• If you haven’t made it to SIFF yet to see Girls Rock!–get down there right away.  You have until the 20th to go see this brilliant documentary about empowerment, inspiration and improving society through advancing personal growth, centered around the transformative powers of rock’n'roll camp for girls.
• There’s a fine selection of films at NWFF, too.  Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise is a beautifully shot film in which vivid color illuminates the dark tale of a Maoist cell spending a summer of plotting in Paris.  Get a look at the insurgency in Iraq from the perspective of a variety of Iraqi citizens in Meeting Resistance.  Both films run through March 20.
• Les Claypool and National Lampoon present Electric Apricot:  Quest for Festeroo, a comic look at the jam band festival scene.  At Central Cinema through the 16th. 
• The Grand Illusion continues its trend of offering movies you just can’t see anywhere else with  a showing this weekend of the only print in existence of the extremely obscure men in prison film Caged Men Plus One Woman.  This weekend also marks the debut of Times and Winds, a beautifully fascinating look at three preteen friends in an isolated rural Turkish village.
• Midnight at the Egyptian:  Scarface, the often quoted 1983 film by Brian DePalma that stars Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a hoodlum from Cuba who arrives in Miami via the Mariel boatlift and soon guns his way to the top of his own cocaine-fueled empire.   In all honesty, I don’t think this movie entirely deserves its legendary status–parts of the movie move very slowly and there’s quite a bit of unintentional humor in it, but if you’ve never seen it before you should check it out if only to discover just how many pop culture references can be sourced back to it.

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