It’s going to be hot this weekend: cool off from your sunny afternoons by taking in a movie.

Travel back in time with Northwest Film Forum ^[1] to 1966 with the Seattle premiere of a brand new print of Made in the USA, a rarely seen in the US pop culture film noir by Nouvelle Vague auteur Jean-Luc Godard never shown on TV, DVD, or video. Friday night also features Police Beat, the locally produced film about a bike cop who travels the city witnessing the many scenes that involve a call to 911. Screenwriter Charles Mudede of The Stranger and “urban theorist” Thomas Sieverts are joined by writer Matthew Stadler for a talk about “the new shapes of cities and the ways that film can make them legible”.

Grand Illusion ^[2] screens Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, a sci fi thriller in a future Tokyo after half the population of Earth has been destroyed in a catastophe. A special government agency called NERV fights giant alien creatues known as “Angels” but who is the real enemy and can the world be rescued by the fourteen year old boy in whose hands its fate rests?

Campy creepfest (or is it creepy campfest?) Deathrace 2000 plays at Central Cinema ^[3]. The 1975 cult classic stars David Carridine and Sylvester Stallone in a vision of the year 2000 as a time when the US economic system has failed and the nation’s most popular event is a transcontinental car race in which drivers are scored not just on their skill but also on how many innocent bystanders they can take out. It’s even more awful than you imagine it to be but fans consider that to be the charm of the film.

Midnight at the Egyptian ^[4]: Independence Day, the Will Smith sci-fi shoot ‘em up/

The Harvard Exit ^[5] presents two SIFF ‘09 favorites: Moon, a smart, engaging meditation on the nature of the self presented in the form of a solo space station employee looking forward to going back home to Earth only to discover that strange, strange things are happening around him. Is there really someone else on the moon with him? Is that guy who looks just like him his clone or is Sam losing his mind? And if he is–what can he do about it? (Also playing at Metro Cinemas ^[6]

Every Little Step explores long-running Broadway hit A Chorus Line from inception to the present, blending archival and contemporary footage of the people both behind the stage and in front of it to tell the remarkable story of this huge production.