Event
Opening Night Gala of the 27th Annual Olympia Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT
Friday 11.12 5pm
Sponsor: The Olympia Food Co-op
Come one, come all! Come rain, come shine! The time has come for our Opening Night Gala! We are
closing down the streets to welcome the caravans from distant lands at our Carnival of Oddities and
Wonders! When the sun sets our streets alight with the lanterns of the Illuminated Procession, watch the
streets fill with dancers, freaks, psychics, and geeks! Open your mind, open your senses! Open your
palm to the most gifted seer of all time! Open your ears to the girl who sings backwards! Acrobats!
Living cartoons! Don your finest and bring the family! Be awed. Be awesome.
Pay the piper and come inside! As you ascend the stairwells to the mezzanine, watch as the walls are
transformed by the magic of White Haze, OlympiaâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs premier art wizards. At our bar, we will be
offering a variety of thirst-quenching Fish Tale Brewery selections, and you must try the incredible
healing powers of OlympiaâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs own Magic Kombucha! If you dare, seek out the Bearded Lady, and ask
to sample her vegan cupcake. At 7:30, steal away to your darkened theater seats and gasp aloud as you
are presented with an opening stage show that will cast a very powerful spell! Romanteek has written
us a song for this very occasion! The Tallhouse Arts Consortium will put you in an ecclesiastical trance
with their incredible aerial show. The worldâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs tiniest dancer will dance. The worldâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs most beloved
movie will play.
ItâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs a night to be had! So, do not miss it, for this carnival comes but once in a lifetime! Grab your
tickets, a tambourine, and your spectaculars! This is your Opening Night!
METROPOLIS / Dir. Fritz Lang / 1927 / Germany / 145 min. / HDCAM
Fritz LangâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs 1927 epic, universally known as a masterpiece, was the prototype of virtually all urban
dystopia/sci-fi films to follow, from Blade Runner to 2001 to Dark City to Minority Report. It has now
been restored with 25 minutes of previously-lost footage, allowing the world to see all but 8 minutes of
LangâÃ,ÂÃ,Âs original 153 minute cut âÃ,Â" even if you've seen it before, you ainâÃ,ÂÃ,Ât seen nothinâÃ,ÂÃ, yet! In an
undefined future time in the epic-scale city of Metropolis, the ruling class lives in Deco/Moderne
splendor at the top of enormous skyscrapers, while the impoverished working class are virtual slaves
below ground tending the machinery that makes the world above possible. Catching an accidental
glimpse of beautiful Maria sneaking workersâÃ,ÂÃ, children into a rooftop garden, Freder, son of MetropolisâÃ,ÂÃ,Â
ruler, is besotted and follows her back down into the depths and a shocking revelation. Returning home
to confront his father, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes an evil scientist with a lifelike
âÃ,ÂÃ,ÂfemaleâÃ,ÂÃ, robot, orgies and riots, a flood, and violent mob man-hunts. âÃ,ÂÃ,ÂMixing European avant-garde
techniques with Hollywood mass-cult extravagance, MetropolisâÃ,ÂÃ, staggering architectural scale and
near-musical choreography seem surprisingly contemporary in an age that has far from tired of seeing
the future in harshly dystopic terms.âÃ,ÂÃ, Ã¢Ã,Â" Ed Halter, The Village Voice
-Passport Series - Print Source: Kino
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LocationCapitol Theater
206 5th Avenue SE
Olympia, WA 98501
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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