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05/28/2026

Playing this week at the Palm Theatre 🎬

05/27/2026

Releasing this 🌈 JUNE CALENDAR 🌈 with so much PRIDE and joy. Explore a spotlight on Brian De Palma, Olivia Newton-John, tons of films celebrating Pride Month, new releases and more!

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🩵 Showtimes and tickets are now available at www.thepalmtheatre.com

🩷 Grab a calendar as a souvenir! Physical copies available in our lobby.

05/26/2026

Some doors should never be opened… Newly added to the canon of new releases at the Palm, we’re stoked to bring A24’s newest nightmare to the screen. THE BACKROOMS starts Friday.

*TUNER will be opening at the Palm on Friday, June 5

05/25/2026

Enjoy the end to your Memorial Day weekend with a showing of this timeless reminder of service, resilience, and the cost of war.

7:00PM | Monday, May 25

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge’s construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

05/23/2026

GIVEAWAY! 🛍️ To celebrate the release of Boots Riley’s new film, I LOVE BOOSTERS, this week we’re giving away an exclusive prize pack courtesy of .

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Giveaway runs from Saturday, May 23 through Tuesday, May 26 at 11:59pm. Winner will be announced on Wednesday, May 27. The giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.

05/22/2026

Join us for our next Science on Screen selection, as we celebrate our iconic sand dunes with a showing of THE HOUSE OF SAND (2005), a mesmerizing portrait of people, place, and time set among shifting dunes. After the film, local experts will explore what our own dunes can teach us about history, climate, and change.

4:15 PM | SATURDAY, JUNE 13
More information, expert bios and tickets available at www.thepalmtheatre.com

Join us after the film for a discussion with Saule Baipsys, Sebastian Alvarez, and Dan Robinette as they explore the themes in the film of time, landscape, and human impact, connecting the film’s shifting dunes to mirror the history and changing ecology of our own local dunes and the stories that they hold.

HOUSE OF SAND (2005)
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

05/21/2026

One of the best examples of live-action and animation hybrid films, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is still a landmark hit in the Disney canon, and a perfect addition to our Ani-MAY-Tion Flickerhead series.

7:15PM | Friday, May 22

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988)
‘Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

05/20/2026

Join us for a participatory screening with artist Natalie Woodlock, who will hand out handkerchiefs at the start of the Brokeback Mountain, and after the film, ask what scenes made you cry. Natalie embroiders the names of all who have shed tears on their handkerchief and illustrates the scenes that bring viewers to tears.

7:00PM | SATURDAY, MAY 23
TEARJERKER:BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN WITH VISUAL ARTIST, NATALIE WOODLOCK
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection, complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

05/19/2026

FASHION, FORWARD, FILANTHROPY!
It’s time to see the brand new, critically acclaimed film I LOVE BOOSTERS! And in true independent spirit, what better place to see this film than the Palm!

I LOVE BOOSTERS! - Starts Friday May 22
A fearless crew of inventive young women turns shoplifting into a radical act of defiance. Led by Corvette, they move across Oakland, boosting coveted goods as both survival and protest—challenging a system built on exclusion and excess.

05/16/2026

Join us for another Pixarpalooza pick TONIGHT with A BUG'S LIFE (1998) 🐜 🌿

7:00PM | Saturday, May 16th

A BUG'S LIFE (1998)
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

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