Christina is an isolated young woman so desperate to meet people that she pretends to be devoutly religious for the opportunity to travel with religious groups in Lourdes, makes its Seattle premiere at NW Film Forum.

Friday only at NWFF: Ukranian Time Machine, a collection of personal, experimental and non-fiction stories captured on film by Naomi Uman who returned to the tiny village her family fled 100 years earlier.

Saturday only at NWFF: Innocence Lost, a 1970 film unavailable on DVD in which a cute young inmate learns the hard way what it takes to survive prison.

At SIFF Cinema, 1947′s Brighton Rock, a thriller based on a Graham Greene novel that proves that noir exists even on a sunny beach as Fred Hale heads to a seaside resort town for a newspaper promo campaign with a sociopathic gangster on his trail.

Some films simply entertain and there’s nothing wrong with that but some films change the world. When it’s for the better, it’s worth respecting. Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives is one of those films that fits that latter category; originally released in 1978, Word is Out was groundbreaking. Twenty-six people, ranging from 18 to 77, from all over the US and living in all sorts of circumstances speak openly of their experiences as gay people when simply admitting to being gay was an act of courage. At the Grand Illusion.

Central Cinema pays tribute to the late Corey Haim with his best-known film, the incomparable Lost Boys. You know how sometimes you’ll watch some movie that seemed like the Best Movie Ever years earlier when you first saw it and find yourself wondering how you could’ve ever liked something so horrible? This will not happen to you with Lost Boys Okay, yeah, there are some dated pop culture references in it, but, hey, that happens. Joel Schumacher was smart enough to make the Molly Ringwald poster in Corey Haim’s bedroom a minor prop and, really, you didn’t like this movie for the fashions and hairstyles. Lost Boys remains a fine example of how comedy-horror can be done right and Haim does a great job here. At 7 pm nightly through the 7th.

Also at Central Cinema, 9:30 nightly through the 7th: the inexplicably popular Donnie Darko. You either love DD or you don’t; of course, you’ll never know which camp you fit into if you don’t ever see it.

Midnight at the Egyptian: SIFF Golden Space Needle winning Black Dynamite, an affectionate spoof of 70s Blaxploitation films.