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WE'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW AT DARKSIDE CINEMA (BECAUSE WE SUCK LESS) This Friday, May 29, from 6pm to 8pm, you can get a bucket of Darkside popcorn and a couple of canned sodas for only $10. The $10 deal includes one bucket of freshly made popcorn PLUS your choice of: • two canned sodas or • one bottled soda or • two small candies or • one large candy. Additional candy/pop is available for sale and can be added to your order. * All sales limited to items on hand. WILL IT COST ME MY FIRSTBORN? You can pay with cash or credit card or one admission ticket from your previously purchased Darkside ticket book—or we'll accept a Darkside gift certificate and mark it with the adjusted value accordingly so you can use the rest of it another time. HOW DOES THIS WORK? This is for in-person ordering and pickup. We have a new sales counter just inside the door at the sidewalk. One person will be admitted at a time. If there is a line, it will run south toward Coffee Culture and we ask that you stay 6 feet apart from others in the line. After you make your purchase, a popcorn elf will bring your order down to you in our waiting area. * IMPORTANT: The upstairs areas are not open to the public at this time, so please do not use the stairs or elevator. WHAT'S NEXT? This Friday is a trial run to ensure we can make this safe for everyone. If this works out, we’ll expand the program. WHAT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS? Please text (541) 250-0441 if you have questions. Thank you for your continued support of the Darkside and our community. We love you back.
While we are temporarily closed you might want to: • Watch a virtual cinema movie (links below) • Buy a T-shirt and get free delivery or pickup! • Donate to help us prepare to re-open when it's safe • Support other local businesses in our community We love you and thank you and promise to stay true to our motto: We Suck Less. Every Day.

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Starting Friday, May 29 • PAPICHA • REGGAE BOYZ • WILD HONEY - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • SOCKEYE SALMON. RED FISH - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF Holding over • MILITARY WIVES • THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF- with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • WOMEN OF EARTH- with Das Filmfest and OSIFF Other stuff • Subscriptions to MAGNOLIA SELECTS help the Darkside Coming soon • YOURSELF AND YOURS - June 5 • SHIRLEY - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS • THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • HILL OF FREEDOM • FOURTEEN • WOMAN ON THE BEACH • AVIVA - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE

STARTING FRIDAY, MAY 29

Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema presents PAPICHA –NR May 29 - June 18 Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri starring in Wes Anderson’s upcoming ‘The French Dispatch’), an 18 year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War to keep her from experiencing a normal life and going out at night with her friend Wassila. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to fight for her freedom and independence by putting on a fashion show. • Festival de Cannes 2019 – Un Certain Regard • Algeria’s official submission for Best International Feature Film Oscar >> NYTimes glowing review In French and Arabic with English Subtitles Drama Rent for 3 days $10 How to watch: You will be able to watch the film for 3 days on any computer, laptop, ipad, chromebook or other mobile devices. IMPORTANT: The only way to watch this film on a television is to mirror or cast from one of the above devices to your television. Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema presents REGGAE BOYZ –NR May 29 - June 18 Jamaica has one of the highest murder rates in the world. But on November 16, 1997, when Jamaica's national soccer team – a.k.a. the 'Reggae Boyz' – qualified for the 1998 World Cup, not a single bullet was fired in the country. As the Reggae Boyz embark on their 2014 World Cup campaign, an amateur player named 'Tuffy' Anderson dreams of playing on the national team. Tuffy works in a steel factory by day and plays in the local amateur league by night, refusing to give up his dream of one day playing on the national team. On the soccer field Jamaica's big dream comes crashing to a halt. After a devastating losing streak, the coaching staff resigns. To revitalize the mission, Jamaica hires the colorful Winfried Schäfer, a journeyman coach who is known in his native Germany as 'Winnie Wahnsinn' ('Wacky Winnie'). Seeking knowledge about the local culture and sensing how much music and soccer are intertwined in Jamaica, Winnie meets the local newcomer band 'Nomaddz' and visits Bunny Wailer - the lone survivor of 'Bob Marley and the Wailers'. Bunny introduces him to the 'benefits of herb' and suggests "putting Tuffy on the team will change your fortunes." Winnie puts Tuffy on the team who promptly rewards him by scoring a last-minute goal that keeps the campaign alive a little longer. While Jamaica's World Cup dreams don't come true in the end, Tuffy's goal and his courage to keep a dream alive, against all odds, inspires Jamaicans of all stripes and sets the national team on a path to success that culminates with Winnie coaching Jamaica to their first-ever Gold Cup Final. Audience Award Winner, Brooklyn Film Festival 2019 Documentary Rent for 3 days $12 >> How to watch Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema, OSIFF and Das Filmfest present WILD HONEY –NR May 29 - June 11 This debut feature from artists Ava Porter and Farhad Akhmetov presents a rare view of the ethnic groups of five regions across Russia: the Bashkirs of the Ural Mountains, the Cossacks of the Caucasus, the Molokans of the Southern Steppe, the Ashkenazim and Krymchaks of the Black Sea, and the Altaians of Central Siberia. While on the surface these groups appear to differ, varying in location, religion, and language, they are united through their connection to music — for all of them, song is an expression of everyday life, each note a trace of the ancestral past, each beat a conduit to the future. Ultimately, the harmonious universality of musical expression is revealed through this rapturous ethnographic look at traditional folk music. Documentary Rent for 7 days $6 >> How to watch Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema, OSIFF and Das Filmfest present SOCKEYE SALMON. RED FISH –NR May 29 - June 11 Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is born in Kamchatkan waters and spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters - to give offspring, start the circle of life, and die. It is an inexhaustible resource that feeds billions of people on the planet, restored every year! But soon, we may find ourselves facing the unimaginable: humans will exhaust the inexhaustible! Directed by Dmitriy Shpilenok and Vladislav Grishin. Subtitled Russian Documentary Rent for 7 days $4 >> How to watch Back to top ↑

HOLDING OVER

Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema presents MILITARY WIVES –PG-13 May 22 - June 25 “Hugely engaging, enormously moving.”- Daily Mail MILITARY WIVES centers on a group of women from different backgrounds whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with their loved ones’ absences, they come together to form the very first military wives choir, helping each other through some of life’s most difficult moments, and quickly find themselves on an international stage. Peter Cattaneo (THE FULL MONTY) directs Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan in this feel-good crowd-pleaser inspired by true events. Comedy Rent for 3 days (Darkside Cinema will receive a portion) $4.99 >> How to watch Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema, OSIFF and Das Filmfest present THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF –NR May 22 - June 5 Desperate for answers about the theft of her two paintings, a Czech artist (Barbora Kysilkova) seeks out and befriends the career criminal (Karl Bertil-Nordland) who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls. Documentary In English and Norwegian Rent for 3 days (Darkside Cinema will receive a portion) $3.99 >> For help with issues related to watching Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema, OSIFF and Das FilmFest present: WOMEN OF EARTH–NR May 13 - 31 A young Brazilian woman travels to indigenous, quilombola (communities founded in 19th century by runaway slaves), and rural communities, in search of the ancient wisdom of traditional midwives. WOMEN OF EARTH (Mulheres da Terra) is a feature documentary film that follows a young Brazilian woman with a dream of becoming a midwife who journeys through indigenous villages and rural communities in search of traditional midwives and the wisdom that they share. The film is directed by Mayara Boaretto (who has since been trained as a midwife), Isadora Carneiro, and Oscar-nominated director Kátia Lund. Gisele Bündchen has been a generous supporter since the conception of this initiative. Documentary Donations benefit the work of RiseUp & Care and Darkside Cinema. If you cannot afford to donate, contact us at info@dasfilmfest.us for a free ticket. >> Contact the host if you have issues related to watching the film Back to top ↑


Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema, OSIFF and Das FilmFest present: BETWEEN TIDES–NR May 12 - 31 The multi-ethnic Bonin Islanders grew up on an island in the Pacific Ocean as Japanese nationals, under a U.S. Navy occupation following the Second World War. Having obtained at least a narrow view of American life that was complicated by their own mixed heritage, these islanders faced the painful task of having to accept the reversion of the islands to Japan in 1968. BETWEEN TIDES explores the stories of a postwar community torn apart and re-bonded by history. Documentary Rent for 7 days (Darkside Cinema will receive a portion) $8 >> How to watch Back to top ↑

OTHER STUFF

Sign up for Magnolia Selects streaming service to benefit Darkside Cinema Go to MagnoliaSelects.com and use code MOVIE463 to subscribe for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Darkside Cinema will receive 100 % of the net proceeds from your subscription through June 30th, 2020—a great help to us during this time. Additional terms and conditions apply; see MagnoliaSelects.com. Offer valid through December 31, 2020. We thank you! Back to top ↑

COMING SOON

Darkside Cinema Virtual Cinema presents YOURSELF AND YOURS –NR June 5 - 25 “Immensely satisfying… A wise and gently absurdist allegory about how best to approach relationships.” –Scott Tobias, Variety "An essential chapter in the big book of Hong... For those who haven’t yet been introduced to this singularly idiosyncratic Korean auteur, Yourself and Yours is as good a place to start as any.” -David Ehrlich, IndieWire One of Hong Sangsoo’s most delightful comic mysteries is now available in the U.S. When painter Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk) learns that his girlfriend, Minjung (Lee Yooyoung), was recently seen having drinks with another man, he can’t help but question her about it. It doesn’t go well and they part on bad terms. The next day, Youngsoo tries to find her, but can’t. As he wanders and frets, Minjung has a series of encounters with other men. But to them it seems she’s not herself. Featuring a supporting cast of Hong regulars including Kwon Haehyo, Yu Junsang and Kim Euisung, YOURSELF AND YOURS is a pleasing puzzle full of mistaken identity, excessive drinking and lots of he-said, she-said. As the rumors pile up, Hong asks: In a relationship, how important is it to know everything? Subtitled Korean Drama/Comedy OPENS JUNE 5: The film will open in New York on the same day and will be part of a month-long Hong celebration in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center. Back to top ↑



More Coming Soon Titles: Please check back for more details • SHIRLEY - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS • FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • HILL OF FREEDOM • FOURTEEN • WOMAN ON THE BEACH • AVIVA - with Das Filmfest and OSIFF • JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE

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About Darkside Cinema Open since April 2005, Darkside Cinema is the only independently owned and operated movie theater in Corvallis. Except for this COVID-19 mandated closure, WE ARE OPEN EVERY NIGHT, playing independent, foreign, and art films you won't find at the local megaplex. We are more responsive than our website design! Because We Suck Less. Every Day. Ask us about inexpensive on-screen advertising for your local business or non-profit organization. And, when we re-open, ask us about renting the theater for birthday parties or private shows or meetings or seances or practical jokes or ... ? We proudly support these organizations and hope you will, too: