Top Down Rooftop Cinema is an annual outdoor film series. Classic, campy, and always entertaining, films screen every Thursday night in August amid Portland’s ideal summer weather.

Thursday August 31st -- 2012 SPRING BREAKERS

After landing themselves in jail, four young women on spring break are taken under the wing of Alien (James Franco), a rapper/thug with only somewhat veiled intentions. With Spring Breakers, celebrated provocateur Harmony Korine (Gummo, Trash Humpers) shoots for the mainstream both in terms of casting (the aforementioned Franco, plus formerly wholesome teen stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) and subject matter. Korine subverts expectations by both embracing and deeply critiquing the conventions surrounding his subject matter, asking viewers to reflect on media depictions of gender, sexuality, violence, higher education, race, and class, while yielding a new cult classic for the 21st century. “The movie suggests that its spring breakers—especially its two most audacious—are getting, guns ablaze, the education of their life, and that college itself is, rather, the permanent vacation where privileged young people stay clear of the raw realities of America.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker.

Join us atop the Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure at SW 15th and Yamhill for our 13th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase. Music by XRAY.fm DJ's begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.

Each film will be preceded by a short film by a Northwest filmmaker.

Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.