Scarecrow is home to a collection of over 100,000 films from around the world; some made in far away countries and some right here in our own backyard. Last year’s SIFF hit ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION is set in lovely Port Gamble where, amongst the humble town folk, a Middle Eastern student has come …
If there’s anything Seattle moviegoers can’t get enough, it’s the grit and gloom of Film Noir. It seems like hardly a month goes by where there isn’t either a hard-boiled classic of the genre or a neo-noir descendant playing on a screen in town. Is it because we spend half the year shrouded in darkness …
Attention Rat City Rollergirls fans! You’ve been waiting since its World Premiere at the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, and now we’re happy to announce that Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls is finally coming out on DVD! To celebrate, Scarecrow Video will host directors Lainy Bagwell and …
We at Scarecrow are honored to once again welcome to the store Thelma Schoonmaker, the triple-Oscar winning film editor of many of Martin Scorsese’s films including Raging Bull, The Aviator, The Departed and the upcoming Shutter Island. She’ll be stopping by the store on Wednesday, February 10th at 2pm. Ms. Schoomaker is in town presenting …
Legendary exploitation filmmaker Frank Henenlotter will be at Scarecrow Video to chat with fans and sign copies of his latest DVD Bad Biology on Friday, February 5th at 7pm.
Most people know him as the director of films like the Basketcase trilogy, and the beloved horror comedy Frankenhooker, but Frank Henenlotter is also a film …
With 2010 well underway, we thought it was time to reflect on the last ten years of film in list form. We all went to our respective corners, whittled a decade of movie watching down to a workable list of 15 films, ranked them in order (a nausea-inducing task for some) and submitted them to …
Tickets are now on sale here at the store for Seattle Art Museum’s upcoming series celebrating screen icon Steve McQueen. The ten film retrospective begins this Thursday, January 7th with John Sturges’ WWII adventure epic The Great Escape (starring an incredible ensemble cast, Steve and a motorcycle) and features such films as The Sand Pebbles, …
It’s been two months since my last post detailing the glories of the Warner Archive releases for rent at Scarecrow (and very few other places, if any). Since then, we’ve gotten in nearly 100 more titles with another 20 en route as I type. In case you haven’t read the “Warner Archives at Scarecrow Take …