Guild Theatre

The programming at The Guild Theater has changed a lot over the years. At the start of the theater, when it was the Tayler Street theater, the programming was mainly live theater performances. The Tayler Street theater's live performances were so exemplary that they were known for having an acting troupe that would go around Oregon. The Tayler Street players were well known and did a form of advertising for the theater. The theater then moved into showing films. This quickly led to them showing exploitation films. These shows did incredibly well, and they did a lot of these performances. After a drop in popularity, the theater needed to change its program. This then changed in the 1970s when they started their focus on showing classic films. This became such a key part of the theater that it was advertised as "Oregon's finest film classics theater." After the popularity of that started to wane, it then later changed in the 1980s when the theater moved to being a second-run theater. They then continued these operations until the 1990s, when the theater owner Tom Moyer helped out the Northwest Film Center by hosting the Portland International Film Festival there. international and U.S. The Film Festival was known for showing independent features, documentaries, animation, and experimental shorts. The rent for the Film Festival is designed to be just a 1 dollar a year to support the art of the city. The theater then closed in 2006, ending the Film Festival being hosted there.