Screening the Jeff Buckley documentary tonight, if anyone wants to come be sad.

Oregonians have only a day left to sign up for health care coverage through Oregon’s health insurance marketplace website, or they will have to wait until next year to get covered. ​Open enrollment using the marketplace ends at midnight Thursday, Jan. 15.

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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have shot two people in Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The shooting took place at 2:18 pm on Southeast Main street, but the victims, one male and one female, were found at 146th and East Burnside minutes later.

We have two fundraising screenings this month. ZOOT SUIT (1981) this Saturday benefits Pueblo Unido PDX and MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1991) benefits Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. Moreover, ICE must be abolished.

Stories from inside Alabama’s prison system, told by those living them. We’re proud to host a free community screening with @safetyandjustice.bsky.social of The Alabama Solution: January 19 – 4 pm – Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social. Panel discussion to follow. RSVP: dsnp.co/BCHmXK

A tremendous performance from one our great idiosyncratic actors! RIP. Jan. 9 at @cstpdx.bsky.social

We’re proud to host a free community screening of The Alabama Solution, a film exposing the crisis inside Alabama’s prisons. January 19 – MLK Day – 4 pm – Clinton Street Theater. Followed by a panel discussion. RSVP: dsnp.co/BCHmXK #TheAlabamaSolution @cstpdx.bsky.social

Most anticipated film of the year, for us anyway. Can't wait to bring this one to Portland. cstpdx.com/event/blknws...

Happy New Year! Vol. 4 of our Color & Sound series is back this January. Times and tickets: cstpdx.com/color-sound-...

As we celebrate the end of the year that The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50, five independent theaters around the world reflect on the strange journey that has the raucous musical keeping the moviegoing experience electric. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/2U4

That's it for us this year. For a single screen cinema, we show a lot of different films over twelve months. If you're interested in seeing what some of them were, we keep this @letterboxd.social account kinda, sorta up to date: letterboxd.com/cstpdx/films/ Thanks for all the support. See you soon.

If there's legal precedence to win $1,000,000 from the cancellation of a free event at a 200~ seat venue, then we're about to be fucking rich.

Preview of what's coming up in January: www.southeastexaminer.com/2025/12/colo...

That crackling fire on your TV is great, but if you're looking for something other than yule log to gaze at this holiday season, give OPB's "Slow TV" a whirl. Enjoy a beautiful sunset in Astoria or watch steelhead jump in the Umpqua River. Consider it a gift from us to you.

Interesting video; great note to check out Laura U. Marks's book "The Skin of the Film." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...

In partnership with @vimeostaffpicks.bsky.social, we take a look at what the Letterboxd community has to say about their ten must-see selections for the Best of 2025. Read more on Journal: boxd.it/2TK

Re-upping in case some folks didn't see it the first time. Holler if you'd like to attend.

Bring back the Nightmare Elk, you cowards.

Everyone badger @iwriteok.bsky.social to do a live podcast recording at our venue. We gotta get in nice with Netflix too, you know.

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

If you work in local journalism and would like to come to this screening for free, hit us up. And thank you for your service. 🫡

One of my all-time favs, @cstpdx.bsky.social, Dec. 15

Coming soon to a world near you . . . Blood 4 Oil 2: Venezuelan Boogaloo - "This time, it's stupider."

Sure, you could go to other theaters. But how many of them will swear at you before the film begins?

WTO/99 is a reminder of people power and how the state's response shocked the community. Only the most cynical activists expected to be gassed. When it happened, it brought a huge coalition into the streets. Today, that level of police violence occurs weekly without triggering similar solidarity.

Portland music is on fire right now. Nolan Parker pulled together the Top 10 Portland Albums of 2025, spanning hardcore, hip-hop, ambient, slowcore, and everything in between. 🎧 ⬇️

Really, really hoping Netflix doesn't limit repertory screenings from the vast Warner Bros catalog, as has happened with other studio acquisitions and mergers.

John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’

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"And to 'cyber' meant sex."

Last chance to get a discount pass to see all the films in our John Carpenter series. cstpdxtickets.square.site/product/john...

Unironically one of the best line reads in the history of cinema. She should have won an Oscar.

THE HARDER THEY COME (1972) was the first film we chose to start our annual Color & Sound series; it's a foundational work of global cinema. Worth searching out, if you haven't seen it.

Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

Thinking of blowing this whole thing up and turning it into a restaurant critic page with a running leaderboard titled THOSE WHO FELL OFF. There would be a cryptocurrency gambling component.

Made this for people to get mad at. You're welcome.

Trying to decide if it's worth sitting through a five hour film surrounded by hundreds of foot fetishists.

Oh hell yeah, looks like we're gonna have a normal one here in the US of A today.

"Y'all wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch here fell out?!"

If you think about it, it's actually quite brave of us to be showing three absolute dog shit movies in a row this week. No other movie theater is as committed to the bit as we are.

Cloudflare is down, so our website is down. It'll probably be back up later. Or it won't, and we'll go live in the woods. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Oregonians right now.

Em really killed it with this poster. You can hire them for other art projects: emaldehyde.univer.se

Did not have "Pope Makes Impassioned Defense of Cinema" on this year's bingo card.

LSP is screening a documentary about Bookchin and Rojava on Sat, Nov. 22 at Noon. You don't need to RSVP or anything, just show up.

Sad to see; it's really difficult to run an independent venue. Great spots can't run on good vibes, they need consistent support.

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)

Touching photo of the two parties coming together to end the federal shutdown.

Paramount purchasing Warner would be devastating to repertory theaters like ours.