Senegalese pop star Youssou N’dour has made headlines for his music in more than one way – frustrated by negative perceptions of his Muslim faith, he created a deeply spiritual album titled Egypt which he used to call for a more tolerant view of Islam. Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love is a documentary of N’dour’s music, his off-stage life and “unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals” and screens this weekend at SIFF Cinema

NW Film Forum continues its “Films at the Edge of the World” series with the Seattle premiere of director Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool, which follows a sailor named Farrel on a lonely journey in the southernmost region of Argentina. He asks his captain to let him leave the ship and see if his mother still lives in their old village, setting off on a long, gloomy trek through snowy mountain ranges. Alonso will be in attendance for Friday and Saturday’s screenings.

Also at NWFF: Araya, the 1959 documentary about life in the Venezuelan peninsula of the title, restored to its full original glory by a dedicated team of film archivists and historians.

Gene Tierney was never more terrifyingly beautiful than in Leave Her to Heaven, screening at Grand Illusion with the Seattle premiere of a new 35mm print. After marrying a novelist played by Cornel Wilde, Tierney’s character decides she just can’t bear to share his affections with anyone, not the crippled younger brother whose death by drowning she helps cause, not even the baby she’s carrying until she deliberately causes a miscarriage and especially not family friend Jeanne Crain whom Tierney frames as her murderer just before killing herself.

Big Trouble in Little China was originally meant to be a Western set in the 1880s, but by the time the film was released in 1986 it became an action comedy starring Kurt Russell as a truck driver who helps rescue his buddy’s girlfriend from bandits in San Francisco’s Chinatown before heading underground to fight an ancient sorcerer. A commercial failure at its time of release, Big Trouble went on to become a cult movie; you can see it on screen at Central Cinema.

Speaking of action films with a cult following: Roadhouse, featuring Patrick Swayze as the bouncer you really don’t want to mess with, is this weekend’s Midnight Movie at The Egyptian.