U.S. 1987
Joel Schumacher
35mm, 97min

Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful vampire at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.

Jason Patric, Keifer Sutherland, Corey Hiam, Corey Feldman.

Clinton Street Theater manager
- Seth Sonstein -
is having a birthday!

To celebrate, he is showing a couple of his favorite films, and breaking out the beer and pizza.

Come for the party,
stay for the movies.

Everyone's invited
(that's 21 and over).

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FLETCH
U.S., 1985,
Micheal Ritchie,
 94 minutes

Chevy Chase stars as I.M. Fletcher, an intrepid investigative reporter with a gift for improvised disguises.

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.

 

 

DON'T MISS THE RETURN OF THIS POPULAR EVENT! BRING YOUR CANINE TO THE CLINTON!

Yes, doggie films for an audience of dogs and their owners. The closest thing you can get to dog heaven.

Some notes from the 2002 event...

SCAT CATS!
(1936)
Apparently most of the dogs were illiterate as the title card did not get the response it deserved.

SHEP THE FARM DOG
(1940)
A nice black and white educational. This one elicited barks when Shep would run directly at the camera. That sort of action seemed to draw most of the dog's attention.

STEP LIVELY
(1919)
Harold tries to steal a hot dog and a Terrier makes his life miserable for the next ten minutes of this one reel short. This one got a big round of applause by the humans.

WASHEE IRONEE
(1934)
With Pete the Our Gang dog (and the rest of the cast).

TIPPY THE TOWN DOG
(1957)
An amazingly dumb and wonderful educational. A not too bright ten year old wheedles himself into the ownership of a stray mutt. The title character than runs off. The suspense is incredible as we follow the boy in search of Tippy and follow Tippy's near misses with automobiles. There is of course a happy reunion at the end.

Over three hours of great music from 1927 to 1964, from the justly famous (Bob Wills, Jimmie Rogers, Spike Jones) to the unjustly forgotten (Hank Fort, Smoky Rogers, the Korn Kobblers), and many, many others.

This show premiered at the Clinton for one night only on October 11, 2002. Over two hundred people showed up. They got over three hours of foot stomping great music and stomp, yell and yodel they did.

Well, it is coming back, only better with lots of new material. This show will have Hillbilly, Rockabilly, Cowboy, and Hawaiian. The best of the 2002 show will be there: Jimmie Rogers, Spike Jones, Bob Wills, The Korn Kobblers, Gene Vincent, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and more. For this show there will be new material including a fabulous Bill Haley number, Freddie Bell and Bell Hops, more Hank Williams Jr. (from 1964), more Smokey Rogers, and a band with a MUSICAL SAW! Really, the only thing missing from the earlier show was a musical saw. All sorts of other outlandish instruments will be seen including Ukuleles, banjos, washboard bass, soup kettle drums and hootnannies. If you d on't know what a hootnanny is, you'd better find out. They have to be seen and heard to be believed.

Dennis Nyback's site

 

 

100 minutes of vintage blues music on film.

It is shame that almost all of the great blues stars of the twenties and thirties were never filmed. That said, this show will feature the only known film of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, from 1929. It will have Billie Holiday, Jimmie Rushing, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Thelonius Monk, Lester Young, Count Basie, and a slew of other great musicians playing REAL BLUES. That is not to be confused with the electric blues that passes for blues music today. All of the films will be from 1929 to 1957. Oh, I'll throw in some vintage gospel music too!

Dennis Nyback's site

 

 

I'm not sure what World Music really means now. Globalization has homogenized world music. There was a time when music from different parts of the world was different wherever you went. This program will go back as far as 1929 and up to 1975. There will be music from Africa, Latin America, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Europe, Eastern Europe, and even the song Popeye the Sailor Man SUNG IN NORWEGIAN!

Dennis Nyback's site

U.S., 1983
Freke Vuijst
30 min

This 1983 documentary was made by a Finnish director about kids breakdancing in inner city New York. It's a brilliant look at what was then a completely new genre.

This film showed for one night in 1997 at the Clinton. A packed house watched and went home elated. It was never distributed in the US.

IMDB site

 

 

16mm, 110min

Join local film geek Greg Hamilton on an exploration of the oft-forgotten (and occasionally endured) minature masterpeice - the movie trailer.

This rare private collection of 16mm movie trailers and television spots (from the 30's thru the 70's) is making it's Portland debut.

A must for cinephiles and
pop culture junkies.

U.S., 1979
Allan Arkush
35mm, 93min

25th Anniversary!

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns
because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell, who loves the music
of the Ramones. A new principal, the rock music hating Miss Evelyn Togar, is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records, the students take over the high school, joined by the Ramones, who are made honorary students. When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do so, which leads to an explosive finale.

IMDB site

 

 

 

 

 

 

BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL
Japan, 2003
Yudai Yamaguchi
35mm, 87min

Tak Sakaguchi is a student with extraodinary baseball talent that has sworn off the sport. He moves to a new school where the principal has but one dream, baseball victory...which he believes he is about to achieve until he discovers his opponents are a team of zombies renowned for not leaving their opponents alive at the end of a game. Can he be persuaded to join the team and help them achieve victory?

Japanese Zombie Baseball!

Battlefield Baseball Site

and

LIVING HELL
Japan, 2000
Shugo Fujii
35mm, 90min

An old woman and her granddaughter are the sole survivors of a horrendous crime which wipes out an entire
family. They find solace under the roof of far-removed relatives. The family's son, confined to a wheelchair, has a terrible premonition when the two women arrive, which will be verified in the most horrifying way. The boy is made to suffer sadistic games, which will make his life a living hell...

The most disturbing Japanese film EVER!!! Never before released in the USA.

Living Hell website

U.S., 1968,
George Romero,
96 minutes

RARE PRISTINE PRINT OF
THIS HORROR CLASSIC!

Seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which
includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of young lovers, and an African-American man, try to keep their sanity as the living dead try
endlessly to enter the house. The only way to stop the zombies is to burn them or issue a severe blow to their heads. Radio news reports tell of the plague taking over the eastern United States, while the ever-decreasing band of survivors rapidly loses ground in the battle to both keep peace
with one another and stay alive.

IMDB page

U.S., 2004
Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally
68 min

 FINAL WEEK!

HELD OVER FOR A THIRD WEEK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

"Hijacking Catastrophe goes beyond simple Bush-bashing to paint a horrifying portrait of organized U.S. imperialist expansion and public deception stretching back to the early Reagan era."
Daily Variety

"As sober and scarifying as a pilfered confidential file."
San Francisco Bay Guardian

“…a more-serious-than Moore indictment of U.S. policy in Iraq.”
San Francisco Chronicle

A powerful new documentary about the neoconservative roots and political effects of the Bush Administration's response to the 9/11 terror attacks. 

 Featuring commentary from novelist Norman Mailer; Chalmers Johnson, whose prophetic book Blowback became an international best-seller after 9/11; Noam Chomsky; Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld; globalization theorist Immanuel Wallerstein; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams; former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter; retired Army Special Forces Sergeant Stan Goff; Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Air Force, ret.). 

8pm screening on 8/13
with special events
and speakers

8/14-19
Shows at
7:30pm and 9:30pm

8/20-26
Shows at
7pm

8/27- 9/2
Shows at
5:30pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

USA., 2004,
Robert Greenwald,
78 minutes

Director Robert Greenwald will be in attendance for the premiere and will host a Q&A session after the film.

Premiere
show 8/15
at 7pm
(Sunday)

General
Admission
$6

USA., 2004,
Robert Greenwald,
78 minutes

HELD OVER FOR A FOURTH WEEK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

"A must-see movie, no matter what your politics are."
- Christian Science Monitor

"Scathing!"
- Hollywood Reporter

"An obsessively
researched expose'."
- New York Times

Gathers interviews from media watchdogs and former Fox News employees to expose a conservative and deceptive agenda posing as "fair and balanced" journalism. 

Features an appalling montage of pundit Bill O'Reilly telling guests to shut up; repeated efforts to paint Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as weak and waffling, while President Bush is captured in respectful, reverent images; and management memos dictating language, subject matter and point of view.

9/10 - 9/16
Shows at
7:30pm

General
Admission
$6

Tuesday
Admission
$4

USA., 2003,
Robert Kane Pappas,
84 minutes

"Refrains from preaching to the choir, but if its biting analysis proves true, the film is unlikely to ever be presented to the general public."
- Variety

"Enlightening, at times disturbing, and always provocative."
- LA Times

"Those who've never thought about these issues may be in for the shock of their lives."
- San Francisco Chronicle

From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn’t, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media. Are Americans being given the information a democracy needs to survive or have they been electronically lobotomized? Has the frenzy for media consolidation led to a dangerous irony where in an era of more news sources the majority of the population has actually become less informed?

Film website

USA., 2004,
Robert Greenwald,
86 minutes

Former CIA Analyst and "Uncovered" commentator Ray McGovern, will be hosting a Q&A following the 7pm Portland premiere.

McGoven's 27-year career at the CIA (Kennedy to GHW Bush) included chairing the National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’ Daily Brief (PDB). 

Premiere
show 9/3
at 7pm
(Friday only)

General
Admission
$6

USA., 2003,
Robert Greenwald,
86 minutes

HELD OVER FOR A SECOND WEEK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

"A sober and devastating critique of Bush's foreign policy."
- Time Magazine

"Greenwald's cinematic legal brief is thorough, dispassionate and damning."
- The LA Daily News

"A must-see for every American who cares about their country."
- Screen Daily

Interviews with varied U.S officials and experts offer a deconstruction on the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq in the wake of 9/11.

Film website

Japan., 2003,
Takahashi Miike,
129 minutes

Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.

Film review

USA, 2004,
Paul Kermizian,
105 minutes

There are 1400 breweries in the USA, the majority of them are small colorful establishments making beer in styles both traditional and radically new. Yet the makers of three brands control over 80% of the market. These
corporations use money and muscle to dominate the industry through advertising
and distribution. Leaving little room in the bars and on store shelves for the smaller local brewers. As most brewers cannot sell their beer nationally, five friends hit the road to seek them out. They leave New York in a mini
van with the quest to visit 38 breweries in 40 days and drink local craft beer.

The film is Sponsored by Rogue. We will have a beer license Fri and Sat (17th & 18th)night, and we will be serving Rogue Beers and Ales. There will be free giveaways, raffles, and good times for all.

Film website

USA., 2004,
Robert Greenwald,
78 minutes

In an effort to educate members of the punk community to take action, question what they read, and as punk icon Jello Biafra states, “become the media” - Punkvoter.com has arranged a special screening and discussion of Robert Greenwald’s movie “Outfoxed” to kick off their Rock Against Bush Tour.

Q&A session after the film with ex-Fox News Employee Clara Frenk.

Members of Anti-Flag will also be in attendance!

Shows
at 11pm
(Friday only)

General
Admission
$6

USA, 2004,
Kelly Duane,
90 minutes

HELD OVER FOR A SECOND WEEK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!

If you've ever wondered what a single person can do against the relentless onslaught of development, wait until you see the charismatic and enigmatic David Brower push the 1964 Wilderness Act through Congress, and then go on to save the Grand Canyon from damming and help create Redwoods National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. With a playful visual aesthetic, a cool alt-country soundtrack, and hand-held wilderness footage from as far back as the 1930s, Monumental documents the golden age of American environmentalism, when Brower took the Sierra Club from a regional hiking group into a national political force. Seen through Brower's own eyes--he was an accomplished filmmaker --a 1956 raft trip down Glen Canyon, before its damming, evokes the awful sadness of losing public land we've failed to protect. And in period footage of Brower's early rock-climbs--done in sneakers, with hemp ropes--and of his training of the 10th Mountain Division and participation in their victory against the Nazis in the high Alps, Brower emerges as an unlikely and inspiring national hero.

Director Kelly Duane and Barbara Brower will be in attendance for Q & A on
Sept 24 -25th.

Film website

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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