Archive --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 --- Back
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

THE HERO: LOVE STORY OF A SPY		- May 30 - Jun 5
	India, 2002, Anil Sharma, 35mm Cinemascope, 175 minutes, Hindi with subtitles One of Bollywood's biggest-budgeted and most popular epics, makes its Portland debut. THE HERO: LOVE STORY OF A SPY is the kind of good old-fashioned, fun for the whole family entertainment that Hollywood is no longer capable or interested in making. Movie-goers who have not yet had the chance to catch a Bollywood epic on the big screen will find HERO the perfect introduction.	Shows at 7pm Matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm General Admission $6 Matinee/Tuesday Admission $4

SHOWGIRLS		- June 6 - 12
	US, 1995, Paul Verhoeven, 35mm, 131 minutes Upon its release in 1995, Paul Verhoevens SHOWGIRLS was promptly lambasted as a cinematic disaster of the first order. A cinematic howler with all the poorly-acted sex, drugs and you could bear to watch. Writer and performer David Schmader (STRAIGHT) casts a fresh eye over Verhoeven¹s glossy erotic drama and discovers that SHOWGIRLS is the single most entertaining movie ever made. Join Schmader Friday, June 6 as he hosts a very special screening of Verhoeven¹s misunderstood masterwork, during which he¹ll offer knowledgeable commentary, incisive insight and irrefutable proof of the eternal brilliance of SHOWGIRLS. Review of SHOWGIRLS Special screening hosted by David Schmader Friday, June 6 at 8pm. Tickets for this performance only are $10; advance purchase recommended Interview with David Schmader	Show at 7pm and 9:40pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4 June 6th show at 8pm David Schmader hosts "Showgirls" $10

FLASHDANCE		- June 13 - 19
	US, 1983, Adrian Lyne, 35mm, 93 minutes Dig out the leg warmers, the ripped t-shirts, and the mousse! It¹s the twentieth anniversary of Adrian Lyne¹s FLASHDANCE. Often referred to rather slightingly as the first MTV movie, FLASHDANCE is nonetheless an awesomely entertaining trifle full of inexplicably brief scenes, haiku-like dialogue, hideous fashions, monster 80s dance numbers, in short, all the things that make a cult classic. Review of FLASHDANCE.	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4
VERSUS		- June 20 - 26
	Japan, 2000, Ryuhei Kitamura, 35mm, 119 minutes, subtitled Five Yakuza thugs, two escaped convicts, one evil wizard, and a forest full of gun-toting zombies. Mix with gasoline and serve. High on style, low on budget, delivering non-stop, blood-spurting fun, it's Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD for a new millennium. VERSUS website	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4

BIGGER THAN JESUS: Diary of a Rock and Roll Fan		- June 27
	Written by and starring Rick Emerson, Directed by Joni DeRouchie Do you remember the day you discovered rock? In BIGGER THAN JESUS: THE DIARY OF A ROCK AND ROLL FAN, Portland talk-show host Rick Emerson takes you on a fifteen-year journey of musical fandom, from his pasty, gangly youth, to his heavy-metal adolescence, to his pasty, gangly adulthood. Along the way, he honors the power of music to transform your life, and reveals that you weren't the only one secretly listening to Poison records all those years ago. With an all-star soundtrack and a painfully accurate memory, BIGGER THAN JESUS is a love letter to every band that ever saved your life. For more information as well as advance tickets, go to www.rickemerson.com	Shows at 8pm General Admission $10 Advance $8

CUT AND PASTE SKATEBOARDING FILM FESTIVAL		- June 28
	Now in its third year, the Cut and Paste Skateboarding Film Festival (CAPFF) continues its goal of providing an open forum for skateboarders and skate-related artists to showcase their filmmaking talents. Among this year's ten short films and videos are the bizarre and humorous animations of Portland's Dan Ness, DB Griffith's The Art of Weightlessness, which explores the crutch skating and dancing of Bill Shannon, and Lee Daniel¹s 1980s garage skating masterpiece Late Air. The program also features a special screening of Driftwood, a psycho-geographical tour of London through the eyes of a skateboarder by Nick Relph and Oliver Payne. For more information go to their website	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6

ROCK THAT UKE		- Jun 29 - Jul 2
	US, 2003, William Preston Robertson & Sean Anderson, video, 62 minutes The ukulele is more than a tiny musical instrument. It¹s a state of mind. This is the premise of ROCK THAT UKE, an eccentric documentary that examines the mystical allure of this four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of post-punk musicians who have taken up the instrument as a counter cultural statement. Preceding the feature will be Skizz Cyzyk's short ukulele video, Damn You, Mr. Bush. Sunday's 7pm show will be followed by a live jam/concert featuring some of Portland's best ukers including: Baby Gramps; The Duke of Uke, Jim Cser; Brook Adams; Francis Doo; Matthew Hattie Hein; and the Portland Ukulele Association. Also, RTU director Bill Robertson will attend Sunday's show. Advance tickets to the Sunday show/concert will be available at the box office starting Friday, June 20. For more information, log onto www.rockthatuke.com	Shows at 7pm and 9pm Sunday 7pm screening/ concert $8 General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4 NO 9pm screening on June 29

BAD DICKS: BUSTING/STARSKY and HUTCH		- July 3
	Peter Hyam's BUSTING (1973) stars Robert Blake and Elliot Gould as two LA cops assigned to penny-ante vice squad duty hassling hookers and raiding gay bars instead of busting the kingpin (the always excellent Allen Garfield) running the show. Car chases, fist fights, and some nice camera work through LA's seamier side make BUSTING an undiscovered gem. Also watch for Antonio Fargas in the bar scene where Gould and Blake have to horrors!- go undercover as HOMOSEXUALS. Rounding out the bill will be The Vampire, the Halloween episode from the second season of STARSKY AND HUTCH, in which the boys suspect a dance instructor of being A) a murderer and B) a vampire and C) not a good dancer. Thighmistress/poetess Suzanne Somers guest stars.	Show at 8pm General Admission $6

ICHI THE KILLER		- July 5 - 10
	Japan, 2001 Takashi Miike, 35mm, 126 minutes, subtitled This ultra-violent revenge tale, based on a banned manga, documents the you-torture-me, I¹ll-torture-you struggle between the passive, unstable Ichi, who can brutally dispatch his victims only after being hypnotized, and the sadistic, masochistic, psychotic Kakihara, who is extremely jealous of the fact that Ichi beat his boss to a bloody pulp before finally offing him. "A strong contender for the sickest movie of all time."-- Austin King, The Guardian WARNING: CONTAINS SCENES OF EXTREME, SUPER-GNARLY VIOLENCE AND TORTURE. IF YOU THINK THIS MOVIE WILL DISTURB YOU, YOU ARE PROBABLY RIGHT. ICHI website	Shows at 7pm and 9:30pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4

SICK PUPPY FILM FESTIVAL		- July 11 - 13
	The aptly named Sick Puppy Festival, now in its third year, occupies the rich cesspool of bottom-feeding fests, a phrase the creators would surely cheer. The Pup is a collection of shorts divided into three different programs, each will play once nightly. Its theme? The glories of all things gross. The titles tell the tale: Don't Mix Paint with Blood, Extreme Man and Insane Boy, World's Best Drug, Sickness, Killer Krapper, Night of the Dumper. This is the anti-p.c. festival, with plenty of nudity and gore and what it calls "mature subject matter" (sensitive souls are warned). SICK PUPPY FESTIVAL site	Sick Puppies' "Greatest Hits" Shows at 6pm Part One of the 2003 Fest Shows at 8pm Part Two of the 2003 Fest Shows at 10pm General Admission $7

PDX Indymedia event		- July 14th
	For details, see the Portland Independent Media website at http://portland.indymedia.org	Shows at TBA General Admission $6
THE MORMON CHURCH EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU		- July 15 - 17
	US, 16mm, 100 minutes Ahh...the magic of Mormon educational filmmaking! Outrageous camp meets brutal realism in these short films that confront the moral issues facing teens in a world teeming with hideous fashion, bad haircuts and campus conflict. Not to be missed!!	Shows at 8pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4

MEDEA		- July 18 - 24
	1987, Denmark, Lars von Trier, DVD, 77 minutes, subtitled MEDEA is a revelation - the discovery of a rarely-seen, legendary film from the director of BREAKING THE WAVES and DANCER IN THE DARK. Lars von Trier claimed to be in psychic communication with the late Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc) on whose screenplay the film is based during the shooting. This brilliantly original exploration of the dark passions of a woman scorned unfolds in shimmering North Sea marshlands and gloomy subterranean passageways. This visionary film is both shocking and haunting; a work of mythic realism. Review of MEDEA	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4

THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS		- July 25 - 31
	France, 2002, 35mm, silent with French and English subtitles This collection of French blue movies made between 1905 and 1930 - was originally made to entertain whorehouse patrons before the real action started. The films feature a fascinating array of real people going at it hot and heavy. Featuring a dozen hard-core shorts with alluring titles like Abott Bitt at the Convent, The Musketeer¹s Dinner, and School Spanking, the films provide an eye-opening glimpse into a past that for too long has been sanitized and nostalgia-tized beyond recognition. Adults only! Anyone born between 1905-1930 who brings a date will receive 2-for-1 admission! Review of GOND	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4

PISTOL OPERA		- Aug 1 - 7
	Japan, 2001, Seijun Suzuki, 35mm, 112 minutes, Japanese w/subtitles PISTOL OPERA is the legendary Seijun Suzuki¹s first film in a decade, his long-awaited, sequel to 1967's BRANDED TO KILL. Black kimono-ed, bitch-booted Stray Cat is ranked number three in the Assassin's Guild, but longs for the coveted number one spot. With the help of Goro Hanada, the rice-loving freak from BRANDED TO KILL who is now the honorary head of the guild, Stray Cat aims to kill her way to the top. Review of PISTOL OPERA	Shows at 7pm and 9:20pm General Admission $6 Tuesday Admission $4
WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE...		- Aug 3rd
	US, 2003, No Empire Pictures,DV, 52 minutes, plus short(s)? What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? We Interrupt This Empire... is a powerful look into the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco on the day after the United States invaded Iraq. With the audio backdrop including the live radio broadcasts from the Independent Media Center to SFPD's tactical communications that were picked up on police scanners, the documentary reveals a diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive. www.videoactivism.org	Shows at 4pm General Admission $6
CASCADE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL		- Aug 8 - 10
	Get ready for three days of some of the finest independent films the Northwest has to offer. The Clinton Street Theater is proud to host the Cascade Independent Film Festival, an exhibition of experimental, narrative, documentary and animation film and video created by regional and national filmmakers. On Friday the CIFF kicks off with two sets of film shorts, with a heavy emphasis on the experimental and animation. Saturday is devoted to the themes of human rights and the environment. The day will begin with an opportunity for networking between filmmakers, activists and the audience from 5pm to 6:30pm. Sunday the CIFF will wrap up its first annual event with the screening of this year¹s winners in the feature film category. Check out the film screening schedule! ATTENTION FILMMAKERS : ENTRY DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2003. Entry forms and guidelines available at the Clinton Street Theater box office, or visit the CIFF website.	Part One Shows at 7pm Part Two Shows at 9pm General Admission $6
GAZA STRIP		- Aug 9
	United States, 2003, James Longley, DVD Part of the Cascade Independent Film Festival An extraodinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. Filmed in verite style, without narration. Also featured: Palestine is Still the Issue Review of GAZA STRIP	Shows at 9pm General Admission $6
HELL'S HIGHWAY: The True Story of Highway Safety Films		- Aug 11 - 17
	US, 2003, Bret Wood, video Exploring a fascinating lost chapter in twentieth century pop culture, HELL'S HIGHWAY revisits the shock-value driver's ed films that haunted American teens throughout the 1960s and '70s. Films such as Signal 30 (1959), Wheels of Tragedy (1963) and Highways of Agony (1969) have become mythical to those too young to have seen them... and like a half-remembered nightmare to those who had been scarred by their graphic imagery. Review of HELL'S HIGHWAY	Shows at 7pm and 9pm General Admission $6
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW		- Every Saturday
	The Clinton Street Theater has been showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night (except for foul weather, holidays, etc.) since April 1978, which makes it the longest running RHPS in the WORLD! For more info, check out www.rockypdx.org	Shows at Midnight General Admission $6

------------------------------------------------------

Copyright © Clinton Street Theater
The Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., Portland, OR
Events phone - 503.238.8899 or Message: 503.238.5588

site design by grumpyvoices.com