Movies

Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount continues this week with "Street Angel," the 1928 Frank Borzage drama set in Naples, Italy. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for best actress for her work in this film. Jim Riggs will provide live accompaniment on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. 7 p.m. Monday, Paramount, 911 Pine St.; tickets are $10 and available at the box office, online at www.stgpresents.org or by phone at 877-784-4849.

SIFF Cinema presents a special evening with animator Don Hertzfeldt on Thursday night, which will feature a selection of Hertzfeldt's short films (including the Seattle premiere of his latest film, the 23-minute "It's Such a Beautiful Day"), an onstage interview and a Q&A. 7 p.m. at the Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle. Tickets are $15 ($14 youth/seniors, $10 SIFF members).

At the Film Center (on the Seattle Center campus), SIFF presents a Films4Families screening of Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" at noon Saturday and Sunday (as well as Feb. 4 and 5), with each screening preceded by a costume contest. Tickets are $4. For tickets to all SIFF events, call the box office at 206-324-9996 or see www.siff.net.

Tickets are now on sale for several events at Seattle Art Museum. Thelma Schoonmaker, Oscar-winning film editor (and currently a nominee for "Hugo"), will visit SAM to present the newly restored version of 1943's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," directed by Michael Powell (Schoonmaker's late husband) and Emeric Pressburger, on March 6. She will also, on March 7, introduce Powell's 1960 thriller "Peeping Tom." Tickets for both films are $18 ($14 for SAM, SIFF, NWFF and TheFilmSchool members).

Also coming up at SAM: the spring-film series "Shadow Street: The Best of British Film Noir," an eight-week series beginning April 5 and continuing through May 24. Passes are $59 ($53 for SAM, SIFF, NWFF and TheFilmSchool members). To purchase passes for either event, see www.seattleartmuseum.org or call the box office at 206-654-3121.

Director Eric Schmid will be at Northwest Film Forum Thursday night to introduce a screening of his documentary "Max Bill: The Master's Vision," about the influential 20th-century Swiss artist. And the Children's Film Festival continues through Feb. 5; for a preview of the event, go to www.seattletimes.com and search for "Children's Film Festival." All NWFF events take place at 1515 12th Ave., Seattle; 206-267-5380 or www.nwfilmforum.org.

"Kevin Smith: Live from Behind," a special three-hour event, will screen at several local theaters at 6:30 p.m. Thursday including Thornton Place, Bella Bottega, Alderwood 7 and the Auburn 17. The event will include the podcast "Jay and Silent Bob Get Old," followed by a live Q&A with Smith and Jason "Jay" Mewes. For more information, see www.fathomevents.com.

And finally, this weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is the Seattle premiere of "The Theatre Bizarre," a surreal tale in which six bizarre stories are unfolded in a mysterious theater. 805 E. Pine St., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.

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