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Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic is being screened on video here, secondary to the wine tasting event, but there's nothing wrong with lifting a glass (and some antipasto) to the memory of swinging London and the Carnaby Street era of David Hemmings, Jane Birkin, and Vanessa Redgrave. And if you get caught up in the existential murder mystery that photographer Hemmings investigates, so much the better. (NR) Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, 206-443-3242. $20. 7 p.m. Sun. May 21.
Cabin Field Artist Laura Kissel will discuss her landscape film Cabin Field, about a rural farm in Georgia that, though substantially demolished and invisible to the visitor's eye, exists on in ghostly satellite images. (NR) 911 Media Arts Center, 402 Ninth Ave. N., 206-682-6552. $5-$7. 7 p.m. Fri. May 19.
Grassroots Rising Predominantly Korean, Filipino, and Thai, immigrant workers in L.A. come together to fight for their workplace rights in this documentary, certainly made timely by recent demonstrations. Discussion follows. (NR) New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., 206-722-2453. $7.50 (includes dinner at 6:30 p.m.). 7:30 p.m. Thurs. May 18.
Groundhog Day One of the best American comedies of the '90s, and screened here on video, this 1993 Bill Murray vehicle will be used as the basis for a subsequent discussion by professor Bill Reinhardt called "The Quantum Mechanics of Groundhog Day." Which would sound a lot funnier if Murray were saying it. But still, you might learn a little something about wormholes and time portals and the like. (PG) UW Bagley Hall, Room 131, 206-616-9880. Free. 7:30 p.m. Mon. May 22.
Horrors of War Sci-fi meets WWII in this tale of American GI's who encounter Nazi paranormal weapons during the late days of the war. This is a sneak preview/test marketing screening. (NR) Varsity, 4329 University Way N.E., 206-781-5755. $10. 7 p.m. Thurs. May 18.
Lecture Everett Herald critic Robert Horton will discuss, and likely show clips from, Night of the Hunter, Psycho, and Twin Peaks in a conversation with Frye curator Robyn O'Neil. Their talk, linked to the Frye's current show, is titled "The American Dark Fable." Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 206-622-9250. Free. 2 p.m. Sun. May 21.
Lonesome Cowboys Andy Warhol has his way with all things Western and campy in this 1969 spoof, featuring Joe Dallesandro, Viva, and other superstars from his Factory. What else is a hitching post good for, if not practicing ballet? In its own queer way, it's the unacknowledged uncle that Jack Twist never knew he had in Brokeback Mountain. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 206-267-5380. $7-$9. 7 p.m. Thurs. May 18.
Love Streams John Cassavetes' final film (made in 1984) is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film. It's a movie that gives up its mysteries slowly—flirting with theatricality, inserting dream sequences, concluding on a brazenly surreal enigma. Cassavetes stars as a tough-guy novelist with unorthodox research methods. Gena Rowlands, magnificent as ever, is his sister, a divorcée who turns up at his doorstep with two taxis full of luggage and an entire barnyard menagerie. An emotional live wire (and by default a social rebel), Rowlands' embarrassingly demonstrative character is a kindred spirit to those in A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night: All are women with a raw-nerved, overwhelming capacity and need for love. More explicitly metaphysical than the other great Cassavetes films, Love Streams nonetheless shares their view of love as a way of life and a form of madness. (NR) DENNIS LIM Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 206-267-5380. $5-$8. Fri. May 19-Thurs. May 25.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek To absorb the full effect of Preston Sturges' breathless 1944 screwball comedy, you must know what a media sensation the Dionne quintuplets caused during the era. Uncertain paternity afflicts our brash heroine (Betty Hutton), whose lovelorn, nebbishy pal (Eddie Bracken) tries to help her out of the jam. Can she get married a second time to save her reputation? Would you want to marry Eddie Bracken? "There are very few dopes like [him]," her sister says of Bracken; true, and his hysterical cowardice suggests both Bob Hope and Woody Allen. (Hutton doesn't wear too well, either.) Sturges veteran William Demarest plays Hutton's exasperated father, who takes some pretty thunderous pratfalls trying to kick his daughters' asses. In all, Creek is strongly dated but still tremendous fun. Screened on video; ticket includes discussion and snack. (NR) Movie Legends, 2319 N. 45th St., 206-632-2092. $5. 1 p.m. Sun. May 21.
The Motorcycle Diaries Screened on video, Walter Salles' portrait of the revolutionary as a young man is comic, not Communist. It's 1952, and Che is merely a clean-shaven 23-year-old med student (Gael García Bernal), who sets out from Buenos Aires with a buddy (Rodrigo De la Serna), intending to see the continent from south to north. Based on Guevara's own journals and numerous other accounts, Diaries does everything possible to strip the myth from a (then) unfocused young bourgeois man without an ounce of political consciousness as the journey begins. Salles relies too heavily on his hero's platitudinous voice-overs, but Diaries becomes a lovely travelogue with drama in the changing light, winding road, shifting clouds, and rising dust—enough to overcome its lack of incident and action. (R) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 206-686-6684. $5. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Wed. May 24.
