Empire of Night: British Film Noir series coming soon to SAM

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 …

THELMA SCHOONMAKER visits Scarecrow Wednesday, Feb. 10th

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 …

While on a lunchtime scroll through the IMDb, I found this article they linked to from HitFix announcing the latest batch of works added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board (a part of the esteemed Library of Congress). This year’s selections, which to be eligible must be “must be at …

Scarecrow’s Staff Gift Guide–Part Two

Welcome to Part II of the Scarecrow Staff Gift Guide. As you may recall from our first installment, this guide is a list of things we’d either like to receive or would suggest as ideal gifts for others this holiday season.  All of these items are available in our store.  Here  are our next round …

The King Of Cool: Steve McQueen film series starts Thursday, January 7th

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, …

Don’t forget, this is the LAST WEEKEND of our totally out of control USED MOVIE SALE.  There’s still plenty of good stuff to be had, including a lot of Blu-ray titles.  If you’re feeling theatrically inclined this weekend, here are some suggestions:  TONIGHT FRIDAY, JULY 24th : The Twin Peaks/David Lynch fest we told you …

The  Carole Lombard series at Seattle Art Museum (mentioned here) starts TOMORROW (that’s Thursday, July 9th) with the quintessential screwball comedy Twentieth Century.  We’ve still got tickets available–they’re $35 for SAM members and $39 for the general public.
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Tickets on sale at Scarecrow for CAROLE LOMBARD & TWIN PEAKS FEST at SAM

Laugh off the dog days of summer with classic comedies from a screen legend. Seattle Art Museum just announced their summer film series Goddess of Laughter: The Comedies of Carole Lombard: six weeks of humorous fare such as The Princess Comes Across (co-starring a pre-My Three Sons pairing of Fred MacMurray and William Frawley) and …