Sügisball (Autumn Ball) shows at the Uptown at 4 p.m. today. Set in and around crumbling Soviet-era tower blocks in Estonia (which is a real country!), this Cassavetes-like, slice-of-gritty-life drama follows an almost bewildering number of lonely, yearning, unfulfilled people around. At two unflinching hours, it's not for the faint of heart or saddlesore, but it's a beautiful portrait of what you might call social architecture. And then there's Dead Snow, which we previewed and we're pleased to report our high hopes for Nazi zombies were completely justified. That's spattering the Pacific Place with gore and gray matter at 9:30 p.m. Be there. more ›

Leave it to Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola to resuscitate (sorry) the sub-genre with Dead Snow, and leave it to the Seattle International Film Festival to bring it to local audiences twice in the next two weeks (once on May 23 for an Egyptian Theater midnight screening, and once at 9:30 p.m. on May 27 at Pacific Place). more ›