MUSIC—Are you ready to feel like the only living human being in a vast stretch of apocalyptic wasteland, hunted but alone, vulnerable yet jaded? To feel awash in an endless stretch of sonic textures that ebb and flow like a sandy ocean? Hope you bought tickets to the immersive aural experience that’s a Godspeed You! Black Emperor show. COURTNEY FERGUSON
Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell, Sun (w/Marisa Anderson), Mon (w/Vast Plains), 8:30 pm, $28 (sold out)
FILM—If you’re going to see a movie, see a fucking movie. Like, say, Akira Kurosawa’s all-time classic Seven Samurai (1954), one of the finest adventure stories (and dramas, and romances, and comedies, and action flicks…) ever put on film. Tonight, the Hollywood’s got all three-plus hours of this can’t-miss movie on the big screen, in 35mm, and in gorgeous black and white. ERIK HENRIKSEN
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7 pm, $9
One should mention that so very many of Kurosawas films have been Americanized – in the case of The Seven Samurai, it was turned into The Magnificent Seven, or The Hidden Fortress turned into Star Wars, etc etc.
Kurosawa Rocks!