Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy played the Hollywood Theatre on Friday, October 9. It was a screening of the cult movie by Julie Brown, and since it's a cult film, it's exactly the kind of thing the Hollywood likes to program.

For those who haven't spent much time there, the Hollywood Theatre is a nonprofit cinema in Portland that's been around since 1926. It's the reason the Hollywood District got its name, and it's built a reputation for the rare stuff—special events, rare screenings, and 70mm prints. In fact, it's the only place for hundreds of miles where you can still see a movie in 70mm, which puts it in a different league from your usual multiplex. A screening of a cult title like Earth Girls Are Easy fits right into that mix.

Julie Brown's Earth Girls Are Easy is a campy, musical sci-fi comedy about aliens who come to Earth and find that human men are surprisingly easy to manipulate. It's a movie that works best in a room full of people, and the Hollywood is a great place for that. If you've never seen it, it's a piece of cult cinema that's more about the energy of the crowd than anything else, so catching it on the big screen is the way to go.

If you missed this one, it's worth keeping an eye on the Hollywood's calendar. Between the rare prints and the special events, they're usually showing things you won't find anywhere else in the city. The screening was on Friday, October 9, at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland.