Upcoming Events

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!!!

Seven Samurai is an unforgettable masterpiece -- the work of one of the world's greatest filmmakers at the height of his powers.

Sven, who is both deaf and blind, has decided to travel the 800km-long Way of St. James with the help of his assistants. He wants to prove himself to everyone, but Sven quickly succumbs to his physical and psychological limits. A bitter struggle for power, control and self-determination begins ...

Do we have stories for you!

The seventh annual Sarah Hauser Festival of Stories concludes the most successful season in the Portland Storytellers Guild’s 34-year history when 20 storytellers perform over two evenings Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 at the Clinton Street Theater.

Pre-purchased nightly tickets are $12 ($15 at the door) with a special two-day festival pass for $15. Doors open at 7 for pre-show entertainment each evening and the stories start to flow at 7:30.

Friday evening, emcee Eric Foxman presents eight of the Guild’s most popular performers – Barb Fankhauser, Edward Hershey, Pam Maben, Gretchen Peterson, Holly Robison, Franz van der Horst and the team of Norm Brecke and Anne Rutherford.

Saturday in Storython ‘19 the Guild previews its 2019-20 season with host Holly Robison introducing a dozen — count ‘em, 12 — performers, Jeanne Anderson, Mike Devenney, Patrick Gannon, Mike Goss, Wink Harner, Ken Iverson, Kitty Kaping, Simon Morgaine Anne Penfound, Juliana Person, Fiona Rickford, John Wylders who will each tell a five-minute story.

The festival was initiated in 2013 at the behest of Sarah Hauser, a revered Guild president, and named in her memory after she died in 2015.

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

La La Land captures the nostalgic joy of old Hollywood while infusing it with a generous helping of the new.

Allen Adams, The Maine Edge

Tonight's nonprofit partner is The Living Room, which provides a safe haven for GLBTQQ Youth ages 14-20 in Clackamas County.

At The Living Room, all youth experience a safe place to be themselves, to be supported, and to be comfortable and accepted in their own skin. The Living Room provides support to GLBTQQ youth in Clackamas County through Drop In Activities, Events, School Support, and Community Education.

Documentary "A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM," narrated by Laverne Cox with music by Melissa Etheridge, is a loving journey toward freedom, focusing on major events and watershed moments throughout LGBTQ history through never-before-seen archival footage and engaging interviews, including Cleve Jones, Caitlyn Jenner, Gloria Allred, Gavin Newsom, Don Lemon, Dustin Lance Black, Margaret Cho, Armistead Maupin, and many more.

In the Fire 10MPF you'll experience human's first pre-historic spark, an urgent 911 call that goes terribly wrong, a seemingly innocent landlady interviewing potential tenants, a couple fighting while trying to evacuate a wildfire, the dark backstory of a man facing a firing squad, the love between a moth and a lamp, a fire station that doesn't take life too seriously, and what it takes for a demon to get ahead in corporate America.

Of all Van Sant's movies, Mala Noche is the rawest, most personal, and least freighted. It's the one fans should see for the simplest inkling into Van Sant's complex artistic roots.

Germany's infamous Paragraph 175, which had made sexual acts between men a criminal offence since 1872, was only officially repealed in 1994. However, since the 1960s - with West Berlin being the only place were men could at least dance with other men - there had been public locales there, which became a refuge for young gay men from the Federal Republic. Using hitherto unpublished and often provocative archive material, and with support from many contemporary witnesses, Jochen Hick in this documentary film is researching the historical development of the gay scene from its antecedents until today.

Join us for our spring #OSIFF Pop-Up, bringing you short and feature-length films from around the world!

SHORTS I: Contemplation [9 films, 112 minutes]

I Love What You Said To Me (USA, 2019. Dir. Marilyn Freeman).
The Old Stripper (USA, 2018. Dir. Jack Truman).
Queen of the Castle (Germany, 2016. Dir. Felix Klee).
Happy Birthday (Iraq, 2019). Dir. Layth Daham).
Trap (New Zealand, 2018. Dir. Paul Ames).
Slow Death (Iran, 2019. Dir. Amen Sahraei).
My Beloved Anxiety (Brazil, 2019. Dir. Paulo Ernesto).
Infinite while it lasts (Brazil, 2019. Dir. Akira Kamiki).
My Theatre (Japan, 2018. Dir. Kazua Ashizawa).

In celebration of PRIDE Month, the Clinton Street Resistance Series presents a special screening of BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999), directed by Jamie Babbit. This cult classic is a queer coming of age tale centered around the story of a naive teenager sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.

Bring your friends & celebrate Pride with everyone down on Clinton Street.

Everything about this film feels like its inspiration, John Waters. Besides the lovably kooky characters and sets, every one of these kids is treated with the utmost care and love. Being gay is celebrated in this film, and in the most entertaining way possible. It's encouraging to see a film that isn't catty or acidic with its comedy and knows how to show teenage gay characters in a positive light.

Spencer S., Rotten Tomatoes Super Reviewer

The Worst Idea of All Time is coming back to Portland! Guy and Tim have been watching and reviewing Sex and The City: The Movie twice a week for close to six months and we want to see you as we approach the home stretch. Our brains are mush, but our hearts are open. Catch the Frosty Fellas in the room with a special screening that’s not to be missed.

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.

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!

“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.