5th Avenue Cinema

Portlandy in every way. Cheap movies if you’re not a PSU student, free if you are, selected by a committee of the mustachioed film major employees. They just got done playing The Maltese Falcon. On the big screen. In 2015. They played Spring Breakers to celebrate spring break and went right back into playing obscure French films. Screw Voodoo Doughnuts and The Heathman, this is where you need to visit when you stay in Portland.
The only con is that you might end up in a digital screening room that turns into a Q&A session after the movie and there’s nothing worse than being stuck in a room filled with film majors in trench-​coats and fedoras. We get it, you know everything about Tod Browning, please stop arguing about it. Ugh, film majors.

Clean, functional and fun for students. Seeing WALL E as put on by PSU Recycles. Wall E is afterall the cutest garbage man known in this Universe.

Who can’t love a theater for a grand price of free for students and 2 bucks for civilians? I saw a film that I’ve added to my all time fave’s there: Espirtu del Colmena, The Spirit of the Beehive. Great hidden gem, FREE POPCORN!

its always fun to go to a free movie when I’m bored on the weekend. and the movies that are playing are always so interesting and always a movie i would never choose to see on my own. plus, there is free popcorn.

Well isn’t this just the most creative idea I’ve seen in a while! Turning a really nice classroom into a theater for students, faculty and everyday city folk like myself to hang in on the weekends is pretty awesome.
The classroom/​theater is equipped with a large screen and comfortable, spacious seats. General admission is $ 3 with popcorn included! Other concessions are super cheap.
To give you a sense of the variety of films they show, I saw Godard’s Masculin, Féminin here, and just weeks before they played Terminator 2. In a few weeks, I plan on seeing In the Mood for Love, if anyone cares. Keep up the awesome variety and fabulous work, 5^th Avenue Cinema!

There isn’t much to 5^th Ave Cinema but that is why I like it. With only two screens this isn’t a multiplex by any stretch of the means. If you are a PSU student admission is free and $ 3 for anyone else which includes free popcorn. They even have Mexican Coca-​Cola in the glass bottles which I find to be tastier than their can counterparts.
The movie selection is pretty varied with all types of genres getting their respective screen time from 60’s French New Wave to your favorite action flicks ala Terminator 2. When I saw they were playing Ed Wood I had to check it out and wasn’t disappointed. I will most definitely be making many return trips.

Small 2 screen Theater /​Classroom.
No Frills save for free Popcorn
$ 3 Admission
Comfortable seats.
Plays 2^nd run movies that you’ve always wanted to see in the theater but didn’t.
Easy to find on street parking.

Free movies if you’re a PSU student? And a free bag of popcorn to go along with it? Win!
As was already mentioned, the tiny theaters here do double as classrooms so the typical theater ambiance is a bit lacking, but what you will find is a wide variety of interesting movies (some classic, some foreign, some made by Portland students and residents, some just plain random). Showings are 7 & 9:30pm on Friday and Saturday, and at 3pm Sunday. The theater also has a great mailing list (check out their website!) that sends out weekly emails about what’s playing.

Yeah, if you have PSU student ID you get in for free! Free movies, and none of that shlock that Hollywood’s been churning out, but the good stuff! Example notables for this term include «My Best Fiend», «Ghostbusters», «Buffalo ’66», and «Virgin Spring». Oh yeah, and the popcorn’s free, too, even if you paid to get in, which for non-​PSU students is $ 2 and for general admission is $ 3. The seats are okay but since this doubles as a classroom in the day they’re those min-​desks with the folding arm-​tables. And, well, these are used reels, so they’re not always in the best of shape. But, still, I like free movies, especially when I’m broke and unemployed, so I go here. Besides, it’s nice not to have to thresh a path through a mob of pretentious hipsters for a seat.

PSU’s student movie theater – Oregon’s only college movie theater – also opens its doors to the public for a small fee. For a couple bucks you can see a second run movie, an old classic, or a film that is part of one of the many film festivals that occur periodically in Portland.
Theaters are small and seats are comfortable.