Let's All Go to The Movies

What's playing this weekend at Seattle's movie theatres? We'll tell you what's playing this weekend!

SIFF's Kurosawa-sensei, paying homage to the unchallenged master of Japanese cinema, kicks off tonight with one of Kurosawa's early films, the nail-biting police drama Stray Dog. A young Toshiro Mifune stars in this taut, beautifully framed tale of a young police detective's increasingly desperate race to track down his stolen firearm.

Seattle Art Museum pays their respects to a different kind of genius, presenting Silver Streak tonight - it's the first in a series of films spanning the career of comic mastermind Richard Pryor that you can catch at the Museum this February.
Grand Illusion hosts Sometimes a Great Notion, the family epic starring and helmed by Paul Newman and based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name. And it's certainly a good flick, but the real event tonight is the late show, featuring Bad Biology, the latest grotesque, bizarre and sexually deviant horror film from director Frank Henenlotter, who has built his reputation by directing grotesque, bizarre and sexually deviant horror films like Basket Case and Frankenhooker. Henenlotter will be in attendance tonight for a brief Q&A and a screening material from his personal stash of exploitation film trailers. Can't stay up late enough for tonight's show? There's no shame in that, and you don't even have to miss out - Henenlotter will be on hand at Scarecrow video at 7 pm, signing DVDs and chatting with fans.
And we'd be remiss in acknowledging our deep love of all things cartoony if we didn't mention thatCentral Cinema begins a week long engagement of the newest animation from the godfathers of brilliant and troubling cartoons, Spike and Mike. And we are many things, but remiss is not among them.