PLANKTON WAT and
VIK WHISTLE
an evening of experimental live music and film
Tuesday, August 18
Steadfast in the pursuit of musical transcendence, Portland musician Dewey Mahood is one of the most versatile and prolific musicians in the modern psychedelic underground. As PLANKTON WAT (Thrill Jockey Records), he has explored the outer reaches of folk and synthesized drift since the mid-aughts, and his fluid compositions apply ethereal, elastic textures to grounded rhythmic grooves that recall the cosmic and the earthly in equal measure. For this show Mahood contours his melodic guitar playing into wholly transfiguring pieces to accompany classic experimental films.
Chico’s VIK WHISTLE shares the evening with new experimental/psych music and video.
Tickets for this special event are $15 - walk up at the door, day of show (no advance tickets). Doors open 7:30 show 8pm.
SORCERER
William Friedkin
- 121 minutes
- 1977
- English
AUGUST 21 - 22
A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic The Wages of Fear was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the New Hollywood’s boldest auteur statements. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 --- 7:30pm
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 --- 8pm
No ads - films begin at posted showtimes
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ANIMAL CRACKERS
Victor Heerman
- 97 minutes
- 1930
- English
AUGUST 22 - 23
The pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy ANIMAL CRACKERS is an outrageous satire of aristocratic, high society, an endless lampoon of the old Gilded Age ruling class. The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor. The film's anarchistic humor and surrealist elements forever influenced comedy filmmaking and earned praise from avant-garde critics such as Antonin Artaud and filmmakers like François Truffaut and Jim Jarmusch. Hooray, hooray, hooray!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 --- 5:30pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 --- 2pm
No ads - films begin at posted showtimes
SLEEPBOMB live score to FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
Thursday, August 27
SLEEPBOMB is a San Francisco-based cinematic post-metal/doom project focused on full, original scores for genre films. Ranging from heavy doom riffs to dreamy shoegaze, dark soundscapes punctuated with shimmering guitar and ethereal vocals, SLEEPBOMB has been exploring experimental sounds and forms informed by fellow travelers Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sunn 0))), Ulver and Swans, among others. Settling on a drone influenced style of post/doom metal as the overarching theme while exploring other genres as appropriate for the film’s particular style, they bring their new live score to the groundbreaking 1931 horror film FRANKENSTEIN. The film's innovative special effects, atmospheric direction, and Boris Karloff's sympathetic portrayal of the Monster made it a critical and commercial success, influencing the horror genre and popular culture significantly. A singular live musical experience that re-contextualizes this classic film.
Tickets for this special event are $20 - walk up at the door, day of show (no advance tickets). Doors open 7:30 show 8pm.
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WILD STYLE
Charlie Ahearn
- 82 minutes
- 1982
- English
AUGUST 28 - 29
In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone. The result was WILD STYLE, and to many viewers it was their first glimpse of the musical and cultural phenomenon called hip-hop.
In this unique hybrid of fiction and documentary, the story of lone graffiti artist Lee "Zoro" Quiñones trying to achieve success on his own terms is brought to vivid life with support by Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite, Sandra "Lady Pink" Fabara and Patti Astor, and with historic music performances by such luminaries as Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, The Fantastic Five, The Cold Crush Brothers and The Rock Steady Crew. To create the score, Chris Stein (Blondie) would collaborate with Brathwaite to produce the actual breakbeats to be used in the film, an inspired decision that would provide a source of obsession among crate diggers for decades to come. Endlessly sampled, imitated and debated, WILD STYLE is the truest portrait of the hip-hop scene during its early years, and remains one of the most important music films ever made, now in a new restoration!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 --- 7:30pm
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 --- 8pm
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A PLACE IN THE SUN
Victor Heerman
- 122 minutes
- 1951
- English
AUGUST 29 - 30
Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, an aimless WWII veteran determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters is the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman’s professional and romantic prospects, setting in motion a series of tragic events. Widely considered one of the finest works of America cinema (hailed by Charlie Chaplin as "the greatest movie ever made about America”) George Steven’s masterwork is an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 'An American Tragedy'. Presented in a new restoration, A PLACE IN THE SUN is a true glittering gem from Golden Age Hollywood with Clift, Taylor and Winters are at their finest.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 --- 5:15pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 --- 2pm
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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
Jane Schoenbrun
- 106 minutes
- 2026
- English
STARTS SEPT 4
Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is due for resurrection. And one young director (Hannah Einbinder) is more than up to the task. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress (Gillian Anderson), the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, delirium — under threat from the spear-wielding Little Death. Winner of the Queer Palm, this transformative Cannes favorite leads its protagonists to true fulfillment, encouraging us to ask how we can reach our own.
Showtimes TBA