public.

To thrive, young people need more than their basic needs met, and OTF offers a model educational and vocational program, where young people create films about issues that matter to them and share them with the public.

Program graduates have gone on to complete their GED, enroll in college, actively pursue employment and independent living, and make movies.

The Clinton has been showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show weekly since 1978, making it one of the longest running movies in the world! Come on down and join us any Saturday night at midnight (doors open at 11:30pm).

"I first saw Rocky Horror when I was 9 years old, and it blew my mind and changed my life. I made my mom take me and my 6 year old sister to see it in West Hollywood, bless her heart. They called all the virgins on stage, so we went. "Do you want to get me arrested, kid? Sit back down." As a freshman at Reed, I took my dorm mates to see it for their first time. So glad for your uninterrupted commitment to educating today's youth." Nili Yosha

Come join Ollie for a night of honest entertainment, in the 4th installment of My Americana. Performed every two years since 2011, My Americana is an experimental performance piece with a single stage performer accompanied with a live musician and overhead projections. Each time the show is performed, there are additional stories and content, and featuring a new musician.

My Americana is the story of life in Portland, OR. Baseball. TV. Sleep. Dreams. Death. Pancakes. Money. Happiness. Drugs. The American Dream. Florida. Running.

Written and directed by Ollie Collins

Doors at 7pm; curtain at 8.

In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own.

This is an historic BYOD (Bring Your Own Dog!) event, and the Clinton Street Theater gladly welcomes well-mannered dogs into the theater with their people to share the experience. People without dogs will also be welcome.

We will be donating 100% of every dog ticket to the Oregon Humane Society, which rescues, heals and adopts more than 11,000 pets each year.

Films include:

HARVEY & HARMONY (1:00) is indescribable!

989 MILES HOME (15:00) Laurence Alexander's student film depicting discarded dogs in South Carolina being transported by volunteers to welcoming adoptive homes in the Northeast

GAME OF BONES (10:30) Director Blaire Dobiecki (Melbourne, Australia) re-imagines the popular television series with a similar name, starring her own rescued Lab, Helen, as the heroine

CONVERSATION WITH MY DOGS (3:00) Humorist Merrill Markoe questions why her dogs follow her everywhere

DAVID & GOLIATH (12:00) Director George Zaverdas based his period film on a true story of a Jewish resistance fighter fleeing from the Nazis, who takes refuge in a dog house where the German shepherd saves his life

Le Sauvetage 2LE SAUVETAGE (6:00) Peter Mcevilley's faux-French tale of how dogs view us and bring us together – promoting adoption with the rescued performing Olate dogs. (in French with subtitles)

USEFUL DOG TRICKS (4:00) Heather Brook's Terrier Jesse embodies “multi-tasking”

A BOY AND HIS DOG (9:30) Jonna Mciver 's documentary features Owen - a very little boy - whose family adopts Haatchi - a very big dog - and how they make each other whole.

This is an historic BYOD (Bring Your Own Dog!) event, and the Clinton Street Theater gladly welcomes well-mannered dogs into the theater with their people to share the experience. People without dogs will also be welcome.

We will be donating 100% of every dog ticket to the Oregon Humane Society, which rescues, heals and adopts more than 11,000 pets each year.

HARVEY DOGS HOME (1:00) indescribably delightful

FOG OF COURAGE (7:30) John R. Dilworth (an Academy Award nominee) made this animated horror/comedy about a cowardly dog named Courage

LOOKING FOR LOVE (3:00) Australian director Blaire Dobiecki stars her rescued black Lab, Helen, in a cautionary tale about looking for love online

THE LEWIS LECTURES (7:30) Merrill Markoe's animated depiction of what dogs actually think and do when we leave the house

DOG YEARS (4:00) Director Sam Hearn's voice-over of a dog who questions his relationship with his frequently absent owner

VALENTINA (9:30) Spanish directors Crespo and Romera's tale of an estranged couple and their Pug Valentina, who brings them back together. (in Spanish, sub-titled)

THE POODLE TRAINER (8:00) Vance Malone's character study of a circus trainer, whose performing poodles are the center of her universe (in Russian, sub-titled)

DINE IN THE DARK (:30) Jake Shannon, an Australian student, made this PSA for Guide Dogs for the Blind to create empathy for living with vision-impairment

SECOND CHANCES (20:00) Director Steven Latham's film about female prisoners who train dogs from shelters, changing lives on both ends of the leash

PETCO ADOPTION STORY (3:00) with roller blader Bonnie Thunder.

Julie Orlick, an avant-garde 16mm film maker and alternative photographer currently existing in Brooklyn, NY (born and raised in Los Angeles) has been directing and shooting her own 16mm films since 2014. She is now touring the country with her latest collection of nine shorts. She is bringing her own 16mm projector and the screening includes the Portland premiere of her newest film, "Silent Lovers"; color 16mm, 10min, starring Queen Bettie and her Submissive Mime.