Tonight, Noir City, a seven-day festival of classic film noir, starts at SIFF. The shows are being introduced by "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller. Schedule The Prowler & Gun Crazy, Friday, Feb 15, 7pm [get tix] High Sierra & The Hard Way, Saturday, Feb 16, 1pm, 7pm [get tix] Moonrise & Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Sunday, Feb 17, 1pm, 7pm [get tix] Woman in Hiding & Jeopardy, Monday, Feb 18, 1pm, 6pm [get tix]......

This morning we were glancing through the Going Out section of the Seattle P-I when we ran across these two questionable entries:"War and Peace": 1 p.m. Sergei Bondarchuk's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel (part one screens today) is widely considered to be one of Russia's greatest achievements. Right up there with Ivan Drago and those wooden dolls that open up to reveal a bunch of smaller wooden dolls. SIFF Cinema, Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw......

Guns, booze, dames, and private eyes: The SIFF Cinema Summer Series (say that five times fast) kicks off tonight with their first annual Seattle Noir City Festival. Noir City's been taking place in San Francisco for five years now, and this is the first time it's made its way to the seamy underbelly of the Northwest. The festival is co-presented with and will benefit the Film Noir Foundation whose mission is to spread the......

ART: Fremont celebrates First Friday with their monthly art walk, while the McLeod Residence hosts the opening of their new photography/painting exhibit on Seattle "celebrities." 6-9pm // Fremont Abbey Arts Center // 4272 Fremont Ave N // Free 5-9pm // McLeod Residence // 2201 2nd Ave // Free FILM: SIFF breaks in their new Seattle Center cinema with a series of acclaimed classics honoring Janus Films' 50th anniversary. Get French tonight with the François......

STORIES: Matt "Defective Yeti" Baldwin, one of the 12 funniest people on the Internet, appears with Sean O'Connor at a special A Guide to Visitors event. It's being filmed for the Seattle Channel, it's free, and the organizers point out that the Skylark serves "Tater Tots and mozzarella sticks." 7pm // Skylark Cafe at 3803 Delridge Way SW in West Seattle // free QUEUE: SIFF wants a dry run of crowd-control measures at their new......

It looks like the Seattle International Film Festival is going to pull back a bit from its traditional venues around town and get its very own digs at the Seattle Center. McCaw Hall is being turned into "the best screening facility in the Northwest and one of the top facilities on the West Coast." SIFF is going to spend $350,000 to turn the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall into a theater that will operate all year......