• As previously mentioned [#], SIFF Cinema re-opens with Guy Maddin’s clever and inventive “docufantasia” My Winnipeg
• The Varsity offers up a number of excellent choices: Up the Yangtze about the incredible changes affecting the legendary Chinese river and is one definitely worth seeing.
• By the time I first saw Monty Python & the Holy Grail at The Egyptian a few years back, I’d already seen it at least a dozen times and heard some of the more popular quotes from it at least a zillion but I went, anyway, curious to see if watching it on the big screen is any different from watching it at home. For me, the answer was “yes”. You might want to check it out for yourself at the Egyptian Friday and Saturday night at midnight.
• Central Cinema screens Girlfight, a film about a teenaged girl determined to become a boxer despite all the negative nellies in her life.
• Northwest Film Forum presents Frownland, Ronald Bronstein’s debut film, a black comedy in which a self-described “troll from under the bridge” struggles to make a life for himself in an uncaring New York City.
• Except for the time I idly scanned a dozen pages of one of the novels while waiting for my nails to dry, I have been largely untouched by the Harry Potter phenomenon so while I get that it’s a big deal for a lot of people, I had no idea that there was an entire genre of “wizard rock” bands inspired by the series. Apparently there are lots of “wizard rock” bands out there, enough to inspire an entire film about them. The Wizard Rockumentary: A Movie about Rocking and Rowling opens Friday at the Grand Illusion. Wizard rock bands Hogwarts Trainwreck, Colin and the Creeveys, and the Fizzing Whizbees play between showings on Friday and Saturday.
• Late night at the Grand Illusion: Mausoleum, a creepy 80s horror flick starring Marjoe Gortner and Bobbie Bresee in the tale of a woman turned savage by a devilish family curse. Too bad Harry Potter wasn’t around back then to cure her.
• Want to see a movie but don’t want to give up being inside? Head to Fremont Saturday for the first Fremont Outdoor Movies selection of the summer, Superbad.

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