Charlie Chaplin films featured at SIFF.....

SIFF Cinema this week presents "Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve: film and Charlie Chaplin," a week of series including 10 feature films and Chaplin collection of early short films. All display a newly renovated 35 mm prints, many of whom view the properties of two years and by one person. Series begins Friday 1931 silent film "City Lights" for the Little Tramp and the blind flower girl; other films are "Gold Rush", "The Kid", "dictator", "Circus," "Modern Times", "Limelight," " King of New York "" Monsieur Verdoux "and" A Woman of Paris ".

Passes for the entire series is $ 70 ($ 40 for SIFF members), individual tickets are $ 10. Siff Cinema, 321 Mercer St., Seattle, for more information or to purchase tickets, call 206-324-9996 or visit www.siff.net.

Three Dollar Bill Cinema continues its series "The Outlaw: Jean Genet on film, with two sessions this week, the prison drama" Deathwatch "(1966), with a pre-Star Trek Leonard Nimoy, on Saturday and" Balcony "(1963), with Shelley Winters as Mrs. Thursday. Both are at 19 am in Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle. Tickets are $ 12 ($ 10 Dollar Bill Three members) and are available at the door or online at www.threedollarbillcinema.org. For more information, visit the website or call 206-323-4274.

Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount continues "Crowd," King Vidor's 1928 silent drama of an ordinary American from New York City. Jim Riggs provide live accompaniment for the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ. Nineteen Monday, tickets are $ 12 and available online at www.stgpresents.org, telephone 877-784-4849, or at the box office is 911 Pine St., Seattle.

"The Grateful Dead Movie Event", which contains recordings of Grateful Dead 1974 several concerts and interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir will be screened Wednesday at 7:30 in several local theaters, including Pacific Place, Oak Tree, Thornton Place, and Alderwood Kent Station. Tickets are $ 12.50 and available through www.fathomevents.com, see the website for more information about the film.

The Chinese film "Mountain Patrol," about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in Tibet will have a free (with English subtitles) Sunday at 2:00 pm in the Auditorium of Central Library 1000 Fourth Microsoft Ave, Seattle.,. For more information, see www.spl.org or call the library at 206-684-0849.

Metro Classics continues this week with the 1955 black film "Night of the Hunter" with Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters and directed by Charles Laughton. Only on Wednesday at 7 and 9:10 pm, Metro, 4500 Ninth Avenue. NE, Seattle, 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.

And finally, the movie midnight, this weekend at the Egyptian is Jim Henson and Frank Oz in 1982 fantasy "Dark Crystal". Friday and Saturday, 805 E. Pine, Seattle, 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.