SIFF Cinema will be screening short film programs all weekend long for Bumbershoot. Not going to the festival? Check out one or more of these:

• John Ford’s masterpiece Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, was a four time Academy Award winner and just may be the finest Western themed film ever. Starring the legendary James Stewart, the iconic John Wayne and the gifted Lee Marvin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a thoughtful, provocative film with action, romance, suspense and strong emotional heft. See it at the Grand Illusion.
• Speaking of the Grand Illusion, they’ve brought back their late night shows with the delightfully atrocious 1976 teen sex comedy Hollywood High.
• It’s non-stop action with Romeo Must Die, starring Jet Li, at Central Cinema.
• Northwest Film Forum presents on Friday Cartune Xprez: 2008 AMRCAN FALL tour, a “70 minute animation party” which includes a piece in 3-D. This Sunday marks the start of The Sprocket Society’s Secret Sunday Matinee which runs at NWFF through November. Every week you’ll get an exciting episode of Flash Gordon plus a different feature each week–since the feature is a secret, you’ll have to attend each week to find out what it is.
• Starting Saturday at NWFF is one of the most provocative films to ever enter the pop culture, Network, a film best summed up by a recent quote from Roger Ebert: “Twenty-five years ago, this movie would have seemed like a fantasy; now it’s barely ahead of the facts.”
• Midnight at the Egyptian: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Words are superfluous.