Olycop has an interesting comment buried in one of the threads.

Before the age of videos, DVDs, or the Olympia Film Society, Evergreen offered one of the few opportunities in Olympia to view something other than mainstream movies. There were three movie houses downtown: The State, The Capitol, and the Olympic. The State is now Harlequin's place, the Capitol is now OFS (and the most unchanged from its 1960s-70s self), and the Olympic is now where the Washington Center sits. There was a drive-in theater in Tumwater and another in Lacey (where Fred Meyer is today). And that was it. I do recall someone making a brief stab ca. 1975-76 at converting a church into an interesting movie house where Pacific and Martin and 4th and State intersect on the Eastside, but it didn't last long.

TESC would set aside one night a week as a movie evening, with one of the lecture halls serving as a theater. In the early 1970s attending a movie on campus was never dull. During one event, admission was better than free. As we entered, our hands were stamped and each audience member received a dime! Sitting with an Evergreen audience in this era was probably like seeing a movie in the Old West during the silent film time period, as the students talked back to the screen. I recall watching "The Maltese Falcon" around 1972 and the crowd in the hall was more entertaining than the movie itself. Every time Bogart fell into some cliche, or trademark sneer, the viewers hooted and howled and mimicked. The reaction was in a very tight unison.

During the closing years of the 70s, some student groups coming from the Left organized at least two film boycotts, one for "The Knack ... And How To Get It" and another for "Pink Flamingos." At the same time this artistic blacklisting was taking place, across town relgious groups coming from the Right were protesting the showing of "Life of Brian" in mainstream theaters. Some of us saw little difference between these two groups of protesters.

Around 1978-79 I once again saw "The Maltese Falcon" in the same lecture hall.