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Alaska's only independent Art House movie theater still (occasionally) showing 35MM films and (always) serving real butter! Since 1998
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Remembering silent screen actress, writer, and director Mabel Normand, who died on today's date in 1930. She was 37 years old.

Well this is horrific. It’s bad for Alaska and it’s bad for tourism. Mendenhall Glacier:

The annual Oscar-Nominated Short Films are always among the most popular of the year. This year’s batch is par for the course…some greats, a couple interesting picks, and always one that just confounds We play all three categories—Animation, Live Action, and Documentary—over the next three weeks

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you: digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

The River That Untangles One's Mind, screening at the APK this weekend.

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, won Best Picture at the Venice film Festival and plays weeknights: -Mon 6:30pm w/ Open Captions -Tue 5pm -Wed 4:30pm w/ Open Captions & 6:30pm -Final show Thur 5pm

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Worth noting that Slocombe, who lensed such memorable scenes of Nazis getting destroyed in INDIANA JONES, had shot documentary footage of Poland in 1939—and narrowly escaped. www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

A new film by Pedro Almodóvar shouldn’t be an announcement, it should be a CELEBRATION! Especially when it stars two absolute icons!! We only have it for one week, and it opens today, shows at 4:30 and 7pm

Feeling like we need to host rage karaoke movie sing-alongs where everyone can collectively scream JUST YOU WAIT HENRY HIGGINS or whatever and gorge on butter-soaked popcorn while temporarily ignoring every single other thing

Thinking about this grand fellow this week, on the 8th anniversary of his homegoing There is no Gold Town without Lisle Hebert, whose humanity and compassion continues to inspire us every day. You can watch his short documentary, CRAZY, here on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8oOa...

For your week’s planning purposes. NOTE: OPEN CAPTION SHOWS TODAY, SAT. & SUN

Great day today. Saw The Brutalist in 70 mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Catch it there if you can. Amazing Movie!

Very very excited to be able to bring this to town. Plays this weekend, and Mon-Wed at 6pm, (Tue show with Open Captions) and Thur at 4pm played with Open Captions

Last two chances to see the now-Oscar-nominated Best Actor Coleman Domingo in SING SING, today at 4:30 & 6:30

Just four more chances to catch SING SING before it has to go. Today & tomorrow, 4:30 & 6:30 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/m...

See which of these posters we have in our window, then stay to watch this phenomenal film. Plays Sat & Sun at 2pm, 4:30pm, & 7pm, then all of next week Mon-Thur at 4:30pm & 6:30pm

Final show of BABYGIRL tonight at 6:30pm then we open the award-winning FROM GROUND ZERO tomorrow, with shows at 6:30pm on Fri, Sat, and Sun, and a Sun matinee at 4:30pm

@princessdaazhraii.bsky.social @verastarbard.bsky.social @xhunei.bsky.social are all amazing writers on the show!

FROM GROUND ZERO It’s not as hopeless and dreary as you imagine it. People at the end of the world hold onto hope more than anyone else

Are we getting this?? Like if you’d come watch it

Let’s try this again this year, but better

Trying to remember to not neglect this little place, so you’re the first to peep some Xmas Xtravaganza pics!

We got a little mention in the New York Times, but then again, who hasn’t? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/t...

RAD ALL ABOUT IT… HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS HAS RETURNED TO IT RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE BIG SCREEN!! Alaska’s curious beavers have read the news want they’re storming the place!! Shows this Sat at 4pm & 6pm. BYOW (bring your own wood!) @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social

Bluesky exclusive For the first time on the internet MAJOR SPOILER ALERT: The Hundreds of Beavers TITLE DROP At the Oriental Theater Milwaukee 12.5.24

@hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is showing again tonight at 6:30 and Saturday at 4 and 6 We pretty much retired from posting on that other site but thanks a million for this incredible shout out!

HUGE GALLERY WALK CLOSET BLOWOUT! Tommy Bahama shirts? Got ‘em! Ferragamo shoes? Of course! We got sequins? DUH! Vintage double-knit poly? OK! Italian leather cowboy boots, anyone? Come git ‘em! Do we have corsets, dresses, & gowns, size 4-24? HELL YEAH WE DO! And so so so much more Starts at 4:30pm

Fritz Lang was born 134 years ago today, on December 5, 1890

Sometimes, right now, it feels like soullessness is the order of the day. But movies are still—for now—made by human beings. And they're one of the most extraordinary means humans have for talking to one another. Here 10 of my favorites, from a very tough year. time.com/7199444/best...

@hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social waltzes back across our screen tomorrow and Thursday at 6:30pm and Saturday at 4pm & 6:30pm!

Gearing up for our huge poster & costume sale next, Fri. Dec 6 for Gallery Walk, starting at 4:30pm! Hundreds of movie posters from the last 12 years all gotta go, along with closets of outfits, costumes, sewing gowns, shoes, boots, props, and more shoes and performances, including so many sequins!

WHERE MY ANORA PEOPLE? One of the top reviewed movies, short-listed for a best pic Oscar nom, directed by Cannes Palme D’Or winning SEAN BAKER! What more do you want? Five chances to not regret missing it: Sat. at 4 & 7, Sun. at 4 & 6:30, Tue. at 6:30 NOTE: Matinees are shown with OPEN CAPTIONS

“It’s ironic that the very thing these tourists are seeking is being destroyed by the industry that’s bringing them here.” #Alaska #AlaskaSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Did you know that fewer than 20 people could hold conversations about daily topics in the Lingít language? That there are six remaining master-level birth speakers? That you can take Lingít classes for free at UAS and through Haa Tóoch Lichéesh and Tlingit & Haida? You can watch online, too.

Screening today at 6pm & 8pm respectively MISSING FROM FIRE TRIAL ROAD is free to the public and sponsored by ANS Glacier Valley Camp 70 in honor of Native American Heritage Day

Sometimes a pumpkin pie is more than just a pumpkin pie… Sometimes it’s a harbinger of things to come… @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social is sneaking back onto our screen next week!!