The Academy Theater

**July Revival Announcement**

A new month brings a fresh roster of films for our Revival Program! This July we're celebrating rebels, outlaws, monsters, and cult icons with a lineup that stretches from spaghetti westerns and arthouse nightmares to punk classics and kaiju chaos.

Let's dive in with our programming team for notes on what's to come…

July Program Notes:

– Our annual western series returns this July! Featuring one film per week, this theme provides a rebellious backbone to our program with 4 contrasting films, beginning with Clint Eastwood’s ruthless 90s epic UNFORGIVEN (1992) for the week of July 4th! Next up, we journey back in Eastwood's career to his starring role in Sergio Leone's stylish masterpiece FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965), the second film in his magnum opus Dollars Trilogy. We leave Eastwood in the dust in our third week and come roaring back to the 90s with indie-darling EL MARIACHI (1992), the directorial debut of Robert Rodriguez, full of energy, action and mayhem. We conclude the month by gathering around the jailhouse with Dean Martin, John Wayne and Ricky Nelson, Old Hollywood Technicolor epic RIO BRAVO (1959) directed by Howard Hawks!

– Storming in from Japan comes cult classic GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971) (aka GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER), the most bizarre entry in the Showa Era! And that's not all… we’re teaming up with Cosmic Monkey Comics for three special screenings (7/3, 7/6, 7/8) where you can snag an exclusive Godzilla vs. Portland comic!

– Our International Series continues with HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968), Ingmar Bergman's haunting descent into isolation and artistic obsession. One of the director's most unsettling works, it remains a masterclass in atmospheric terror.

- Our monthly Deep Cut Series presents..SAVAGE STREETS (1984)!  Linda Blair stalks the scummy streets of LA in this 80s cult revenge blast! Drenched in sleazy neon slime aesthetics and a peak mid-80s rock soundtrack, Blair is forced to take the law into her own cross-bow wielding hands…

That's it for our July Program folks, stay tuned for more special event announcements in July!

- The Academy Theater Programming Team

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A huge thank you to all of the vendors and attendees who joined us for last night’s VIDEO PARTY.

We’re incredibly grateful to help curate and hold space for Portland’s vibrant film community—whether you came to shop, socialize, or celebrate a shared love of physical media.

Until the next one!




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**July Announcement Coming Soon!!**

John Travolta reminding you to check back soon for our July Revival Program drop! Several titles to celebrate blockbuster season and light up the Big Screen all month long!! Get excited!! 🎬🍿🎆

**Starts Friday, July 3rd**

We typically wait to announce titles until our monthly program is already out in the open (keep an eye out in the next couple days 👀) but we couldn't wait to share that we will be playing one of our absolute favorite Godzilla films - GODZILLA VS HEDORAH (aka GODZILLA vs THE SMOG MONSTER outside of Japan)!

Additionally, Academy Theater has partnered with Cosmic Monkey for three extra special nights of Godzilla fun, and you’re invited! 15 bucks gets you entrance to Nicolas Cage, Roger Ebert and Adam Wingard’s fave Toho flick, and a FREE copy of CMC's exclusive Godzilla vs Portland comic to boot!

What can we say about GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH? It’s a cult classic, and for good reason. As Criterion puts it, the film was “intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan. It finds the King of the Monsters fighting an alien life form that arrives on Earth and steadily grows by feeding on industrial waste. Director Yoshimitsu Banno infused the film with equal parts ecological horror, humorous monster antics, and sixties psychedelia straight out of San Francisco, making for a truly unique—and divisive—entry in the series.”

If that description isn’t enough for you crazy kids, the film finally settles all arguments about Godzilla’s flying prowess. You’ll have to see it to believe it, and you have three opportunities to do just that and grab your free AWESOME Godzilla vs Portland comic – July 3rd at 7PM, July 6th at 7:30PM and July 8th at 7:30PM.

Please keep in mind that while the film is showing every day throughout the week of July 3rd to July 9th, these three previously mentioned showings are the ONLY times you can grab a comic alongside the film. All other showtimes will be normal screenings of the film at our usual ticket prices.

And as for the comic, get this: the exclusive cover is by legendary artists Michael and Laura Allred, and once they’re gone, they’re GONE. Don't miss your chance!

This is just the start of our partnership with Cosmic Monkey, so stay tuned for more comic and film fun!

Tickets are available NOW at academytheaterpdx.com!

**Playing through Thursday, June 25th**

The rise and fall of an ambitious dreamer unfolds in Stanley Kubrick’s visually staggering Barry Lyndon, now playing at the Academy.

Lit by candlelight, framed like an 18th-century painting, and brought to life through breathtaking cinematography, Barry Lyndon is a masterclass in beauty and the illusion of social ascent.

Whether it’s your first viewing or your fifteenth, this is the kind of cinematic experience that belongs on the big screen.

Grab your tickets now on our website. 🎩✨

Back of the box:
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.

**Starts Friday, June 12th**

Sweeping Hollywood tragedy A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) arrives at the Academy Theater screening through Thursday, June 18th. This month’s Femmes in Film selection celebrates the magnetic performances of Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters—two actresses frequently reduced to familiar Hollywood molds who shatter them completely through tenderness, desperation, and commanding emotional power.

Drawn from a real-life murder case, the film revisits a story shaped by violence against women through the aching perspective of its female characters. Taylor and Winters elevate every moment, leaving behind performances that continue to define the emotional legacy of classic American cinema. Romantic, crushing, and impossibly beautiful, A PLACE IN THE SUN endures as one of the most heartbreaking films ever made.

Tickets and showtimes available now at academytheaterpdx.com!

Back of the box:
George Stevens’ stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s ‘An American Tragedy’ garnered six Academy Awards (including best direction and screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. 

George (Clift) is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Angela (Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl Alice whose dark secret threatens George’s professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, George is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.

Coming soon to the big screen.

Our Revival Program rolls on with a fresh lineup of cult favorites and classics. Head to our website for showtimes and tickets. Link in bio!! 🎬

**Playing Tonight Saturday, June 6th**

Tonight, Academy Theater is thrilled to host a special screening and VHS debut of local filmmaker Jacques Boyreau’s strange and singular Portland-shot horror film BLACK STRAWBERRY!

Released on physical media for the very first time courtesy of local tape label Video Hoarder, limited edition VHS copies of Black Strawberry will be available before and after the screening in the lobby — complete with an incredible set of Black Strawberry trading cards. We’ll also be hosting a vendor market featuring Video Hoarder, Jacques Boyreau himself, and a lineup of local VHS vendors and collectors.

The evening will kick off with an introduction from the director, followed by screenings of Boyreau’s shorts BLACK TERMINATOR and SOCCER SUSPIRIA, as well as Portland filmmaker Rocko Zevenbergen’s MEAT LOVERS.

Shot between 2008–2015, BLACK STRAWBERRY captures a grimy, uncanny vision of Portland that feels equal parts nightmare, time capsule, and regional oddity. Don’t miss the chance to experience this deeply weird slice of local horror on the big screen.

Market at 5:30 PM
Screening at 7:00 PM


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**Starts Friday, June 12th**

Beginning Friday, June 12th, we are beyond excited to partner with to bring Alex Phillips’ sleazy, blood-soaked erotic thriller ANYTHING THAT MOVES to the big screen at the Academy Theater! Supporting a contemporary genre film through repertory exhibition is always special to us, and we’re thrilled to showcase a bold new work backed by one of the most exciting labels in cult cinema preservation and distribution today.

“An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director Alex Phillips’ rust belt giallo continues his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery.”

The film follows s*x worker Liam and his girlfriend—partners in both business and pleasure—as they bike through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to their love-hungry clients. But when a string of grisly murders begins piling up, all signs seem to point back to the lovers’ bed. Produced in collaboration with cult home video powerhouse Vinegar Syndrome, the film also features appearances from Ginger Lynn and Nina Hartley, an intoxicating original score by Chicago artists Cue Shop, and lurid cinematography by Hunter Zimny that channels the grime and glamour of classic 70s exploitation cinema.

We’re honored to host a theatrical run for a film carrying the banner and can’t wait for audiences to experience this wild, sweaty, neon-drenched nightmare the way it was meant to be seen: loud and on the big screen.

Check out showtimes and grab your tickets now at Academy Theater!