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The Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 Screened at two locations at the same time, this concert documentary captures the seminal punk band in its prime at a Christmas Eve show at the soon-to-be-defunct N.Y.C. institution. DVDs of the gig will also be sold, and there's an encore screening of a Dead Boys gig at the same venue. RIP. (NR) Easy Street Records, 20 Mercer St., 206-681-3279. Easy Street Records (West Seattle), 4559 California Ave. S.W., 206-938-3279. Free. 7 p.m. Thurs. Sept. 21.
Cineoke Sing along to your favorite scenes; Miss Sylvia O'Stayformore is emcee. (NR) Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., 206-686-6684. $5. 6 p.m. Sat. Sept. 20.
Mariano Baino The Italian horror director will be on hand to sign your two-disc DVD release of his 1994 Dark Waters (not to be confused with the J-horror Dark Water or its remake). Working in the tradition of Mario Bava and Dario Argento (call it I-horror?), Baino has an Englishwoman travel to a remote island convent on the Black Sea, where she runs afoul of nuns and a sea demon. Expect lots of Catholic iconography and Gothic atmosphere, after which plot runs a distant third. Scarecrow Video, 5030 Roosevelt Way N.E., 206-524-8554. 6 p.m. Tues. Sept. 26.
Borderless Sounds International music is the focus of this weeklong collection of seven titles (most produced in Switzerland). Accordion virtuosos, klezmer masters from Brooklyn, and the curious Swiss alphorn (think Ricola commercials) are featured. Also look for a portrait of avant-gardist Fred Frith, Swiss jazz pianist Irène Schweizer, and a fusion of musical styles in Namibia. Some live performances may attend individual screenings; see Web site for full schedule and details. (NR) Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 206-267-5380, www.nwfilmforum.org. $25-$35 (series), $5-$8 (individual). Fri. Sept. 22-Thurs. Sept. 28.
Favela Rising Working with fancy post-prod digitals courtesy of HBO, filmmakers Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary bring the Brazilian ghetto experience to Middle America, complete with harsh-contrast City of God cinematography, bloody violence, and suspiciously manipulative editing. Rising has an authentically inspirational tale to tell: Something, it seems, had to emerge from the '90s drug hell of the Rio favelas as a counterforce, and it was AfroReggae, a communal group for ethnic empowerment begun, with no funds, as a music newspaper. Over the next 10 years or so, AfroReggae became a top-selling music ensemble (eventually signing with Universal Records). All in all, the movement turned out to be a godsend for Rio natives, but the film is merely a pep rally. 21 and over. (NR) MICHAEL ATKINSON Harvard Exit, 807 E. Roy St., 206-781-5755. Free, but RSVP to www.scion.com/route. 7 p.m. Tues. Sept. 26.
Feast Not the least bit artful but gleefully gruesome, Feast may be all one can ask of a no-budget monster movie. A freaked-out stranger bursts into an isolated desert tavern to warn that man-eating creatures, possibly from another planet, are heading their way. Viewers of the reality series Project Greenlight know that Feast is the long-shelved byproduct of the show's final season, and that its endearingly timid director of choice, John Gulager, couldn't decide what form their onscreen demons should take. That probably explains why they appear, at various points in the movie, to be horny gremlins, or the wayward progeny of the creature from the Black Lagoon. They're vicious, though, and while most of the action sequences are too dark and frenzied to track, Feast delivers some wittily nasty moments, such as the yanked-out eyeball scene, and a creature vs. pissed-off-mom showdown that's gooey and gross. They should premiere this movie at a Midwest drive-in. (R) CHUCK WILSON Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., 206-781-5755. $6-$9. Midnight. Fri. Sept. 22-Sat. Sept. 23.
Four Eyed Monsters This festival-circuit indie is screened on four successive Thursdays in September. Co-directors Arin Crumley and Susan Buice evidently incorporate part of their own dating history in their tale of two NYC artists who meet over the Internet, then decide to continue their romance via paintings, sketches, e-mail, videos—anything other than talking directly, in other words. It's probably no less improbable than any number of other love stories among the Funny Ha Ha/Meetup.com generation. (NR) Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 206-523-3935. $5-$7.50. 8 p.m. Thurs. Sept. 21.
Free Italian Movies Screened as part of Seattle Center's Festa Italiana, Saturday's Rocco and His Brothers (1960) is one of the great works of neorealism, directed by Luchino Visconti and tremendously admired by Martin Scorsese and just about anyone else who's ever picked up a movie camera. This is the restored three-hour version of a southern family's difficult adjustment to life in the big, uncaring city of Milan. On Saturday, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Wide Blue Road (1957) stars Yves Montand as a Dalmatian fisherman forced to use illegal dynamite to support his family (including wife Alida Valli, herself pretty explosive). Montand wears a haunted expression throughout the picture; he knows he's doing wrong, but loves his family too much to quit. He's a virile, existential figure, appropriate to the period, one who won't shirk his responsibilities—or his fate. This should also be the restored color print, a treat. (NR) Experience Music Project (JBL Theater), 325 Fifth Ave. N., 206-367-5483. Free. 3 p.m. Sat. Sept. 23-Sun. Sept. 24.
