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July 4 |
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Theatre
owners gotta take a break sometime...
Happy Independence Day from the crew at the Clinton!
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NO SHOWS
ALL DAY
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July 12 |
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ALL AGES CONCERT!
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shoeshine Blues
Leonard Mynx
Curious Hands
Les Flaneurs
Victory & The Ladds
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Shows
at
7pm
General
Admission
$6
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July 13 - 18 |
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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:
VANISHING POINT
USA, 1971
Richard C. Sarafian
98 minutes
Kowalski, the hero of the story, works for a car delivery service. He
takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to Frisco,
California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there
in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and
highway patrol they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the
way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul - a blind DJ with a police radio
scanner. Throw in lots of chase scenes, gay hitchhikers, a naked woman
riding a motorbike, lots of Mopar and you've got a great cult hit from
the early 70's
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Shows
at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
(both films)
$6
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July 19 |
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Please join the Sang-Froid Riding Club for a
night of motorcycle movie madness. In addition to some great shorts
(the Peanuts cartoon favorite "You're A Good Sport,
Charlie Brown!") and timeless classics (On Any
Sunday), the show will include the world premier of "Second
Coming", a documentary about the 2006 European Cannonball
Bike Run - as featured in Cycle World. Created by local filmmaker (creator
of "Lines") and moto-madman Matt Sanders, this is sure
to please.
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Shows at
7pm
General
Admission
$6
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July 20-23 |
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Pristine 35MM Film Print.
BANNED over
half the World!
A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as
rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian
drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings,
murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous
free-jazz score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour
l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the
World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and
excites the senses!
60's French Noir Sleaze.
Never Released on
DVD or VHS.
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Shows at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
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July 24-25 |
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Greg
Hamilton
65 minutes - 16mm
16MM DRUG SCARE FILMS!
Kick back with a bud and soak up these campy educational films!
MARIJUANA
(24 min)
The cult classic - starring a zoned-out Sonny Bono lecturing about pot.
Full of half-truths and gorilladust.
ANGEL DEATH
(26 min)
Horrifying scare film co-narrated by Paul Newman. Features users relating
ugly stories of PCP abuse - as well as filmed episodes of disturbing
PCP reactions from humans and animals.
SPEEDSCENE: THE PROBLEM WITH AMPHETIMINE ABUSE
(17 min)
Bogus tweaker interviews and "experts" abound in this hideous
little short about speed addiction.
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Shows at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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July 26 |
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THE GREATEST LOCAL IMPROV TROUP RETURNS YET AGAIN!!!
My Own Private Improv is back at The Clinton Street
Theater with Portland's finest improvised comedy. The momentum of the
movement is picking up, and you'll want to come witness the impromptu
fun and games yourself. Bring a friend, bring a date, bring extra money
for a t-shirt and some drinks at the bar! Once you experience comedy
like this, you'll never think of it the same way again.
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Shows at
9:30pm
General
Admission
$6
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July 27 |
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Live performances and brand new content cap off the most intense evening
of cinimatic cyclical cex ever. The last time it played 500 sexy bikers
tried to fit inside the Clinton St Theater. Half of them didn't make
it.
CST Owner Seth Sonstein says: "it is a masterful work of filth"
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Shows at
9pm
General
Admission
$6
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July 28 - 31 |
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USA, 2006
Sion Sono
159 minutes
A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away
from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet
BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle",
which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls. A
sequel to 2002's cult-status film "Suicide Club"
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Shows at
7 pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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J28 - A1 |
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USA, 2001
Shinichirô Watanabe
116 minutes
Pristine 35MM Print!
In 2071,
Halloween is a big time national holiday on Mars.
However a few days before Hallow's Eve, a tanker truck
was blown up in the middle of a busy street. The
substance from the explosion contained an unknown virus that's infected
several victims. This is the work of a terrorist who has a scheme in
using this
virus to kill millions of people across the galaxy.
300,000,000 Woolongs is the bounty on the terrorist.
That made the Bebop Crew start investigating and
finding out who the terrorist is. But when they learned who it is and
what the virus is, things become
bizarre and peculiar.
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Shows at
9:40pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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August 2 |
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USA, 2007
Karney Hatch
85 minutes
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!
This documentary follows director Karney Hatch in his
successful attempt to get his overdraft fees back from
his bank. Along the way he finds out how and why
banks went from being trusted institutions to being
loathed by many consumers. Also examines the larger
issue of corporate domination of both our society and
the government.
Includes interviews with Ralph Nader, Joel Bakan ("The
Corporation"), Rep. Maloney of New York, a loan shark,
a bank debt collector, a retired senior VP from Bank
of America, and numerous consumer advocates.
It's an anti-corporate documentary with a happy
ending, for once!
Director Q&A following the 7pm screening!
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Shows
at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
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August 3 - 5 |
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16
and 35mm
Dennis Nyback
It was forty years ago that young people from around the United States
flocked to the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco for the Summer
of Love. Media coverage took what had been brewing in Haight-Ashbury
for a couple of years and exposed Hippies to the national
audience. The Summer of Love lasted only that one summer,
but flower children returning to their homes spread the hippie counterculture
across the nation. Two years later Woodstock helped define the generation
and Altamont helped end it.
August 3, 4 and 5 at 7pm
THE HIPPIE TEMPTATION A CBS Special Report
with Harry Reasoner. This report took the avuncular Mr. Reasoner to
Haight-Ashbury to report to the nation just what was going on and he
wasn't happy with what he saw. The report is filled with wonderful
footage of the psychedelic scene with the high point being Mr. Reasoner's
visit to the Grateful Dead house. There he asks the members of
the band if they use drugs. They happily admit they do.
August 3 at 9pm
LSD Flashback Drug Scare Films
The show will open with the Tim Smith Matt Groening film Drugs:
Killers or Dillers. Tim and Matt made this dead
on spoof of drug scare films while in high school in Portland in 1972.
It will be followed by the film that inspired it LSD Trip or
Trap which was made by the great Sid Davis in 1967. Also
shown will be the astonishing All My Tomorrows, the
harrowing The Day I Died and the hilarious The
Perfect Drug Film. Plus more.
August 4 at 9pm
The 1967 Psychedelic and Rock and Roll Film Show
After watching the Hippie Temptation you will be more prepared than
you would have thought possible to experience fabulous acts from the
Summer of Love on the big screen. Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson
Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly
and the Family Stone, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, John
and Yoko and more. Oh, yes the more includes Tiny Tim.
August 5 at 9pm
Wild In the Streets (1968)
American International Pictures got this out as fast as they
could, but they couldn't get it out until May of 1968. This
is a one of a kind film and a wonderful time capsule of the era.
It concerns a rock star becoming president and who puts all Americans
over the age of thirty in concentration camps and force feeds them LSD.
Christopher Jones plays the rock star prez. Shelley Winters plays
his mom. What more could you ask for?
All programs will be in glorious 16mm except for Wild In the Streets
which will be in stunning 35mm.
Standard Clinton Street Theater prices apply for this once in a lifetime
show
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Shows
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7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
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August 6-7 |
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USA, 2007
Richard Matson
90 minutes
Towncraft looks at the importance of local scenes in a changing music
world and the exciting music that emerges from smaller cities across
the country when communities come together. Much like in Austin, Seattle,
Athens and Chapel Hill, an underground-Rock scene emerged in Little
Rock in the late 80s and has served as a vibrant center of the city's
culture ever since. Unlike other towns, Little Rock's scene was composed
almost entirely of kids. 14-18 year-olds were booking their own shows,
starting record labels, opening record stores and playing with large
national acts. The film focuses on the roots of the Little Rock scene,
how it changed the lives of those involved, the enormous DIY ethos that
has shaped the scene for the past 20 years and how the scene continues
to thrive as pioneers hit their mid-30s.
Join bands from the film Towncraft for live music following
the 7pm Portland Premiere!
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Shows
at
7pm (6/6)
w/live music
afterwards
Shows
at
7pm & 9pm
(6/7)
General
Admission
$6
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August 8-9 |
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Filmmaker Rosie Rowe’s first feature length documentary The House
of Cunt: Together and Alone, combines candid interviews, performance
footage, and back stage moments into a refreshingly honest portrait
of Portland’s premier avant-garde performance troupe.
From Their inception in 2000, until their hiatus of 2004 HOC was widely
regarded among Portland artists in the know as a truly unique mix of
DIY art, entertainment, singing, acting and dance. Their celebrity attracted
the attention of artists such as author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
who penned their act the second best thing to do in Portland.
As a special treat HOC members including Amby Martin will attend and
be available for Q and A afterwards.
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Shows
at
7:30pm (6/8)
Shows
at
7pm & 9pm
(6/9)
General
Admission
$6
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August 10 - 16 |
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SHE DEVILS ON WHEELS
USA, 1968
Herschell Gordon Lewis
82 minutes
An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle
races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and
clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
THE LOSERS
USA, 1970
Jack Starrett
95 minutes
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a
captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round
of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big
Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor
plating, and storm the enemy camp.
SPECIAL ON 8/10 -
TRIPLE FEATURE ON FRIDAY NIGHT - INCLUDES "GO"
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Shows
at
7pm
Shows
at
9 pm
NO 9pm SHOW
on 8/16
General
Admission
$6
for both shows
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August 16 |
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LAST SHOW!
Ian Karmel has been accepted into the Groundlings in
Hollywood U.S.A. and is under consideration for
Saturday Night Live. This will be the last My Own Private Improv show!
My Own Private Improv is back at The Clinton Street
Theater with Portland's finest improvised comedy. The momentum of the
movement is picking up, and you'll want to come witness the impromptu
fun and games yourself. Bring a friend, bring a date, bring extra money
for a t-shirt and some drinks at the bar! Once you experience comedy
like this, you'll never think of it the same way again.
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Shows at
9:30pm
General
Admission
$6
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August 17 - 23 |
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U.S., 1979,
Walter Hill,
93 minutes
"Fast, violent,
dark, and thrilling."
- BBC interactive
The leader of New York's biggest street gang declares a truce, and gangs
from all 5 boroughs venture to the bronx for a clandestine meeting.
When an assasination takes place, one gang stands wrongly accused and
the truce is off. Now they must fight they're way back home, because
a whole city is gunning for - The Warriors.
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Shows
at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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A31 - S6 |
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USA, 1987
Stanley Kubrick
116 minutes
20TH ANNIVERSARY
OF STANLEY KUBRICKS' EPIC VIETNAM WAR FILM
A pragmatic U.S. Marine (Matthew Modine) observes the dehumanizing effects
the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal
basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
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Shows
at
7pm and 9:15pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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Sept 7 - 13 |
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USA, 1985
Gus Van Sant
78 minutes
BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT OF GUS VAN SANTS' FIRST MAJOR FILM!
With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's
debut feature, Mala Noche, heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new
voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland,
Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters,
and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it
follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican
immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema
of the nineties and is a fascinating time capsule from an era that continues
to haunt the director's work.
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Shows
at
5pm
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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Sept 14 - 19 |
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USA, 2007
Ashley Sabin
78 minutes
"Fascinating...achieves potent dramatic and emotional impact...Artful,
beautiful visual flourishes."
- Variety
Kamp Katrina, an award winning cinéma vérité documentary,
follows the in-depth lives of a small group of people who have taken
refuge in a garden transformed into a tent city by an extraordinary
New Orleans couple, Ms. Pearl and her husband, David. Carnivalesque
Films latest documentary uses tragedy as a tool to clarify and illuminate
abandonment and madness of their lives. This film has no political targets;
instead, it focuses on the struggle of individuals who attempt to pick
up their lives in the face of loss, grief, and hope.
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Shows
at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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Sept 20 |
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U.S.,
2005
Terry Musgrove
54 minutes
JOIN US AT THE CLINTON FOR THE 3rd ANNUAL
DOCUMENTARY
CELEBRATION OF OREGON'S ONLY STATE SPONSORED ROCK FESTIVAL!
In 1970, Governor Tom McCall was presented with a problem - thousands
of protestors were planning to protest Nixon's visit to Portland at
an American Legion conference. At the same time, a group of students
were looking to hold a Woodstock-style event - in order avoid another
bloody clash with police. From this turmoil, the first state-sponsored
rock festival - Vortex I - was born.
Held near Estacada, the music/alternative lifestyle festival drew over
100,000 attendees and generated a fascinating chapter in Oregon's colorful
history. Full of interviews and great archival footage - this must-see
locally-made documentary is an entertaining and educational window into
a risky political move that paid off and helped keep the peace in Oregon.
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Shows at
7pm and 9pm
General
Admission
$6
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Sept 21-27 |
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Japan, 2004
Takashi Miike
115 minutes
Being a failure as a teacher and a
familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by
dressing up as "Zebraman", the superhero. Although the
TV series whas canceled after only 6 episodes, this
cannot stop him from acting out his escape fantasy in a self made zebra-suit.
He get's more then he could ever wish for, when his black-and-white
dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute
(green) evil and a happy ending.
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Shows
at
7pm and 9:30pm
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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Sept 21 |
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USA, 2007
brYan
90 minutes
The first
feature film from Portland writer/director brYan, takes a new approach
to the modern horror movie by providing the viewer with shockingly real
monsters: depression, paranoia, and suicide. As it chronicles the deepest,
darkest places in the human soul, “Ajafea” becomes conscious
of itself as a movie, and its protagonist becomes conscious of himself
as a character within that world. The question of meaning in a finite
existence is grappled with, and it is ultimately the thirst for truth
and the need to achieve a higher consciousness within this plane of
existence that drives the main character to give in to his own demons.
“Ajafea” follows Mike, a college student, as he studies
for a math test he is wholly unprepared for. The viewer is granted access
to the points-of-view of other characters, and can see that others do
not see the world through the same eyes as Mike does. Soon Mike also
begins to realize his friends are not what they seem, and that his inability
to relate to others is founded not in his own difference, but in the
very alien nature of those closest to him. As Mike struggles to survive
and struggles with a motivation for surviving, he creeps closer to a
cold revelation as to his place in the world. That ultimate revelation
provokes dread initially, but soon a wave of loneliness overcomes Mike.
It is the loneliness that accompanies the knowledge that one is all
alone in the universe.
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Shows
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11:30pm
General
Admission
$6
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Sept 28 - Oct 3 |
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7pm:
RED EYE
South Korea, 2005
Kim Dong Bin
96 minutes
When a new stewardess joins the night shift
crew of the train, she find that some mystic events
become occur during the train night run. We see that the train has more
hidden secrets that lead to a suspicion that it might be linked to the
crash of the
same train several years ago. The 'spooky' train
becomes a living thing and slowly starting to claim
victims. Will the lady be able to stop this or all of
the people aboard this train doomed?
9pm:
WITCHBOARD
South Korea, 2004
Byeong-ki Ahn
92 minutes
Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul.
On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates.
Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four
girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school,
one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down
where Yu-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death,
and now the school is enclosed by horror.
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Shows
at
7pm and 9pm
BOTH
FILMS
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
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Every Friday |
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Fridays in August @ 11PM unless otherwise noted.
08/03: GUMBY: THE MOVIE
The green legend in his own movie. Oh No!!
08/10: GO
The 1999 version with pre TomKat - Katie Holmes
08/17: RAD
1980s BMX-ridin'
to the MAX!
08/24: WEEKEND WARRIORS
Military hijix! WTF Over!
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Shows at
Midnight
General
Admission
$6
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Every Saturday |
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The Clinton Street
Theater and the Rocky Horror Picture Show
28 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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Shows at
Midnight
General
Admission
$6
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