• Seattle Central Cinema is screening The Mambo Kings (mmm…Antonio Banderas) Friday night; Saturday night they are celebrating National Home Movie night with a talk by a film preservationist followed by as many home movies as they can show.
• It seems like every outdoor cinema in the Seattle area (and we all know by now that there’s a lot of them) is showing Casino Royale this summer. If you’ve missed it thus far or just can’t get enough, you can see it over on the Eastside at the outdoor cinema in Kirkland. (Yes, that’s yet another outdoor cinema! Next week they’ve got The Goonies)
• It’s a “Twisted Flick” this weekend at Seatle Outdoor Cinema in Fremont, specifically Cat Women on the Moon
• The Seattle Center’s Movies at the Mural is showing Young Frankenstein Friday (a good warm up for the musical currently playing at the Paramount) and The Corpse Bride on Saturday.
• They’ve got some great documentaries at the Grand Illusion this weekend: Casting About, I Have Never Forgotten You (and Dr.Bronner’s Magic Soapbox.. Oops, this is wrong; Dr. Bronner’s starts next week.)
• Bamako, a great example of contemporary African filmmaking is shown at Northwest Film Forum this weekend where you can also catch the documetary The Last Slide Projector.
• Speaking of interesting documentaries, SIFF Cinema screens Ghosts of Cite Soleil, a film about gangs in the Haiti slum called Cite Soleil, labelled by the UN as the most dangerous place on earth.
• Midnight at the Egyptian: sci-fi schlock classic Forbidden Planet.

Opening locally this weekend:

Moliere, this year’s closing film at SIFF. Josh was unimpressed but I really loved it: the story was lively and engaging, the filmmaking deftly handled, and the actor in the lead role (Romain Duris) extremely attractive. (At the Guild.)
• Stardust opens wide; starring the charming Charlie Cox and Claire Danes with excellent star-powered support from Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, this film (adapted from a Neil Gaiman novel) is sweet, fun and exciting.