Things we love: The football, themes, and the films of Joan Crawford more ›

Sniff sniff, single tear. It's the last full week of SIFF, so you're well approaching your last chance till next year to take in some of that sweet filmy goodness. SIFF's not just movies; this week offers both the Opticlash 2 VJ battle at the CHAC and the Face the Music party at Neumo's, the latter of which includes performances by Viva Voce, Jesse Sykes, and Siberian. Tickets for both are going fast! more ›

SIFF saved one of its most intriguing film events for the last weekend of the fest: freaky director Tod Browning's silent film The Unknown, featuring Lon Cheney and a young Joan Crawford as circus folk. Creepy and twisted, the film itself warrants a viewing, but throw in an original score performed live by North Carolina-based band Portastatic, and this becomes a bonafide must-see. Seattlest talked to Mac McCaughan, indie rock godfather, about his work on The Unknown. more ›

If the forbidden love of Brokeback Mountain and that innuendo-laden Oscar montage whetted your appetite for homoerotic Westerns, you're in luck. For the next three Thursdays, Three Dollar Bill Cinema proudly presents Tough Love, "a film series on queer desire in the Wild West" at the Northwest Film Forum. The lineup is as follows: more ›