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  My Own Private Idaho (1991)

  In only his third feature, New Queer Cinema icon Gus Van Sant lassoed two rising Hollywood stars for his dreamy-eyed arthouse film about two Portland hustlers. River Phoenix – Gen X’s James Dean, achingly vulnerable – plays a narcoleptic who falls in love with his straight best friend (Keanu Reeves), a Prince Hal-esque rich kid tender with his friend’s feelings ... until he’s not. Delectably off-kilter and teeming with gosh-wow visuals (a house falls from the sky, clouds skitter by in time-lapse, porno mags talk back), the film’s most special effect is capturing Reeves and Phoenix in full, luscious bloom of youth. The campfire scene will gut you. – Kimberley Jones Read a full review of My Own Private Idaho.

  Sat., Feb. 3, 7pm

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  Tótem (2023)

  A seven-year-old's world shifts at a family gathering in this rapturously received coming of age story from Mexican director Lila Avilés (The Chambermaid).

  Sat., Feb. 3, 3:45pm, 6:15pm

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  Century of Sembène

  Ousmane Sembène was 40 before he picked up a camera, and maybe that explains why his films were filled with a lifetime of wisdom, storytelling genius, and political anger. The son of a Senegalese fisherman who became a bestselling novelist in France, his films and books critiqued the colonial powers that had devastated Central Africa. Now AFS Cinema is showing four features by the father of African film: his 1965 debut Black Girl (La noire de…) Jan 30. & Feb. 3, Emitai (1971) Feb. 6 & 10, Xala (1975) Feb. 13 & 17, and his internationally acclaimed feature Ceddo (1977) Feb. 20 & 24. – Richard Whittaker

  Sat., Feb. 3, 2:30pm 

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  Totally F***ed Up (1993)

  Read a full review of Totally F***ed Up.

  Sat., Feb. 3, 9:30pm

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  The Love Witch (2016)

  Get in the V-Day spirit with a screening of The Love Witch, part of the series Bad Girls Club hosted by Cindy Popp. Styled in lush Sixties Technicolor hues but released in 2016, the film follows love-obsessed witch Elaine, a master of seduction potions and spells that work a little too well, leaving a string of dead lovers behind her. It’s got hippies, manhaters, cups of blood, and immaculate blue eyeshadow. Go ahead; freak out your boyfriend! – Lina Fisher Read a full review of The Love Witch.

  Sat., Feb. 3, 9:30pm

  Blue Starlite Eastside, 1156 Hargrave St.