comedy - CTV of Lane County

16Sep 2025 by Kurt Liedtke

The Greatest Movie Ever Made — a 30th anniversary screening of SHOWGIRLS

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. 6 p.m. So bad it’s perfect. So wrong it’s transcendent. So naked it’s... Showgirls. The film that set the new standard for the silliest sex scene to ever take place in water. To celebrate one of the most jaw-dropping cult phenomena in cinema history, CTV invites you to experience Showgirls (1995) like you never have before—with the hysterically brilliant audio commentary by writer David Schmader, dubbed "The Greatest Movie Ever Made". This isn’t just a screening—it’s an annotated crash course in glorious cinematic failure. "Showgirls triumphs in that every single person involved in the making of the film, from the writers, actors, gaffers, every single one of them is making the worst possible decision at every possible time, and it's this incredible density of failure that…

So, all there is, is, is this — 20th anniversary screening of BROKEN FLOWERS

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025. 6 p.m. Deadpan. Mysterious. Unmistakably Jarmusch.This month at CTV, we invite you to sink into the quiet, melancholic charm of Broken Flowers (2005), a wry and soulful road movie from one of independent cinema’s most enigmatic voices: Jim Jarmusch. Starring a perfectly understated Bill Murray, Broken Flowers follows Don Johnston, an aging bachelor who sets off on a reluctant cross-country journey to revisit a string of former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter claiming he has a 19-year-old son. What unfolds is not a quest for answers so much as a meditation on aging, regret, and the strange poetry of unresolved lives. Like many of Jarmusch’s films, Broken Flowers unfolds at its own rhythm—minimalist, dryly funny, and full of lingering silences that say more than any…

Put a dwarf in it — a 30th anniversary screening of Living in Oblivion

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025. 6 p.m. Indie filmmaking is hard. Living in Oblivion makes it hilarious.To mark the 30th anniversary of one of the great underground comedies of the ’90s, CTV is thrilled to screen Living in Oblivion (1995)—a film that every independent filmmaker, dreamer, and DIY auteur will recognize as painfully, absurdly true. Directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi in one of his most iconic roles, Living in Oblivion is a behind-the-scenes satire of the chaos, egos, technical failures, and emotional meltdowns that plague a low-budget film shoot. Structured in three surreal, interlocking acts (each one more unhinged than the last), it’s both a love letter to and a roast of the indie film scene—equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. In a city like Eugene, where grassroots film…

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