TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE HISTORIC CAPITOL THEATER, HOME OF THE OLYMPIA FILM SOCIETY:

(DIRECTOR TERRY GREEN HAS BEEN WRITING SOME GREAT COVERAGE OF THIS EVENT:)

http://www.filmnotes.net/2012/12/06/taking-a-stand/

http://www.filmnotes.net/2012/12/02/ngnm-screening-to-help-free-dissidents/

A SPECIAL ONE TIME BENEFIT SCREENING OF THE AWARD WINNING MOVIE “NO GOD, NO MASTER”
TO SUPPORT THE IMPRISONED OLYMPIA GRAND JURY RESISTORS
KATHERINE “KTEEO” OLEJNIK AND MATT DURAN

 WITH DIRECTOR TERRY GREEN Q & A VIA SKYPE plus TESC faculty PETER BOHMER and an info shop!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012
7:30 PM

ADMISSION: SUGGESTED DONATION $5-15

AT THE  HISTORIC CAPITOL THEATER

home of the OLYMPIA FILM SOCIETY

ANNOUNCING
A SPECIAL ONE TIME BENEFIT SCREENING OF THE AWARD WINNING MOVIE “NO GOD, NO MASTER”
TO SUPPORT THE IMPRISONED OLYMPIA GRAND JURY RESISTORS
KATHERINE “KTEEO” OLEJNIK AND MATT DURAN

 WITH DIRECTOR TERRY GREEN Q & A VIA SKYPE plus TESC faculty PETER BOHMER and an info shop!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012
7:30 PM

ADMISSION: SUGGESTED DONATION $5-15

AT THE  HISTORIC CAPITOL THEATER

home of the OLYMPIA FILM SOCIETY

First Ever Olympia Film Society Projectionists’ Film Festival! (movies made by your friends and neighbors who are projectionists at OFS!)

Saturday, June 30 at 9:00pm at the historic Capitol Theater!

SUGGESTED DONATION $5-$10! (admission includes late night heavy metal aerobics challenge!)

We at the Olympia Film Society, are for the first time inviting the general public to witness what happens when cinema worker and dream machine become one. Yes, it is the First Ever Olympia Film Society Projectionists Film Festival! Projectionist/filmmakers from behind the controls of the Olympia Film Society’s optical jets will project rarely seen and some never before seen movies by well known and unknown OFS projectionist/filmmakers  such as: Kanako Wynkoop, Marina Gagarina, Lisa Hurwitz, Ed Glidden, Paul Potasnik, shawn stapleton, Isaac Overcast, Diane Froelich, Jacob Sunday, Joaquin de la Puente, Andrew Ebright and possibly others that hadn’t committed yet at the time of this printing. Sequential moving images and sounds of love, apocalypse, redemption, science, music, poetry and absurdity are on the menu for this summer evening. This promises to be a film screening unlike others you have seen because of the aestho-psychic feedback loop created when projectionists project their own projections. Be amongst the first to witness this new techno-biological phenomenon via the twin neo-kinetoscopes pulsing from the Kino-Dream control room at OFS! Don’t be left behind by cinema history…MAKE CINEMA HISTORY!!!

 

 

 

Personal recommendation to see the film, "Bully," now playing for one more day at the Olympia Film Society Capitol Theater:

It's a touching and moving story about the effects of bullying on several different families from different communities. I saw the film tonight. At one point it sounded like perhaps almost all of the people in the theater (with one of the best weeknight attendances I have seen,) were sniffling with tears.

The film provides case examples to illustrate the problem of bullying in schools. And it might even also lead people to ask questions and think about how bullying can also go on outside of schools, even in a larger societal context.

There are two more screenings, today (Thursday) only, a matinee at 4pm and then again at 9pm.

More description, including the two minute thirty second trailer, on the OFS website here and also the film official website is here.

An interesting juxtaposition aside, as this film plays while the "Gd Hates" people from Topeka, Kansas are in town.

And in case you haven't heard, via the Satan Worshippers here on Olyblog, or elsewhere, there is a big rally planned for tomorrow morning at Olympia High School, and there are also plans to meet the hate troupers at the County Auditor's office. More information about these events, on Facebook: here.

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream—I saw this film documentary earlier today. I felt inspired. It runs until Thursday, please, see it for yourself. Here's a link to the Olympia Film Society Calendar.

The 2011 feature documentary film by Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher is timely, and relates to and to some measure directly draws upon the Occupy Wall Street movement. It tells the story of the war waged by financial elites in order to maintain and expand their tremendous wealth. It shows how both the Republican and Democrat political parties have been accomplice to this war against the working class, the poor, and those living with impairments.

Recommended is full employment, re-instating regulations on the investment (and financial speculations) industry, and public campaign financing.

Here's a trailer:

And link to the website: www.heist-themovie.com

walking downtown singing a song the other night, happy mood, on the way to the Olympia Film Society at the Capitol Theater to see the film, "Margin Call." I enjoyed the film. An interesting portrayal of some of the depraved behavior in the financial industry, and the misbehavior of one fictional company. I can imagine that truth might be stranger than fiction on this —and that some of the real behavior and politics in and around the financial industry might even be richer than what was shown in this film.

It also has been recommended to watch the MF Global hearings on CSPAN.

The Olympia Film Society is hiring a Festival Director and Programmer for the 28th annual Olympia Film Festival!

Applications are due in the OFS office Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 5:00pm!

The 2011 Olympia Film Festival is in need of your creative
energies! OFS is now accepting applications for two positions:
Director and Programmer for our 28th annual Olympia Film
Festival this November 11th through 19th. Both are part time
temporary paid positions starting in May and lasting through
December. Ever had the desire to share your creative vision for
film and film-related events with our community? Here’s your
chance!

Drop off or mail your application to The Olympia Film Society, Attn: Festival Hiring Committee, 416 Washington St. SE # 208, Olympia, WA 98501,

or e-mail all required materials to jobs@olympiafilmsociety.org.

APPLICATION MATERIALS ARE ATTACHED OR SEE THE URL BELOW:

More information can be found on our website at:
 http://www.olympiafilmsociety.org/about/job-opportunities

REMEMBER, IT'S YOUR FESTIVAL MAKE IT HAPPEN!

THANKS!

"STRAIGHT TO HELL...RETURNS" with director Alex Cox (y'know "Repo Man", "Sid and Nancy", "Walker" etc) in attendance for intro and Q&A!!

TONIGHT DEC 11TH, 9PM AT THE CAPITOL THEATER!!!

Starring JOE STRUMMER, DICK RUDE, SHANE MacGOWAN, ELVIS COSTELLO, DENNIS HOPPER, GRACE JONES, JIM JARMUSCH!!!!

Soundtrack by THE POGUES, THE COASTERS and members of THE CLASH, THE WEIRDOS, THE CIRCLE JERKS and more!!!

This post apocalypse western set during the coming coffee wars will be screened in a new directors cut with the director in attendance to answer for it! Shot in the Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah setting of Almeria Spain.

Be there...natch!

"This is a movie that was never supposed to be made. Cox was on his way to Nicaragua to document a music tour, but due to escalating political tensions in the region, the tour was scrapped. With nothing else to do, Cox and the musical acts from the tour made Straight to Hell instead. The end result is a manic, punk rock take on the western.In 2010, Cox restored his offbeat classic. In the process he added some new effects and inserted six minutes of footage that was edited out of the original. The product of these adjustments is Straight to Hell Returns, the film Cox intended" -culture mob

trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyWxkL5hUI

Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
Saturday night at the Capitol Theater (206 5th Ave SE in downtown Olympia)
Program begins at 6:30 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEukg9T9S2E

more information:

Tickets: OFS members $5, General $8, Youth $3
(360) 754-6670 www.olympiafilmsociety.org
Benefit for Youth Peace Volunteers of Afghanistan

You can watch Youth Peace Volunteer videos at Our Journey to Smile.

You can watch a related Olympia FOR’s TV program from anywhere on the world at olympiafellowshipofreconciliation.blip.tv. Search past episodes for Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.

This event is a project of the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation with help from the Olympia Film Society.

These are two excellent films. I saw them earlier tonight, and I think it was good to see them juxtaposed with each other. Shows run two more days, with showings on each this Tuesday and Wednesday.

I thought Capitalism was the best Michael Moore movie I have seen yet, and I have seen most of his films.

The Yes Men are hilarious, I was totally cracked up quite a few times. Andy and Mike have real potential to spark a serious movement of education about and resistance to the essential destructiveness that exists within the current establishment.

If you have seen these films, you probably understand what I am getting at. If you haven't seen these films, then you really owe it to yourself and everyone else to get to the theater and see them.

The status quo of harmful competition doesn't stand a chance against an educated and activated populous.

Links to descriptions from the Olympia Film Society website:

Capitalism: A Love Story

The Yes Men Fix the World