Silent Movie Mondays are back at The Paramount

Silent Movie Mondays returns to the Paramount this month with a three-week series of science-fiction adventure, beginning Monday at 7 p.m. with the 1916 Stuart Paton film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Jim Riggs will provide live accompaniment on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Series tickets are $31.50; individual tickets are $12 and available online at www.stgpresents.org, by phone at 877-784-4849 or in person at the Paramount box office, 911 Pine St., Seattle.

Also at the Paramount on Monday: a free screening of the short Buster Keaton film "Cops," along with a demonstration of the organ and a discussion of the history and music of silent films. Riggs and percussionist Paul Hansen will present this event, which begins at 10 a.m.

Northwest Film Forum this weekend presents a couple of films from the Earshot Jazz series. Damien Chazelle's "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," set in Boston, is the black-and-white tale of a brief romance between a trumpet player and a tap dancer. "Icons Among Us" is a documentary about the contemporary jazz scene, directed by Seattle filmmakers Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira and Peter J. Vogt. "Guy and Madeline" screens tonight and Sunday; "Icons" Saturday and Monday. NWFF, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle; for more information, see www.nwfilmforum.org or call 206-267-5380.

The Grand Illusion celebrates Halloween tonight with a "Spookshow Spectacular" collection of strange and mysterious spooky films, and Saturday with a "Super Secret Triple Creature Feature," which will include "a classic of human transformation horror and two modern-day cautionary tales of cosmic terror." Scary stuff, even without titles. Both begin at 8 p.m. Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., Seattle; 206-523-3935 or www.grandillusioncinema.org.

Metro Classics continues this week with Howard Hawks' 1959 Western "Rio Bravo," starring John Wayne, Walter Brennan, and Rat Packers Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson. Wednesday at 6:40 and 9:15 p.m. only at the Metro, 4500 Ninth Ave., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.

And finally, this Halloween weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is "Let the Right One In," Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson's tale of a young boy who falls in love with a vampire. (Sort of the anti-"Twilight," no?). Tonight and Saturday, 805 E. Pine St., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.

Moira Macdonald: 206-464-2725 or mmacdonald@seattletimes.com