Theatre owners gotta take a break sometime...

Happy Independence Day from the crew at the Clinton!

USA, 2008
Kerri O'Kane
80 minutes

Q & A with producer Jessica Bender on Tuesday - 4/8

The story of the promising, underground Seattle band, The Gits. Fronted by charismatic vocalist, Mia Zapata, and poised to explode onto the national music scene, a stranger came in and took it all away. A decade later, the legacy lives on.

Website

Shows at
7 & 9pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

CST Manager Seth is having a birthday - and is showing two of his all-time favorites on the big screen!

At 7PM:
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
USA, 1986
Stephen King
97 minutes

When a mysterious comet passes close within the Earth, machines all over the World come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people in a desolate Truck Stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines...or be killed by them.

At 9PM:
REPO MAN
U.S., 1984
Alex Cox
 92 minutes

Now-classic punk fable of Otto, a newly hired repossession man, and his quest for the alien cargo-carrying Chevy Malibu.

People Who Do Noise is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the motivations, emotions, and ideas that go into this uncompromising, sometimes brutal musical form. Unwavering in its focus, the film brings to light an art form unfathomable to many, with only the words of the musicians themselves providing any explanation for the pulsating sonic chaos they create.
The film takes a very personal approach, capturing the musicians working alone with no interference from a live audience. What often took place in crowded basements or dark smoky venues was stripped bare for the cameras, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the many different instruments and methods used.
Covering a wide range of artists and styles, the film features everything from the absurdist free-improvisations of genre-pioneers Smegma, to the harsh-noise assaults of Oscillating Innards and everything in between. Many of the artists in the film, such as Yellow Swans and Daniel Menche, have performed and sold records all over the world. In spite of such successes, noise music remains one of the least understood and most inaccessible of genres.
With an unflinching cinematic style, the film defies any trend-setting or commercial representation, opting instead for a stark portrayal of a musical underground at its most genuine and vital. For the subjects of the film, noise music is a way of life; a life in opposition to the tidy, orderly, and vacuous pop-culture experience.

Website

Shows at
8 pm

General
Admission
$6

Japan, 2006
Yôji Yamada
121 minutes

WINNER OF 12 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

"...fine storytelling."
- Variety

"...a simple, deeply involving, memorable film."
einsiders.com

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Website

Shows at
7pm and
9:30pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

SANG-FROID RIDING CLUB PRESENTS...

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

UK/France, 1968
Jack Cardiff
91 minutes

Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.

Explore the sensuality of the motorcycle experience with a female empowerment ride-in!

Shows at 9pm

General
Admission
$10

GEORGE KUCHAR IN ATTENDANCE!

"No art form demands as much spontaneous, imaginative improvisation as low-budget filmmaking, and no American low-budget filmmakers are as imaginative as George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike. Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the ’sixties, they are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch. That influence is still being felt."

Bright Lights Film Journel

Friday Night show:
DANGLING DIGITALIA

CINEMAVILLE
By George Kuchar
About 17 minutes…2007 A Japanese student is taken by his teacher to the land down under from Frisco (LA) and gets to meet the mighty that fuel our lust for entertainment and art with gregarious gusto. The viewer gets to share the wonders that confront this stranger in a strange land as the locals do what they do best: appear loco yet lubricated for vocational wisdom.

THE CELLULOID CAVALCADE
By George Kuchar
About 20 minutes…2008
A pile-up of events pertaining to cinematic expositions begins its whirlwind of activity in the south and then moves west with the sun to the “golden state” for all that glitters on a silver screen. Along the way we find a cast of characters befitting the halls of any art asylum in need of talented inmates. Rich and poor lend their support to a medium that entombs our tribal dreams in a cocoon of luminous filaments that ignite projection lamps statewide so that the darkness be not so blinding (whatever the hell that means?).

STORM SURGE
By George Kuchar
About 15 minutes…2004
A sculptor dabbles in the wetness of his craft while the skies threaten a soaking to the winterized wonderland of a western shoreline.
Words of wisdom issue from the mind of a maligned artist as his calendar of kitsch and comfort flap their pages amid a tempest of sea foam and pigeon wings.
Shrimp is gnawed upon in dwellings of nutritional notoriety while the hunger of more carnal need feeds the mind with fantasies best left as fodder for a more potent farter.

CENTENNIAL
By George Kuchar
About 13 minutes…2007 A weather diary of sorts where my mouth is pretty much shut but the window is wide open to various cloudscapes and local color tinged with a twang. Spring on the prairie with a sprinkling of Porky Pig pixie-powder on the lips of he who crunches in protein paradise.

TEMPLE OF TORMENT
By George Kuchar
Mini-DV…18 minutes There is so much to absorb: the wetness from the sky. The hooded figure in the box. A big plate of pasta, and that chair on wheels. Messages of moral guidance clash with actions that are on a collision course with dilapidation. And through it all the water runs, the fridge is full and hearts yearn for that which mellows the melody of God’s glockenspiel. For the winds of change rattle the bones of the grim reaper as he swings his scythe in rhythm to a cacophony of corruption intrinsic to this orchestra pit of purgatorial preludes and egg laying swan songs.

Saturday Night show:
ACADEMIC ATROCITIES

WEB OF VICE
By George Kuchar
50 minutes
Shot with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, this colorful drama with song and dance numbers (plus burlesque acts) follows the libidinous poisoning of Vatican personnel by an otherworldly intruder. The cast is mostly young and vibrant and the songs staged as opulently as possible on a $400 budget. Anyone interested in these collaborative productions will find a lot to gawk at in this backstage romance with pagan overtures galore.

ORPHANS OF THE COSMOS
By George Kuchar
About 40 minutes…2008
Made at the San Francisco Art Institute with my students, this tuneful picture transports the viewer to the planet Mars as three attractive teens seek funding for an expedition into adulthood. Along the way they and we encounter the ups and downs of human relations and otherworldly intercourse. A family picture with timeless values, this foray into fantasy land on a tight budget should please the young at heart or old in body in unexpected ways. Although this trip is short on funding but big in concept it's really quite a ride and looks like a million bucks for the vision impaired.

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Shows at
8:30pm

General
Admission
$8

USA, 1985
Martin Scorsese
97 minutes

RARE SCREENING!

A New York office worker has "a very strange night" when he ventures for a late night date with a woman he just meets, which turns into waking nightmare when one mishap after another strands him in a hostile neighborhood in his quest to return home before morning.

Shows at
7pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

USA, 2008
Kerri O'Kane
80 minutes

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

The story of the promising, underground Seattle band, The Gits. Fronted by charismatic vocalist, Mia Zapata, and poised to explode onto the national music scene, a stranger came in and took it all away. A decade later, the legacy lives on.

Website

Shows at
9pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

MIKE KUCHAR IN ATTENDANCE!

"No art form demands as much spontaneous, imaginative improvisation as low-budget filmmaking, and no American low-budget filmmakers are as imaginative as George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike. Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the ’sixties, they are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch. That influence is still being felt."

Bright Lights Film Journel

FRIDAY PROGRAM

Hush-A-Bye Baby
Ladies can always be nude, but never, ever naked!

Cupid's Infirmary
False eyelashes and lip gloss decorate this drama about a dinner literally going down the toilet, Cupid's Infirmary is rancid drama at its smelliest!

A Dream of Roses
A housewife's dull life suddenly becomes a thorny "passion play."

Grip of the Gorgon
Those snake haired sisters of legend are alive and well, living in New York city and still turning men hard as stone!

Paradise Gone
They were plenty of fruit growing in Eden; mangoes, pears, oranges. Why did Eve have to pick that apple?!!

SATURDAY PROGRAM

Incantation
This kind of Video Voodoo punches below the belt!

Stranger in Apartment 9F
A teleplay about looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places.

The Faery Garden
A lady alone amid the flowers of a garden becomes the target of mischievous elements therein.

The Fornicators
A marriage that "plays" together "stays together."

Vortex
Black and blue and "I LOVE YOU."

Wind In My Sails
Love without an anchor leaves the heart adrift.

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Shows at
8:30pm

General
Admission
$8

Golden Age porn director Cecil Howard has won numerous awards as director in the adult industry and has developed a cult following among many Golden Age fans. Vintage trailers before each feature.

7PM
Heat Wave (1977)
Spooky characters and lighting highlight this early effort from Howard. See Sharon Mitchell in the prime of her career. This rare film is unavailable on dvd and not seen for years let alone on the big screen. Also stars Veri Knotty and Richard Bolla.

9PM
Neon Nights (1981)
Lysa Thatcher in a coming of age role. She runs off to NYC in search of her sister and along the way meets a magician. This very plot driven and psychological film is well acted by all players. Neon Nights, with it's focus on characterization, story, and set design is a good example of what makes films from the Golden Age of porn different than contemporary shot on video endeavors. Here is a chance to see this Golden Age classic on the big screen. Do not miss the levitation scene! Also stars: Veronica Hart, Jamie Gillis, Eric Edwards and Kandi Barbour.

Heat Wave
shows at
7pm

Neon Nights
shows at
9pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

USA, 2008
Joshua Dugdale
70 minutes

ONE NIGHT ONLY BENEFIT!
PORTLAND PREMIERE!


The Unkwinking Gaze was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Dalai Lama as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China. David and Goliath is played out in front of us as the world’s emerging superpower and the Dalai Lama walk a tightrope over an issue of global importance.

Following the movie,
we will have a musical
performance by the Tara Cafe
Project, a group of Tibetan
musicians that have been
producing music and
touring in North America.

Proceeds benefit the
Crag Law Center

Film Website

Shows at
7pm

General
Admission
$20

France, 1959
François Truffaut
99 minutes

The François Truffaut Masterpiece presented as a BRAND NEW 35MM film print

A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.

Shows at
7pm and
9pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

LATE NIGHT MUSIC
GEEKS REJOICE!!!

Every Friday night in August, the Clinton is featuring a special music program - featuring some of the greats in pop/rock music.

AUGUST 1st

Jimi Hendrix
The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall,

February 24, 1969. The final Experience performance became known as their UK swan song. Originally filmed and intended for official release, but it never happened. (65 min.)

PLUS: Atlanta Pop Festival

July 4, 1970. It was an unbearable 115-degree day that caused performances in the second annual Atlanta International Pop Festival to be delayed until late that evening. Jimi Hendrix was scheduled for the prime slot that afternoon, but instead went on after midnight. His focus was solely on the music--and the music it was! Personnel includes Mitch Mitchell (d) and Billy Cox (b). (35 min.)

AUGUST 8th

Talking Heads

Witness the legendary Heads from one of their best tours – Remain in Light – from Rome, Italy, in 1980. Assisting the group on guitar and vocals for this tour was Adrian Belew (Frank Zappa, King Crimson & David Bowie alumni). A rare and professionally filmed Italian TV broadcast! (65 min.)

PLUS:

The ultimate Crown Jewel in the Talking Head’s archives – live from the legendary CBGB Club, NYC, in 1975. The excerpts you will see testify to a band at an early stage of development, before they were even signed to a record label. This recording is the earliest known visual performance to date of the band. (25 min.)

AUGUST 15th

Tom Waits

An exceptionally rare, high quality concert from the April 18, 1977 edition of Rockpalast, the legendary West German music television program. Welcome to the dark, jazzy, twisted, literary world that is Tom Waits. For most of us who never had a chance to catch him in the good ol’ days, now’s the chance. (80 min.)

AUGUST 22nd

A Night of Vintage Progressive Rock

From the annals of our vast collection comes this unforgettable night of rarities. Progressive Rock--an ambitious and eclectic term used to describe the blending of traditional rock with classical or jazz influences--is only a starting point to measure this, often unclassifiable form of musical expression in the early to mid-70’s. Artists include Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, ELO, ELP, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Gentle Giant…and more. Prepare to be Moog-ified! (2 hours)

AUGUST 29th

Frank Zappa

Behold Frank Zappa and the Mothers live in Stockholm, Sweden, August 21, 1973! This concert was televised as part of a Swedish series of concert broadcasts. The picture and sound are second-to-none. Personnel includes: Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Ruth Underwood, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler and Ralph Humphrey. (65 min.)

PLUS:

October 1968 - The Beat Club, Bremen Germany – Witness the original Mothers of Invention Freak Out! in this intimate, and more than a bit psychedelic, German TV broadcast. (35 min.)

Every Friday night in August at
11:15 pm

General
Admission
$6

The Clinton Street Theater and the Rocky Horror Picture Show

30 Years of
Absolute Pleasure!

The Clinton Street Theater has been showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night (except for foul weather, holidays, etc.) since April 1978.

Bring your rice, the toast, the G-String, and come on down to the longest running RHPS in the WORLD!

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