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Last weekend, Seattlest revisited the other Shorewood High School for our 20-year reunion. And it's been 20 years since Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court left Lakeside High, so on our flight to Milwaukee, we got reacquainted with Cameron Crowe's Say Anything.... Singles gets the Seattle-centric attention, but Say Anything... is the movie where Seattle first caught our eye, several years before we actually moved to the land of the Gas 'n' Sip.

Tonight will be the final live performance version of Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain at the Cinerama, this time with Maddin in person as narrator, (instead of Karen Black, who we saw Wednesday night), backed up by the live orchestra and the "the Aono Jikken Ensemble" sound engineers providing weird, old timey Maddinesque style sound effects. After tonight, the film will be shown at the NWFF with a recorded soundtrack. This is part of the Local Sightings thing we mentioned earlier.

We're only going to say this once: Say Anything... is the best Hollywood romance since Casa-frickin'-blanca. (Or Notorious!, which has a harder title to frick up.) It does for Seattle in the '80s what Bogie's film did for Vichy-held Morocco: makes it look like the coolest place on earth to be hopelessly in love.

Are there any memorable moments in Seattle cinematography that stick out in your mind? Good shots, absurd moments, classic scenes...or maybe you were lucky enough to end up in the background somewhere? Leave a comment and let us know!