Ditch those boring bowl games and start the new year off in style with 12 hours of badass super-soul flicks - including a guaranteed showing of Mean Johnny Barrows with Fred Williamson.

Special guest appearences by: Mean Joe Green, Billy Dee Williams, Mercury Morris, Richard Lawson, and many, many more.

$5 gets you in (and out) all day.
Don't miss it!

US, 1999,
David Fincher,
35mm, 139 minutes

Based on Portland writer Chuck Palahniuks' raucous novel of a man brutally confronting his fears and dissillusionment with the world.

Filled with dark humor and compelling performances by Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter.

Don't miss this opportunity to catch it again on the big screen!

Experimental film and music fans, check your head at the door!

Join us for an evening of film and music as Portland's own improv rock band - Canoofle - lay down the live score for a collection of debut film material.

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

US, 1983,
Brian De Palma,
35mm, 170 minutes

20th Anniversary Print.

In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American
Dream. One of them found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana but the world will remember him by another name...Scarface.

Starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia and F. Murray Abraham.

STREET FIGHTER

US, 1974,
Shigehiro Ozawa,
35mm, 90 minutes

Starring Sonny Chiba, who plays a street smart killer for hire who will stop at nothing to get the job done his way. Full of gory, over-the-top action and outragreous scenerios.

The first movie to be Rated X (now NC-17) for violence.
You get the idea. If you haven't seen this one, check it out!

RETURN OF
STREET FIGHTER

US, 1974,
Shigehiro Ozawa,
35mm, 88 minutes

More of the same badass
Sonny Chiba action.

Dennis Nyback will return to Portland for one week starting January 16 to present six nights of rare animation, and one night of dada audience participation chaos at the Clinton Street Theater.

Dennis Nyback first showed films at the Clinton Street in 1997, during a tour of West Coast cities. During his tenure as co-programmer of the Clinton from 1999 through 2002, Portland audiences were the first to see film shows which later travelled around the world.

Friday, January 16

STRANGE AND VICIOUS
WAR CARTOONS
There is a video tape called Cartoons Go To War. It does not contain most of the
cartoons in this program. They are kept on the hidden back shelves of film warehouses. This is American history at the primal level. A nation at war using every weapon at their disposal including Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck and Popeye.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm

Saturday, January 17

OFFENSIVE ANIMATION
There was a time when ethnic
humor was a staple of popular entertainment. Dialect comedians were on every Vaudeville bill. Cartoons from the thirties and forties reflect
the times they were made. This will be an equal opportunity offensive show. Featured will be cartoons targeting blacks, Arabs, Chinese, Japanese, women, and a whole bunch of others.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm

Sunday, January 18

CARTOONS TOO VIOLENT
FOR CHILDREN
For many years such programs as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation have been packing auditoriums. Much of what they show are recent cartoons full of sex and violence created to gross out today's jaded audiences.
Back in the 1930s and 1940's there was no intent to gross out the ticket buyers. With the hardships of the depression and the world at war, violence was close at hand to movie goers. These cartoons gleefully celebrated mayhem without it being the sole purpose of the
toon. Most of them will never again be shown on television.

Cap'n Cubs Scraps the Japs
(Ted Eshbaugh 1944) No wonder this cartoon hasn't been seen for years. Cap'n Cub is cute little bear who machine
guns Hell out of the Japanese.

The Screwball Squirrel
(Tex Avery 1943) Tex's zaniest character, the Screwy Squirrel, appeared in five cartoons before being dropped due to the overt sadism of the psychotic main character. This is the best of the bunch.

He Was Her Man
(Friz Freleng 1937) A long suppressed cartoon due to its extreme violence toward women.

Fish Tails
(Jack King 1936) A friend of mine once told me this cartoon gave her nightmares as a child.

Pluto's Judgement Day
(David Hand 1935) When Matt Groening said: "I was a sensitive child. Disney films are terrifying", he backed up his
statement by showing Pluto's Judgement Day, a 1935 cartoon in which Pluto is tried in his dreams by a hellish court of cats. It's pretty nasty, and probably would scare a small child... 'Pain, torture, humiliation, and a happy ending. That's what children's entertainment is about.' The creator of the Simpsons ought to know.

Dizzy Red Riding Hood
(Dave Fleischer 1930) Original fairy tales were full of violence and gore. In this early Betty Boop cartoon, Bimbo the dog kills the wolf, skins him, and wears the wolf's skin in order to
get into bed with Betty.

The Screw Driver
(Walter Lantz 1941) Ooooh, the early Woody Woodpecker was a sadistic son of a bitch. He was later toned down, but here he lets it all hang out.

Bad Luck Blackie
(Tex Avery 1949) No one made more violent cartoons during the golden age of animation than Tex Avery. That is why he has two cartoons in this show.

Hare Ribbin
(Bob Clampett 1946) This is original version of this cartoon with the homicide ending that was changed to suicide a month or so after it came out. Now they won't even show the suicide version because of the violence. This one is really shocking.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm


Monday, January 19

CORPORATE
ANIMATION AMOK
The very rarest animation are those cartoons made not for
movie theaters but for industrial promotion. Of course they wanted to entertain, but they also had a product to sell. Artistic exercise meets shameless hucksterism. This program will include DOOMSDAY FOR PESTS, a fabulous Jerry Fairbanks production from 1952 promoting paint
laced with DDT; HAPPY LITTLE BLUEBIRD VALLEY a wonderful 1958 pro-electrical power film showing how dams will actually make the birds and wildlife happy; MAN ON THE LAND, a film made by UPA (Gerald
Mcboing Boing, Mr.Magoo, etc) showing the wonderful benefits of petroleum and extolling the unlimited quantities and great
future of low prices; and a couple of dozen animated TV commercials from the
fifties and sixties.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm


Tuesday January 20

JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ CARTOONS
When Max Fleischer paired Betty Boop with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong, he was not just making cartoons, he was making history. The
interaction between black Cab and white Betty brought threatening letters from the Ku Klux Klan. This program will feature appearances of
the many jazz greats both live and in caricature including Cab,
Louis, The Mills Brothers, The Boswell Sisters, Don Redman, Fats Waller, and many, many more.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm


Wednesday, January 21

CULT, ODDBALL, AND RUBBER HOSE TOONS
Everyone has seen cartoons made by the Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker) and Paul Terry (Mighty Mouse). They
rarely get to see works by the orphan animation studios such as Van Beuren, Ub Iwerks, Otto Mesmer, Charlie Bowers , and others. Some of the most curiously weird animation was done by these studios in the
"rubber hose" period of the early 30's and late 1920's. During this time characters had no noticeable skeletal structure and bopped and jived to a synchronized beat. Among the titles are IT'S A BIRD, THE
SUNSHINE MAKERS, TECHNOCRACKED, MYSTERIOUS MOSE, FELIX WOOS WHOOPEE, and more.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm

Thursday, January 22

DADA DADA DADA BRING YOUR OWN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Thursday January 22 Celebrate Chinese New Year by grabbing a musical instrument, noisemaker or a washtub and spoon, and make some noise at
DADA DADA DADA night at the Clinton. What could be more dada than the audience performing the soundtrack to great films from the dada and
surrealist masters. Every year brings a bigger and weirder crowd. Fist fights are narrowly avoided. Anarchy truly rules. Films by Luis Bunuel,
Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Legar, Jean Renoir, and many others.

One show only at 8:00

Dennis Nyback's website

US, 2003,
Johnathan Kessleman,
35mm, 85 minutes

Ahh.....Jewsploitation.

Adam Goldberg is the Hammer, a private investigator, a certified-circumcised private Dick. The Hammer takes it to the streets when Damian Claus (Andy Dick), decides that he is going to destroy Hanukah forever. An over the top battle of good versus evil.

For more info, check out www.thehebrewhammer.com

U.S, 1987,
Sam Raimi,
35mm, 85 minutes

A young man named Ash (Bruce Campbell) takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.

U.S, 1984,
Jeff Kanewi,
35mm, 90 minutes

20th Anniversary Print - only one in circulation within the USA!

When lovable nerds Gilbert and Lewis embark on their freshman year at Adams College, little do they realize the perils that await them. They're beset with taunting by the jocks of Alpha Beta fraternity. Joined by the aptly named Booger and the violin-playing Pointdexter, the nerds soon realize they must form their own fraternity in self-defense. Soon the tables are turned as the nerds employ high-tech warfare against the jocks.

US, 2003,
Satoshi Kon,
35mm, 92 minutes

It's Christmas in Tokyo.

Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many odd and funny adventures along the way.

"A thoroughly absorbing comic melodrama that just happens to be gorgeously animated."

Shawn Levy - 
The Oregonian

For more info, check out
the Tokyo Godfathers website

US, 1979,
Peter Sykes,
35mm, 117 minutes

This is the 1979 Warner Brothers Classic in big 35MM.

A MUST see for anyone planning on seeing the Mel Gibson remake: The Passion of Christ. Come to The Clinton to learn the truth about Jesus! (as told by Warner Brothers.)

US, 2003,
DVD, 85 minutes

From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Geneva, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.

While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. "The Fourth World War" brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist. The product of over two years of filming on the inside of movements on five continents, "The Fourth World War" is a film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history. Directed by the makers of "This Is What Democracy Looks Like" and "Zapatista", produced through a global network of independent media and activist groups, it is a truly global film from our global movement.

Film premieres on February 26th - with filmmakers in attendance. A Q&A will follow the film.

For more info, check out
Big Noise Films website

US, 2004,
Amie Siegel,
35mm, 92 minutes

Empathy is a feature-film that explores the tricky intimacy between psychoanalysts and their patients. Empathy interweaves a fictional narrative, documentary interviews, screen tests and a parodied tv documentary of the
analyst's favorite piece of furniture - the Eames Chair.
A provocative mosaic of genres that looks at power, manipulation and the promise of empathy, patient and therapist disclosure, performance and identity, authority and gender, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and the boundaries between truth and fiction.

 
"PROVOCATIVE! Poet Amie Siegel’s seriously playful essay on the art and craft of psychoanalysis is blatantly several films in one—psychological melodrama, historical essay and shrink verité!”

The Village Voice

Empathy website

Shows at
7pm and 9pm

Matinee
4pm
 (Sat - Sun)

General Admission
$6

Tuesday Admission
$4

No 9pm show
on 1/5

THE PORTLAND MERCURY WINTER PROZAC FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE CLINTON!

Another winter helping of prozac-laced cinema is on the way! Featuring hits from the 80's and beyond - washed down with your favorite beer.

2/6 - Fast Times at
Ridgemont High
Bow at the temple of Jeff Spicoli and Mr. Hand.

2/13 - Caddyshack
Remember when Chevy Chase was funny?

2/20 - Escape From
New York
Behold the god-like one-eyed pirate countenance of
Kurt Russell.

2/27 Rushmore
It's Max Fischers' planet, we just live on it. Bask in cinematic overachievement.

3/5 Dirty Dancing
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey grind the night away.

3/12 Better Off Dead
"I want my two dollars!"

All shows at
10pm
and are
21 and over!

General Admission
$6

Dennis Nyback returns to the Clinton Street Theater with his latest controversial show!

Get the full effect of Karl Rove's unblinking eye with this paranoia festival collection of youth-scarring educational "fear" films, Hollywood political thrillers and GOP propaganda.

 
Friday, March 12

I KNOW WHY YOU'RE AFRAID

Death Zones (1974)
I'm Feeling Scared 1978)
Strangers by Sid Davis (1959)
Story of Menstruation (1946)
Head Lice (1970)
Girls Beware (1968)
Live and Learn (1951)
Mechanized Death (1961)
Caught In A Rip-Off (1974)

When I first showed this program a woman thanked me for including The Story of Menstruation. She said it had terrified her when she saw it in sixth grade. It is possibly the most seen educational ever made, being shown from 1946 into the early 70's. Jack Stevenson told me that seeing Mechanized Death in driver training class did not make it want to be a safe driver, it made him never want to get into an automobile again. Death Zones has to be seen to be believed. Sid Davis used his own daughter as a victim in Live and Learn. She learns not to run with scissors.
Shows at: 7:00pm

Saturday, March 13

THE PARALLAX VIEW
This film is very convincing in the way it shows that sinister powers may be at work in society, without anyone being able to uncover them. An excellent political/thriller which surpasses the classic 'Manchurian Candidate'." It was made by Alan J Pakula in 1974 starring Warren Beatty. It was shot in Seattle and uses the Space Needle to great effect.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:15pm

Sunday, March 14

DRUG AND BOOZE EDUCATIONALS
LSD Trip or Trap (1968)
The greatest LSD film.

Drugs: Killers or Dillers (1972)
made by Matt Groening and Tim Smith, featuring Matt Groening

PCP You Never Know (1978)

Drugs and Booze (1974)

All My Tomorrows (1969)
One of the most creepy educational films ever made.

The Day I Died (1966)
An all-time classic.

The Last Date (1949)
Stars Dick York as a doomed hot rod high schooler many years before he became Samantha's husband on Bewitched.

Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm


Monday, March 15

LITTLE MURDERS
This comedy film was way ahead of its time. It was written by Jules Feiffer and directed by Alan Arkin. It shows a paranoid society so afraid that every one has a gun and all homes are barricaded fortresses. People kill people randomly. Alan Arkin, Donald Sutherland, and Elliott Gould are the stars.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:30pm


Tuesday March 16

THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT
This is being shown on thrifty Tuesday (all seats four bucks) because it really isn't worth six. That said, it has its fans and this will be the only time anyone will ever be able to see it on the big screen.

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:15pm


Wednesday, March 17

IS THAT A BOMB IN YOUR PANTS, OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?
This program could also be called Terrorism Light and Dark, or even Terrorism Can Be Fun. Three of the films in the program use terrorism as a joke. Two more are meant to be serious but one comes off as laughable and the other makes valid points. One of them is truly sobering. 

Japanese Relocation (1942)
Made by the U.S. Government to explain to the public how American citizens can be rounded up and put in concentration camps without being charged with a crime. 

What You Need to Know about Biological Warfare (1952)
The Challenge of Ideas (1960) 
They were both made by the U.S. Government when Communism was the big menace.

Cops (1919)
Featuring Buster Keaton as a man mistakenly believed to be a terrorist who is then chased by every cop in New York City

The Blow Out (1936), Porky Pig gets the better of a mad bomber who is terrorizing a city.

Ali Baba Bound (1937), again with Porky Pig, but this time battling Arabs including one suicide bomber.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm

Thursday, March 18

FUCK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: Secrets from their own Propaganda
What is curious about these films is how little the ideas have changed.

The Day Business Died (1974) is a masterpiece of paranoia. It is about a man who wakes up one morning to find there is no electricity, water, television or radio. The only thing that works is his car and that is because it runs on gas.

Attack On America (1980) was made to put forth the idea that Jimmy Carter had allowed Fidel Castro to arm all of Central America and that only Ronald Reagan could stop them from being invading us.
Shows at: 7:00 and 9:00pm

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Dennis Nyback first showed films at the Clinton Street in 1997, during a tour of West Coast cities. During his tenure as co-programmer of the Clinton from 1999 through 2002, Portland audiences were the first to see film shows which later traveled around the world.


Dennis Nyback's website

US, 1984,
Rob Reiner,
35mm, 82 minutes

The mockumentary legend rises again for it's 20th Anniversary!

It's 1982, and the legendary British metal band Spinal Tap is attemping an American comeback tour accompanied by a filmmaker (Rob Reiner). The resulting documentary, interspersed with performances of Tap's music and profoundly hilarious lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis - culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.

There will be NO Matinees for Spinal Tap. We will be having a kids matinee day on the 19th and 20th.

Join us for three nights of
independent film and after-film discussion with the filmmakers.

3/26 - THE GOOD LOT
Shot entirely in Portland, this drama is a rare glimpse at one man's struggle to confront his past and realize his future.
There will be an exclusive "Filmmaker's Panel" after the film, where the director and members of the cast and crew will be answering questions and discussing how to make a feature film and what the current state of independent filmmaking is. Special "Good Lot" prizes will also be given out this evening.

Movie Website

3/27 - BUMS PARADISE
A gripping, moving film
about a bunch of transients living on an island in the San Francisco bay (some as long as 10 years)

(Q/A with filmmaker and one cast member to follow screening)

Movie Website

3/28 - BREWSTER MCGEE
A comedy from Canadian Film Maker Ross Munro. Said to be the funniest Canadian Movie of all time. Shot on 16mm,
and is reminiscent of "Clerks" in many ways.

Director Ross Munro will be on hand for a Q/A after the screening.

Movie Website

The Good Lot
shows at
8pm

General Admission
$8


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Bums Paradise
shows at
7 and 9pm

General Admission
$6

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Brewster McGee
shows at
7 and 9pm

General Admission
$6

Japan, 2001,
Takahsi Miike,
35mm, 113 minutes

Sound of Music meets Clockwork Orange, The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

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

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