🎶Summer beavs make me feel fine🎶 Our sixteenth encore screening of @hundredsofbeavers takes place June 25th at @centralcinema! Our friends at Central Cinema are generously helping us keep the beavers gnawing away while we search for a new home. 60% of ticket sales go to our relocation fund! “Steroidally swollen with gags and smarts.” Guy Maddin https://grandillusioncinema.org/film/hundreds-of-beavers-at-central-cinema/ (fb)

“When is a film not just a film? When it’s a cultural and sociological icon like DESERT HEARTS.” Lydia Marcus, The Advocate We’re kicking off Pride Month with a 40th anniversary screening of Donna Deitch's landmark classic! June 3 at our NW Film Forum popup. Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, DESERT HEARTS, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new: the younger, free-spirited Cay (Patricia Charbonneau)--touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, DESERT HEARTS beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor. https://grandillusioncinema.org/film/desert-hearts/ (fb)