Bum Fights, Spocktoberfest and Frank Capra: This Week's Movie Revivals

By AP KRYZA

Every week, AP Kryza of AP Film Studies brings you the best revival screenings around town. This week, we gave you an exhaustive survival guide to Halloween at Portland movie houses. Here's the best of the rest. Most of these theaters serve beer. Plan accordingly.

  1. John Carpenter’s subversive sci-fi actioner They Live envisioned a world where mankind is brainwashed by alien overseers. It was way ahead of its time back in 1988, and I’m not just talking about the epic bum fight between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David. Kiggins Theater. Opens Friday, Oct. 24.
  1. Brewmasterpiece Theater is pairing Ninkasi with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for an event dubbed “Spocktoberfest,” which includes a costume contest. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, Oct. 24.
  1. For those seeking the complete antithesis to Halloween, the NW Film Center is rolling out a double feature of Frank Capra feel-goodery: the classic 1934 romance It Happened One Night (4:30 pm) and the 1937 fantasy Lost Horizon (7 pm), an anti-war film transporting plane-crash survivors to Shangri-La. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Saturday, Oct. 25. 
  1. For the second week in a row, the immortal Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense makes a Portland appearance. This should happen every week. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday, Oct. 24 and 7:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 26.
  1. Go-to organist Dean Lemire provides live music for a screening of Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. Hollywood Theatre. 1 pm Sunday, Oct. 26.
  1. Reel Feminism presents A Knock Out, the story of British boxer Michele Aboro. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, Oct. 27. 

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