The Academy Theater

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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**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.