Upcoming Events

Join KBOO and Ko-Falen Cultural Center for an extraordinary documentary of Mali’s musicians, THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST, as they fight for their right to sing.

Doors open at 6:30pm. Listen to the Desert Sounds of Mali musicians while you peruse Malian Arts & Crafts and mine information on Ko-Falen Cultural Center—a nonprofit doing work in Mali and the US.

The documentary film is preceded by a Ko-Falen short film entitled: Spinners of Stories: Women Storytellers of Baroueli (bar-oo-WALL-ee).

A Q&A with Malians Baba Wague Diakite and Ibrahim Kelly will follow the film.

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).

Ticket price includes service fee.

"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

An exercise in Maximalism & Drag (VOL. 4)

Come early to meet Dan Kamin and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and a drink.

Then stay for an entertaining and informative presentation illustrated with rare and fascinating images, music and pristine restored film from the period, including Chaplin’s blockbuster war comedy Shoulder Arms, released while World War One was still raging. Don’t miss this excursion into the public and private worlds of the comic legend whose films still make audiences roar with laughter.

Reserved Seating.

Meet the iconic Tramp character who conquered the world with his comic antics. Charlie Chaplin was the first truly global superstar, drawing crowds in the tens of thousands wherever he traveled. This entertaining and informative presentation will be illustrated with rare and fascinating images, music and pristine restored film from the period, including Chaplin’s blockbuster war comedy Shoulder Arms, released while World War One was still raging. Don’t miss this excursion into the public and private worlds of the comic legend whose films still make audiences roar with laughter.

Produced at NW Documentary and presented as part of The Portland Circuit, a unique partnership between the Northwest Film Center, Oregon Film, Cinema21, Clinton Street Theater and The Hollywood Theatre.

Every tree has a story. They tell the stories of families, of neighborhoods, of transformations long forgotten. Tree stories are community stories.

Canopy Stories is NW Documentary’s first anthology film project featuring 12 stories made by 11 Portland filmmakers. Each film focuses on a specific tree to tell a story.

The stories range from activists camping in trees to strangers caring for the ghosts of pioneers, from globe trekking botanists in search of rare specimens to everyday citizens transforming their neighborhood into an urban oasis.

The stories of our urban forest are the stories of our city. A single tree can offer a perspective outside our own. These living, breathing beings stand a silent vigil as decades and even centuries pass. Once you know the stories of the trees you will never see the city in the same way.

This documentary will be presented in two parts over four nights, all screenings start at 7pm.

Part 1 - 85 mins

Hollywood Theatre, July 8th & Cinema21, July 10th

Part 2 - 98 mins

Clinton Street Theater, July 9th & Northwest Film Center at the Whitsell Auditorium July 11th

Each screening will be followed with a themed discussion and Q&A with local environmental and community groups.

In our Monthly Film Series, we show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. All films are with English subtitles.

This month--SUGARBABY!

A little overweight, not as young as she was, employed as a funeral attendant – her life passes by monotonously. One day, however, the voice of a subway driver strikes her like a bolt of lightning. She does everything she can to get to know the man of her dreams. She takes time off to investigate the duty roster and the life of her ‘sugar baby’, buying herself pumps and lingerie. Once she’s finally lured the young man into her net, an unusual romance begins… Immersed in bright, primary colors by camerawoman Johanna Heer, the film is brought to life not least by its leading actors, the fascinating Marianne Sägebrecht and the absurdly naïve Eisi Gulp.

Cast: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger, Manuela Denz

In the heat of July, hear the cowboy’s loving cry,
The nights are too brief, but he’ll makes the ladies sigh,
And the ladies in the daylight’s shine might give a wink of the eye,
Or pull up a skirt to show some thigh,
The cowboys always find their way back home to the Soiled Dove Saloon,
Where the cowboy’s and working girls are sure to find and give their boon.

This July Bend Burlesque Company returns to the Clinton Street Theater bringing their electric, sexy and hilariously naughty new Western themed theater and burlesque fusion that you don’t want to miss!

Inspired by both vintage vaudevillian cabaret and modern pop culture, Bend Burlesque Company performers, who all hail from Central Oregon, deliver an array of high-energy neo and old west exploits. The show features artistic and scantily clad dances, hilarious and off-color comedic skits, acrobatics, and a plethora of other stimulating routines.

At this show the performers are backed by DJ Buddy Cooper, who has been with the troupe for 2 years, and has some serious spinning skills!

Join us for a night of sensual celebration, as we celebrate the longs nights of our deliciously Salacious Summer… Cowboy style! All humans over the age of 18 are encouraged to attend!

Doors at 7pm.

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.

Beer, wine and hard cider available for those 21 and over. Prop bags for sale - preshow with virgin games and MC Nathan!!!

Partially shot in front of the 2017 Hawaii island “lava hose,” Stoke tells a different kind of story about tourism on Hawaii island, which draws visitors from all around the world who hope to be moved by the presence of the Kilauea volcano.

Prepare for a wild night of entertainment as Doctor Jack's Old-Timey Medicine Show takes your eyes, ears and tongues on an adventure of the most pleasurable sort!

Enjoy mind-boggling magic, heart-stopping sideshow, and gut-busting comedy from our managerie of talented performers. It is sure to be a night to remember!

In our Monthly Film Series, we show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. All films are with English subtitles.

An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.

Germany 2011, 113 min.
Director: Sebastian Grobler
Cast: Daniel Brühl (Konrad Koch), Burghart Klaußner (Schuldirektor Gustav Merfeld), Kathrin von Steinburg (Klara Bornstedt), Justus von Dohnányi (Richard Hartung)

“Apocalypse Now Final Cut,” which made its world premiere at Tribeca before a theatrical and home-video release set for later this year, is the third version of the film Coppola has made, if you don’t count the work-in-progress version that screened at Cannes. Scared about its reception, he cut the original to 153 minutes, making it “less weird” as he did. In 2001, he restored many of the things he’d cut and came up with “Apocalypse Now Redux,” a grandiose 202-minute version.

And now, at 183 minutes, “Final Cut” splits the difference between the version Coppola said he thinks is too short and not weird enough, and the one he now thinks is overstuffed.

Zeroville is about Hollywood's upheaval in the 1970s.

Zeroville is based on the novel by Steve Erickson, written by Paul Felton and Ian Olds, and produced by James Franco, and Vince Jolivette, and Michael Mendelsohn.

Germany | 2017 | 90:00 min

Director Charly Hübner, Sebastian Schultz

Festivals/Awards

2017
Seal of Approval ’highly recommended’
DOK Leipzig – Worldpremiere and four times awarded:
– DEFA Förderpreis
– Dokumentarfilmpreis des Goethe-Instituts
– ver.di Preis für Solidarität, Menschlichkeit und Fairness
– Gedanken-Aufschluss Preis

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck

Special THANK YOU to the Goethe Institute and WUNDERBAR TOGETHER!

Got grandkids or other young family members? Want to spend some quality time with them? Give them a treat they'll never forget--The Amazing Bubble Man!

"Greatest bubble show on Earth." - SFGate.com

If you are new to Portland (and even if you aren't) come experience a PORTLAND CHRISTMAS TRADITION--the Clinton Street Theater's "12th"* annual Christmas screening of THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

COME COMFORTABLE. COME IN YOUR ROBE AND PAJAMAS.

Screening every night at 7:30pm from December 20th through December 26th.

Serving the Clinton's own blend of RICE RUSSIANS. Believe me, you're gonna want some.

35mm Print!!

"The Big Lebowski is a mess. But what a glorious, wonderfully-entertaining mess it is." --James Berardinelli

*We've been running this far longer than 12 years, but having lost count, I use 12 because it's my favorite number.