Shutter Island, Curb Your Enthusiasm & more New Releases for 6/8

If you like French films, Peter Sellers, Muppets, Martin Scorsese, Pluto (the planet, not the dog), U2, rock poster art, kids doing kicks, Bobcat Goldthwait, awesome locally made films or fish porn, you’ll find plenty to watch in this week’s crop of new DVDs. If you don’t, well, hey, there’s still a ton of titles …

Theater roundup for the first weekend of June

You wouldn’t know it from the weather, but June has arrived and that means Seattle is abuzz with Film Festival Fever. THE SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL rages on into its second week–please visit their site for the schedule, which includes the Tribute to Edward Norton on Friday at 7pm at the Egyptian. Scarecrow would like …

Theatergoing roundup for 5/21

Greetings everyone and welcome to the theatrical round-up for Seattle film fans’ favorite weekend of the year. That’s right, THE SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL begins its full day of shows on Friday and will continue its cinematic domination through June 13th. There’s just too much good stuff for us to go over here, so head …

New Releases for May 18th

There’s definitely something for everyone in this week’s crop of new releases. Whether you’re into anime, old westerns, giant monsters, foreign films—especially French & Japanese titles—documentaries on historic & modern subjects, critically acclaimed performances of the past year or your run of the mill Hollywood entertainment, you’ll find something you’ll like and much more.  …

Clip & SAVE on CRITERION BLU-RAY during SIFF

May is every cinema lover in Seattle’s  favorite month, for with the slightly increased temperatures and the slightly decreased rainfall comes the SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. From May 20th to June 13th, the film faithful will be lining up at theaters all around Seattle (plus Everett and Kirkland), ready to take in SIFF’s always impressive …

National Film Festival for Talented Youth begins April 29th

If you know (or are) a young filmmaker, budding movie fan, or if you’re at all curious about the future of film, we suggest you spend the weekend at the 2010 NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR TALENTED YOUTH. The four day festival, held (with a few exceptions) at SIFF Cinema and the Experimental Music Project/Science Fiction …

Weekend theater roundup 4/23

Our in-theaters weekend roundup begins at Northwest Film Forum with a special Earth Day themed film: Elia Kazan’s “mid-career masterpiece” WILD RIVER. This 1960 film stars Montgomery Clift as a Tennessee Valley Authority official who arrives in a small town on the brink of destruction from an impending flood and Lee Remick as a young …

This week’s In Theaters report begins with the highly anticipated (in certain pockets of our staff, anyway) comedy DATE NIGHT starring Steve Carell and this week’s SNL host Tina Fey. It’s playing all around town but we strongly encourage you see it down at  Columbia City Cinema. While you’re there you can become a Cinema …