To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 American road comedy-drama film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York City drag queens who embark on a road trip. Its title refers to an iconic autographed photo of Julie Newmar they carry with them on their journey.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Join us for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth!

Introducing Watch Party — our brand new free screening series where iconic and must-see TV hits the big screen at the IFS Theater & Lounge! Bar and Concessions will be open!

We’re kicking things off with Alien: Earth — the thrilling new FX series set in the Alien universe — every Tuesday starting August 12 at 7PM. Come early, grab a drink, and settle in for cinema-style TV the way it should be watched.

Free entry. Big screen. Big chills. Let’s binge together.

A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Got film gear collecting dust? Whether it’s brand new, vintage, or that weird specialty piece you swore you’d use one day—bring it down and trade, sell, or just show it off!

Clean out your closet or garage and get that gear in the hands of someone who will use it
Meet fellow filmmakers
Bloodsport (1988) will probably be rolling in the lobby
We'll have a 'Free' section for anything people want to give away!
Bonus: relics of the old Greyhound bus station are up for grabs as we clean out our soon to be soundstage space! 

If you'd like to sell your gear, please fill out this brief survey by September 5th so we can reserve a table for your gear, and update you on details as we get closer to the event.

All sellers will be responsible for monitoring their own gear at the sale, and processing all payments related to their gears or trade. 

If you don't have anything to sell, come take a gander at the sale! Swing by, dig through the treasures, and see what’s good. You never know what you’ll walk away with.

Handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett wish to leave the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada, as they are tired of their dull lives. However, they happen upon a series of mysterious deaths and a concerned seismologist Rhonda studying unnatural readings below the ground.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another disillusioned American named Charlotte, a recent college graduate and newlywed. Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, and Fumihiro Hayashi are also featured. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

IFS Presents Secret Cinema—you won’t know what you’re watching until it starts, but it’s guaranteed to be a good time!

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Introducing Watch Party — our brand new free screening series where iconic and must-see TV hits the big screen at the IFS Theater & Lounge! Bar and Concessions will be open!

We’re kicking things off with Alien: Earth — the thrilling new FX series set in the Alien universe — every Tuesday starting August 12 at 7PM. Come early, grab a drink, and settle in for cinema-style TV the way it should be watched.

Free entry. Big screen. Big chills. Let’s binge together.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Doc. Days of Summer Double Feature!

7PM Hands on a Hard Body(90 Minutes)

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

8:30PM Winnebago Man(85 Minutes)

Winnebago Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Ben Steinbauer. The film follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from a salesperson named Jack Rebney. Originally intended as an inside joke, the video spread across the globe—first on VHS, and then via YouTube and other online video sites, earning the salesman the title of "The Angriest Man in the World". The documentary explores the story of the clips' origins and how, two decades later, they affected the reluctant star.

Or get a pass for the entire weekend of documentaries!

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

John Heyn and Jeff Krulik filmed Judas Priest fans in a concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland. Thirty years later, Heavy Metal Parking Lot is hailed as one the greatest rock documentaries ever.

It’s a definitive cultural touchstone for the 1980s metal scene: spandex, big hair, denim, mullets, muscle cars, and beer.

 Heavy Metal Parking Lot launched a parking lot genre that continues to resonate today with sequels, screenings, concerts, a reality-TV series, and fan-generated films and art inspired by the 1986 original.

Welcome to the World of Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Hell Yeah!

Or get a pass for the entire weekend of documentaries!

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

In this cult-favorite documentary, Mark Borchardt, an aspiring filmmaker from a working-class Wisconsin background, is set on finishing his low-budget horror movie, despite a barrage of difficulties. Plagued by lack of cash, unreliable help and numerous personal problems, Mark wants to complete the film to raise funds for a more ambitious drama. With the assistance of his bumbling but loyal friend Mike Schank, Mark struggles to move forward, making for plenty of bittersweet moments.

Or get a pass for the entire weekend of documentaries!

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon.

Named "Video Game Player of the Century" in 1999, Billy Mitchell sets a record score in "Donkey Kong" that many felt would never be broken. In 2003 Steve Wiebe, who has recently lost his job, learns about the record, sets out to beat it and does. So both men embark on a cross-country battle for inclusion in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records as the supreme king of the electronic game.

Or get a pass for the entire weekend of documentaries!

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Introducing Watch Party — our brand new free screening series where iconic and must-see TV hits the big screen at the IFS Theater & Lounge! Bar and Concessions will be open!

We’re kicking things off with Alien: Earth — the thrilling new FX series set in the Alien universe — every Tuesday starting August 12 at 7PM. Come early, grab a drink, and settle in for cinema-style TV the way it should be watched.

Free entry. Big screen. Big chills. Let’s binge together.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Sisters is a 1972 American psychological horror film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning.

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton (Margot Kidder), violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch (Charles Durning), who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) is the biggest drug dealer in Los Angeles, and Russell Stevens (Larry Fishburne) is an undercover cop who wants to bring him down. Posing as a dealer, Stevens begins to earn the trust of the L.A. drug underworld, eventually making his way to Jason himself. But along the way he has to take his cover to depths he never thought he would have to see, including selling drugs and going to great lengths to eliminate potential competitors for Jason's drug cartel.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Join us for a flavorful night of film and food with a Small Bites edition of Dinner & A Movie- with a screening of Jon Favreau’s Chef! We’re keeping it simple and delicious with a menu item from the film, the iconic Cubano Sandwich, freshly prepared by Idaho Provisions.

Doors at 6
Movie at 7

The Movie: A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.

Please Note: The Idaho Film Society is a 21+ only venue.

Introducing Watch Party — our brand new free screening series where iconic and must-see TV hits the big screen at the IFS Theater & Lounge! Bar and Concessions will be open!

We’re kicking things off with Alien: Earth — the thrilling new FX series set in the Alien universe — every Tuesday starting August 12 at 7PM. Come early, grab a drink, and settle in for cinema-style TV the way it should be watched.

Free entry. Big screen. Big chills. Let’s binge together.

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss (Clu Gulager) and a mysterious mortician (Don Calfa).

Join us for our 8pm or IFS AfterDark 10pm screening!

Remastered 4k edition

In the small South American town of Porvenir, four men on the run from the law are offered $10,000 and legal citizenship if they will transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerin to an oil well 200 miles away. Led by Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), the men set off on a hazardous journey, during which they must contend with dangerously rocky roads, unstable bridges, and attacks from local guerillas. The four fight for their lives as they struggle to complete their dangerous quest.

Selfish teen Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is coerced into joining a government project in which psychics like him are trained to enter others' dreams. He starts learning to use his abilities to do good, but before long, a new official, Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), seizes control of the project. A writer (George Wendt) helps Alex uncover Blair's true motives, which involve assassination via dreams. Soon, only Alex and a beautiful scientist (Kate Capshaw) stand in the way of something terrible.

Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with the car, to the alarm of his jock friend, Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). After bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) defaces Christine, the auto restores itself to perfect condition and begins killing off Buddy and his friends. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.

13 Assassins is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki. A remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 Japanese period drama film 13 Assassins, it is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo period in which a group of thirteen assassins—comprising twelve samurai and a hunter—secretly plot to assassinate Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu, the murderous leader of the Akashi clan, to thwart his appointment to the powerful Shogunate Council.

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Filmmakers! Mark your calendars: Our Bi-Annual Filmmaker Mixer returns Wednesday, July 24 @ 6pm

Last December’s kickoff bash was a total blast—and this one’s shaping up to be even bigger. If you’re a filmmaker, producer, DP, soundie, editor, come connect with Boise’s production community.

Want your demo reel projected at the event? Email us a download link to info@idahofilm.org.

Enjoy your 4th of July! We’ll see you on the 5th for our 50th anniversary screening of Jaws!

IFS Presents Secret Cinema—you won’t know what you’re watching until it starts, but it’s guaranteed to be a good time!