For Your Consideration: The Week in SIFF

This week the weather's cooperating a bit more. Nothing like escaping rainy days with a film festival (except if you get stuck in a downpour while waiting in line, so pack that umbrella). Once inside you'll be golden thanks to your perusal of Seattlest picks. Trust us. Golden!

But first, we want to highlight some special events:

· A Conversation with Julien Temple, with musician/critic Sean Nelson, will no doubt cover Temple's three music films of the last ten years (The Filth and the Fury, Glastonbury, and Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten), but he's been in the thick of it since the mid-1970s, when he was filming The Sex Pistols and The Clash. (Tuesday, 7pm @ SIFF Cinema)

- SIFF's Gay-la brings -- a scary disco movie! In Poltergay, a young couple's new home is haunted by disco-dancing gays. Post-film reception at Neighbours, right next door for more gay dance action. (age 21+ only). (Gala Thursday, 7:15pm @ the Egyptian; film only, Saturday, 2pm @ the Egyptian)

Digital Media Lab offers classes on Final Cut Pro, DVD authoring, encoding -- everything you need to know to YouTube your way to stardom. (Mainly Thursday & Friday, 10am on @ Broadway Performance Hall)

And now the moving pictures:

- No Regret gets the thumbs-up from a friend of ours. He says this South Korean story of a gay prostitute, his wealthy client, and their obsessive love is modern-day Romeo & Juliet, but with much more unsettling violence. (Monday, 4pm @ the Egyptian)

- In The Life of Reilly, television icon Charles Nelson Reilly -- recently, sadly deceased -- performs his one-man show, "Save It For the Stage." (Monday, 9:30pm and Sunday, 4pm @ the Harvard Exit)

- Red Without Blue can be best summed up as a "documentary about all-American identical twin brothers and best friends Mark and Alex, and how they became twin brother and sister Mark and Clair." Also touches on drugs and suicide. (Tuesday, 7pm and Thursday, 4:45pm @ the Harvard Exit)

- Audrey says Summer Rain, directed by Antonia Banderas, should be called to your attention because "it's terrible." "During a summer spent by the pool, three teenaged boys experience a lifetime of sensation, depicted with flashes of color, light and lyrical verse." You've been warned. (Tuesday, 6:30pm @ the Neptune; Saturday, 6:30pm @ Lincoln Square)

- Whereas DarkBlueAlmostBlack, also Spanish, doesn't seem to suck: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s first film portrays two twenty-ish young men's attempts to find out who they are and who they love. And, yes, if they love who they are. (Tuesday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian)

- Dasepo Naughty Girls is set in No Use High School and features "a demon principal, a transgendered hottie and numerous karaoke sing-a-longs." The Stranger says there's "definite goofy charm to the entire mess."

- Tugboat Annie is a fucking Wallace Beery film set right here in Seattle. It's 1933: Beery is a shiftless drunk; Marie Dressler is a tugboat captain; you don't want to miss that. (Wednesday, 7pm @ SIFF Cinema)

- Lake of Fire is the ur-documentary on abortion -- shot over 16 years, it's 150 minutes of "epic complexity." (Wednesday, 4pm @ the Harvard Exit)

- This Animated Life lets you savor the startling variety of animation beyond CGI with 10 short films. It's also a Three Imaginary Girls pick, so there. (Wednesday, 9:15pm @ SIFF Cinema)