OJAI PLAYHOUSE
The Ojai Playhouse, opened in 1914, is a historic 200 seat single screen movie theater located in Ojai, CA. The Ojai Playhouse screens digital and 35mm films, curates music, comedy, variety and more.
The Ojai Playhouse, opened in 1914, is a historic 200 seat single screen movie theater located in Ojai, CA. The Ojai Playhouse screens digital and 35mm films, curates music, comedy, variety and more.
Ojai Playhouse
Free Screening / Registration Required
2023 Director: Alex Braverman
Starring: Bob Zmuda, Danny DeVito, Laurie Anderson, Lynne Margulies, James L. Brooks
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 39min
Andy Kaufman's provocative comedy often outraged audiences, challenging them to confront their own presumptions. Through never-before-seen footage and intimate recollections, filmmaker Alex Braverman explores Kaufman’s brief but impactful life and career. As the lines between performance and reality blur in our present age, Kaufman’s genius resonates more than ever.
AFTER SCREENING Q&A WITH DIRECTOR ALEX BRAVERMAN
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Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS Free Screening / Registration Required
1964
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 35min
A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
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Ojai Playhouse
1995
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlin, Gina Gershon
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr 8min
A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
Ojai Playhouse
2024
Director: Peter Browngardt
Starring: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 31min
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are Earth's only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion.
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Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS Free Screening / Registration Required
2003
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom
Format: DCP
Running Time: 3hr 21min
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
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Ojai Playhouse
DOUBLE FEATURE!
First Blood
Year: 1982
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 33min
Rated R
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Year: 1985
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 36min
Rated R
Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.
Ojai Playhouse
1986 Director: Hal Needham
Starring: Bill Allen, Bart Conner, Lori Loughlin
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 33min
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire
to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
A RAD Documentary (2025)
Directed by Michael Kirsch
The official documentary about the 1986 cult classic RAD. It features
exclusive interviews with cast, crew and the BMX legends who performed the
stunts, and revisits and explores iconic moments from RAD.
1hr 3min
2024
Director: Kevin McDevitt
Running Time: 9min
When a mountain biker steals another’s “lucky” drying bike shorts, mistaking them for a curbside discard, a wild chase into the mountains ensues.
This short will appear on the bill with RAD and A RAD Documentary.
Ojai Playhouse
2025
Director: Anna Wild Toomey
Running Time: 1hr 15min
The gripping new feature documentary Left Behind tells the story of five tenacious mothers determined to establish the first public school in New York City for children with dyslexia.
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Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS Free Screening / Registration Required
2025
Director: Raul Gasteazoro
Starring: Marguerite Moreau, Graham Greene, Jade Tailor, April Lee
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 30min
With the region's last source of freshwater buried under a Native American reservation and evil forces angling for control, a convict fighting for her freedom becomes the unlikely protector of a young boy who may have the power to save it.
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Ojai Playhouse
1995
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr 50min
A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
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Ojai Playhouse
1995
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O’Donnell
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr 1min
Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler, with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
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Ojai Playhouse
1984
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Starring: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 30min
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
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Ojai Playhouse
1993
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 59min
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
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We look forward to seeing you at the Ojai Playhouse, please help to support our free screenings by visiting the concession stand and enjoying our delicious organic popcorn, slushies and snacks! Your support is appreciated!
Thank you!
Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS - Free Screening / Registration Required
1991
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlin, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr 20min
Capturing the hedonistic chaos of the late '60s, The Doors: The Final Cut follows the life and times of the band's enigmatic and magnetic front man Jim Morrison from cradle to grave. Stone's powerful musical portrait, featuring an amazing soundtrack including over twenty-five songs from The Doors' catalogue, charts Morrison's turbulent relationship with his muse Pamela Courson , the formation of the band in Southern California, his experimentation with hallucinogens and the occult, and his tragic death at the age of 27 in Paris.
4K RESTORATION
DOLBY ATMOS
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Ojai Playhouse
1964
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 31min
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS Free Screening / Registration Required
Year: 2025
Director: Josh Roush
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Mickey Rourke, Leonard Maltin, Haley Joel Osment, Justin Long, Robert Rodriguez, Mark Frost, Jim Mickle, Matt Pinfield, Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman, James Parks, Mark Lewis
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 45min
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parksis an unflinching and intimate portrayal of the life and career of actor Michael Parks, a man whose journey through the Hollywood system was as unpredictable and unique as the roles he portrayed.
Once dubbed “the greatest living actor” by Quentin Tarantino, Michael’s career swung the pendulum between the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. When “discovered” by Lew Wasserman, Michael starred in some of the biggest blockbusters of the time, however, when he bit the hand that fed him, Wasserman had him relegated to TV, and later to having no career at all. Michael’s answer? Pivot to music, where he recorded several gold albums, performed with Johnny Cash, and on the Ed Sullivan show.
Despite living on the outside of the movie industry for decades, Michael continued to take the work where he could get it, resulting in dozens of small, yet incredibly noteworthy performances in B-movies and TV. All this hard work culminated in the resurrection of his career at the hands of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Mark Frost, Kevin Smith, and many more.
Michael first met filmmaker Josh Roush on the set of Kevin Smith’s movie Tusk, where Josh was working as a behind the scenes cameraman. Due to Michael’s declining health at the time, Kevin asked Josh to change gears and be his personal assistant throughout the shoot. Though the older curmudgeonly actor and the young brash Punk Rocker had little aesthetically in common, the two struck up an immediate friendship that lasted until Michael’s passing and resulted in Josh creating this documentary in his honor.
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Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2025
Director: Ísold Uggadóttir
Starring: Björk, Viibra flutes, Manu Delago, Bergur Þórisson
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr
Bjork Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerized audience worldwide for five years. This unique cinematic experience immerses viewers in Bjork’s spectacular stage production, featuring a setlist spanning her iconic early works to the visionary Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2023). The production showcases bespoke instruments, including a magnetic harp, a circular flute, an aluphone, and a reverb chamber. Directed by Isold Uggadottir, the film features sound and visual creative direction, music arrangements, production, and performance by Bjork. Cornucopia sees Bjork pushing the boundaries of live performance, offering a visually and sonically immersive experience unlike anything seen before.
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2024
Director: Eugene Kotlyarenko
Starring: Dasha Nekrasova, Peter Vack, Ivy Wolk, Vish Velandy, Casey Frey, Richard Edson
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 38min
After screening Q&A with director Eugene Kotlyarenko
A sexless couple, paranoid about the status of their relationship, embraces surveillance, spying and performance as a means to fall in love again, in this absurd, high-concept comedy.
When Celine begins filming a documentary about her failing relationship, her boyfriend, Jay, becomes suspicious that she may have an ulterior motive: to cancel him. In a paranoid attempt to seize authorship over the film, Jay sets up hidden cameras and tries to entrap Celine into problematic behavior he can record as insurance. As their secret surveillance escalates, they find themselves creating a movie full of absurd, erotic and highly performative scenes, with a wild cast of characters. But when another couple’s whirlwind marriage puts Jay and Celine’s dysfunctional dynamic into perspective, the two of them must use all the cinematic moments they've shared to try and save their love, in this high-concept relationship comedy that asks, “Who’s in control of the narrative?”
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2024
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2025
Director: Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke, Jonathan Zawada
Format: DCP
Running Time: 64min
An audio-visual experience from Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke, and Jonathan Zadawa.
Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales – a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making. Landscapes of synth-pop, prog, dub, 70s synth, Joe Meek, Ivor Cutler, Library, kraut and classic Warp™️ – Tall Tales sounds like musicians meeting in the Hinterland. Transmitted by Australian visual artist Jonathan Zawada, Tall Tales is a fairy tale for the modern world; depicting rising tides, kings & queens, amazon logistics and robotic arms under iridescent skies. We wanted computers to do our accounting – instead, they try to paint our pictures and sing our songs. Like all good fairy tales – this work edges light with the dark as Thom's echoed chants intertwine with Mark's shimmering electronics. On Tall Tales, we hear seasoned musicians continue down the path of experimentation.
A prophetic visual album, Tall Tales has been years in the making, but delivered right on time.
Ojai Playhouse
TICKETS Free Screening / Registration Required
Year: 2024
Director: Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Starring: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 40min
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.
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We look forward to seeing you at the Ojai Playhouse, please help to support our free screenings by visiting the concession stand and enjoying our delicious organic popcorn, slushies and snacks! Your support is appreciated!
Thank you!
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2024
Director: Ryan J. Sloan
Starring: Ariella Mastroianni, Renee Gagner, Jack Alberts
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 56min
Rated R
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.
Post-Screening Discussion with Emily Saliers (of Indigo Girls) as part of a day of fundraising for Ojai Playwrights Conference in partnership with Ojai Playhouse to support the future of the American Theater.
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We look forward to seeing you at the Ojai Playhouse, please help to support our free screenings by visiting the concession stand and enjoying our delicious organic popcorn, slushies and snacks! Your support is appreciated!
Thank you!
Ojai Playhouse
Join us for a Benefit Concert for Ojai Playwrights Conference in partnership with Ojai Playhouse with Grammy Award-Winner Emily Saliers (of Indigo Girls) and Folk-Rock Sensation Jonatha Brooke - showcasing never-before-heard songs from their upcoming musicals, along with beloved fan favorites. The night will feature Tony Award-nominated Broadway powerhouse Beth Malone (Fun Home) and iconic actor, YouTuber, podcaster, graphic novelist & playwright Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds). Hosted by the Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated comedian, writer, director and podcast host Tig Notaro. The Benefit Concert will be held here at Ojai Playhouse, and a post-show gathering with the artists nearby will follow.
All to support Ojai Playwrights Conference and the future of the American Theater. And if you can't join in person, you can sponsor a ticket for an artist!
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 2024
Directors: David McMurry, Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson
Starring: Swamp Dogg, Moogstar, Guitar Shorty
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 34min
Cult musician Swamp Dogg and housemates Moogstar and Guitar Shorty have turned their suburban LA home into an artistic haven. They journey through the turbulent music business, forming a special friendship transcending eras.
SWAMP DOGG + MOOGSTAR IN PERSON!
SPECIAL AFETR SCREENING Q&A WITH SWAMP DOGG, MOOGSTAR AND DIRECTOR DAVID MCMURRY
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 1985
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Format: DCP
Running Time: 2hr 40min
Rated R
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Running Time: 2hr 04min
When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
SPECIAL 4K RESTORATION in DOLBY ATMOS
Ojai Playhouse
Year: 1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Running Time: 2hr 04min
When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
SPECIAL 4K RESTORATION in DOLBY ATMOS
