Grand Illusion Cinema
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Tickets are selling fast for our Jan. 26 screening of HARD BOILED in a new 4K restoration! Don’t dilly dally. Mark your calendar and buy a ticket today!
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January 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Tickets are selling fast for our Jan. 26 screening of HARD BOILED in a new 4K restoration! Don’t dilly dally. Mark your calendar and buy a ticket today!
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Kristen Stewart's acclaimed feature-length directorial debut, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, plays Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us!
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January 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Kristen Stewart's acclaimed feature-length directorial debut, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, plays Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us!
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Here’s what some of our volunteers liked in 2025…
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Here’s what some of our volunteers liked in 2025…
Here’s what you all showed up for the most (meaning these made the most moolah) in 2025. You have good taste! Happy New Year and we’ll see you in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here’s what you all showed up for the most (meaning these made the most moolah) in 2025. You have good taste! Happy New Year and we’ll see you in 2026!
2025 was a very different year for the Grand Illusion. We had to move out of our home of 50+ years, but we kept screens bright across the city thanks to our volunteers and popup partners.
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
2025 was a very different year for the Grand Illusion. We had to move out of our home of 50+ years, but we kept screens bright across the city thanks to our volunteers and popup partners.
Deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU, plays Jan. 17 & 18 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us. Shortlisted for the Academy Award for International Feature Film.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Deeply moving, multigenerational drama, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU, plays Jan. 17 & 18 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us. Shortlisted for the Academy Award for International Feature Film.
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A new 4K restoration of John Woo's long-unavailable action masterpiece, HARD BOILED, plays Jan 26 at our NW Film Forum popup! Tix are on sale now!
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December 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A new 4K restoration of John Woo's long-unavailable action masterpiece, HARD BOILED, plays Jan 26 at our NW Film Forum popup! Tix are on sale now!
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE plays today, Sunday, Tuesday & Wednesday at NW Film Forum, presented by us for our 55th consecutive engagement! Advance tix recommended!
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December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE plays today, Sunday, Tuesday & Wednesday at NW Film Forum, presented by us for our 55th consecutive engagement! Advance tix recommended!
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“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Dread Central
The twisted reimagining of the controversial killer Santa classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, plays 12/11 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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The twisted reimagining of the controversial killer Santa classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, plays 12/11 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Dread Central
The twisted reimagining of the controversial killer Santa classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, plays 12/11 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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The twisted reimagining of the controversial killer Santa classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, plays 12/11 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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“The epiphany of movie sentiment and a transcendent experience.” @davekehr.bsky.social
Join us at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social for our 55th annual engagement of Frank Capra's holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24!
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Join us at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social for our 55th annual engagement of Frank Capra's holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“The epiphany of movie sentiment and a transcendent experience.” @davekehr.bsky.social
Join us at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social for our 55th annual engagement of Frank Capra's holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/its-a-w...
Join us at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social for our 55th annual engagement of Frank Capra's holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/its-a-w...
It’s still #GivingTuesday! Please consider supporting the Grand Illusion with a membership or donation.
A membership gets you a discount at almost all of our screenings. A donation will help us build an even grander Grand Illusion. We’re still looking!
grandillusioncinema.org/support/
A membership gets you a discount at almost all of our screenings. A donation will help us build an even grander Grand Illusion. We’re still looking!
grandillusioncinema.org/support/
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
It’s still #GivingTuesday! Please consider supporting the Grand Illusion with a membership or donation.
A membership gets you a discount at almost all of our screenings. A donation will help us build an even grander Grand Illusion. We’re still looking!
grandillusioncinema.org/support/
A membership gets you a discount at almost all of our screenings. A donation will help us build an even grander Grand Illusion. We’re still looking!
grandillusioncinema.org/support/
Portland’s Wyrd War visits on 12/13 to show FIRST BLOOD (1982) in a new 4K restoration! Ted Kotcheff’s action thriller is a masterclass of genre filmmaking & a dramatic meditation on post-wartime veteran PTSD. Screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Portland’s Wyrd War visits on 12/13 to show FIRST BLOOD (1982) in a new 4K restoration! Ted Kotcheff’s action thriller is a masterclass of genre filmmaking & a dramatic meditation on post-wartime veteran PTSD. Screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center.
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A twisted reimagining of the controversial classic, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT plays at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center on 12/11 at 730pm!
“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Mary Beth McAndrews, Dread Central
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“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Mary Beth McAndrews, Dread Central
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December 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A twisted reimagining of the controversial classic, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT plays at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center on 12/11 at 730pm!
“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Mary Beth McAndrews, Dread Central
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“…weird, wild, and a lot of fun.” Mary Beth McAndrews, Dread Central
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Thanks to @siffnews.bsky.social, @centralcinema.bsky.social, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Here-After, and Dirty Couch Brewing for hosting our popup screenings this year!
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks to @siffnews.bsky.social, @centralcinema.bsky.social, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Here-After, and Dirty Couch Brewing for hosting our popup screenings this year!
“Cattet and Forzani create a total cinema within REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND—not because they manage to replicate reality but because they manage to eradicate it.” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social, Slant
See it Dec. 3 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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See it Dec. 3 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Cattet and Forzani create a total cinema within REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND—not because they manage to replicate reality but because they manage to eradicate it.” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social, Slant
See it Dec. 3 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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See it Dec. 3 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center!
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Gotta light? TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN episodes 7 & 8 play tonight at the @siffnews.bsky.social Cinema Uptown at 7pm. It’s gonna be busy so arrive early to get a good seat and see the best episode on the Uptown’s big screen in 5.1 surround sound!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Gotta light? TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN episodes 7 & 8 play tonight at the @siffnews.bsky.social Cinema Uptown at 7pm. It’s gonna be busy so arrive early to get a good seat and see the best episode on the Uptown’s big screen in 5.1 surround sound!
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35MM PRINT! FUCK MY SON! is an X-Rated descent into demented comedy & maniacal horror. Only in theaters, never streaming!
Writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening! Creator Johnny Ryan scheduled to join on December 5th.
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Writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening! Creator Johnny Ryan scheduled to join on December 5th.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
35MM PRINT! FUCK MY SON! is an X-Rated descent into demented comedy & maniacal horror. Only in theaters, never streaming!
Writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening! Creator Johnny Ryan scheduled to join on December 5th.
grandillusioncinema.org/film/f-my-so...
Writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening! Creator Johnny Ryan scheduled to join on December 5th.
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We’re showing the new film from the visionary directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS), REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, Dec. 3 at 730pm at the @siffnews.bsky.social!
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November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
We’re showing the new film from the visionary directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS), REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, Dec. 3 at 730pm at the @siffnews.bsky.social!
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“A bright spot of sapphic representation in recent documentary film… suggests how you live your private life & love the people in it can be its own kind of artform.” Alison Foreman, IndieWire
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT plays 11/24 at our NWFF popup.
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COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT plays 11/24 at our NWFF popup.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“A bright spot of sapphic representation in recent documentary film… suggests how you live your private life & love the people in it can be its own kind of artform.” Alison Foreman, IndieWire
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT plays 11/24 at our NWFF popup.
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COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT plays 11/24 at our NWFF popup.
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Join us at NW Film Forum on 11/18 with @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social for our November member screening of MIRACLE MILE (1988) & the short film TARZANA (1978)! We'll be joined the writer/director Steve De Jarnatt for a conversation after the screening. Free for members, $10 at the door for non-members.
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Join us at NW Film Forum on 11/18 with @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social for our November member screening of MIRACLE MILE (1988) & the short film TARZANA (1978)! We'll be joined the writer/director Steve De Jarnatt for a conversation after the screening. Free for members, $10 at the door for non-members.
Join us for our Last Hurrah at Here-After next weekend. ❤️
We’re showing two new films shot on lush 16mm: erotic rust belt giallo ANYTHING THAT MOVES & campy fever dream FUCKTOYS!
It has been an amazing venue for popups. Thank you Here-After & Croc staff!
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We’re showing two new films shot on lush 16mm: erotic rust belt giallo ANYTHING THAT MOVES & campy fever dream FUCKTOYS!
It has been an amazing venue for popups. Thank you Here-After & Croc staff!
grandillusioncinema.org/series/last-...
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join us for our Last Hurrah at Here-After next weekend. ❤️
We’re showing two new films shot on lush 16mm: erotic rust belt giallo ANYTHING THAT MOVES & campy fever dream FUCKTOYS!
It has been an amazing venue for popups. Thank you Here-After & Croc staff!
grandillusioncinema.org/series/last-...
We’re showing two new films shot on lush 16mm: erotic rust belt giallo ANYTHING THAT MOVES & campy fever dream FUCKTOYS!
It has been an amazing venue for popups. Thank you Here-After & Croc staff!
grandillusioncinema.org/series/last-...
Directed entirely by David Lynch, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned by the shocking murder of their homecoming queen Laura Palmer.
The series plays 11/13–12/16 at cinemas across Seattle!
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The series plays 11/13–12/16 at cinemas across Seattle!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Directed entirely by David Lynch, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned by the shocking murder of their homecoming queen Laura Palmer.
The series plays 11/13–12/16 at cinemas across Seattle!
grandillusioncinema.org/series/twin-...
The series plays 11/13–12/16 at cinemas across Seattle!
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From @vinsyn.bsky.social Pictures comes the avant-gutter psychedelic dream ANYTHING THAT MOVES! The 2nd feature by Alex Phillips (ALL JACKED UP & FULL OF WORMS) is a gory, erotic thriller shot on fleshy Super 16mm.
See it at Here-After 11/21 at 930pm!
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See it at Here-After 11/21 at 930pm!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From @vinsyn.bsky.social Pictures comes the avant-gutter psychedelic dream ANYTHING THAT MOVES! The 2nd feature by Alex Phillips (ALL JACKED UP & FULL OF WORMS) is a gory, erotic thriller shot on fleshy Super 16mm.
See it at Here-After 11/21 at 930pm!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/anythin...
See it at Here-After 11/21 at 930pm!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/anythin...
We’re showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for our 55th annual engagement, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social! Mark your calendar or buy tickets right now!
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November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We’re showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for our 55th annual engagement, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social! Mark your calendar or buy tickets right now!
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