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It's cold and rainy here in blustery Seattle, so why not go catch a movie? Here's a roundup of some of the film offerings around the Emerald City:

FREE MOVIES IN SEATTLE! 

Sure, you can listen to your fave radio station to find out about those nifty free preview screenings.  But if you're really a movie buff, you might want to check out Janet's Film Club at Janet Wainwright PR. They'll send you passes to get in free to lots of preview screenings! The only catch? Use 'em or lose 'em.

UW Film Club 

Japenese Film Series - Supermarket Woman (1996, Itami Juzo). Japanese comedy about a woman (Miyamoto Nobuko) hired to remake a small grocery store to compete against a large chain. Thursday, March 9 @ 7:30PM, UW Savery 239

A Moveable Feast  - Check out a rough cut of this film, by a former UW student. And it's free! At the Ethnic Cultural Center, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE.

Seattle Jewish Film Festival March 5-19 - This year marks the 11th year of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, and they have a fantastic lineup. This year's fest runs at three venues: Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), AMC Pacific Place, and Majestic Bay Theaters in Ballard. The festival really kicks into high gear this week, with an interesting lineup of films:

March 11 - The opening night film is Live and Become, which you can have with dessert at the 7PM showing (for passholders special ticket holders only), or without at 9:50PM. The film, which won the audience award at the 2005 Berlinale, tells the story of a young Ethiopian boy in the 1980s whose mother places him with a group of Ethiopian Jewish refugees to save him from the famine. As he grows from a boy into a man under his assumed identity, the lie under which he has lived begins to take its toll.

Check out the full lineup to see when other films are playing.

Ah, the 1970s - a decade of psychedelic polyester fashions, freakishly large moustaches, drugs, and free love. The Pill brought sexual liberation to women for the first time and, free from the fear of unwanted pregnancies, a generation of young women embarked on exploring lustily the sexual freedom men had always known. Likewise, the dawning of the gay rights movement following the infamous Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969 liberated gays - lesbians as well, but gay men in particular - to come roaring out of the closet, spawning a decade of sexual exploration and freedom unknown to the repressed gay population since Roman times. For many gay men in that idyllic, albeit temporary, nirvana, it was the first time in their lives they had friends, community, and sense of acceptance - and sex. Lots of sex.

Gay Sex in the 70s, a documentary by Joseph Lovett, is billed as a "steamy romp", but really, beneath the mirth at its surface, it is a very serious film. The film explores gay sex from sociological and historical standpoints in the decade between Stonewall in 1969 and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, when Dr. Lawrence Altman first published an article about an unusual cancer that seemed to be affecting primarily gay men.