The best film events and screenings happening in March. by Julianne Bell Want more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This That. Safe MAR 1–15 Todd Haynes’s S afe is a horror movie cloaked in pastel colors, plastic tarps, and unsettling silence. Julianne Moore, the master of tension and nuance, plays Los Angeles housewife Carol White, who comes down with a debilitating illness that doctors cannot diagnose. After becoming self-convinced that the illness is caused by extreme environmental allergies, White flees to a retreat in New Mexico led by a New Age guru. Perhaps the most fascinating element of this film is the numerous ways it can be interpreted: a critique of suffocating suburban life, an allegory for the queer experience, a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, or a commentary on self-help culture—the more time that passes since its release, the richer the text gets. Don’t miss the chance to see it on the big screen this month to celebrate its 30th anniversary. (Northwest Film Forum, times vary) AUDREY VANN Pillion MAR 20–29 A24’s kinky gay “dom-com” Pillion, adapted from the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, is one of my most highly anticipated films of 2026. English filmmaker Harry Lighton’s feature directorial debut follows the meek, guileless Colin (Harry Melling), whose life is turned upside down when he hooks up with gorgeous biker Ray (certified sexy freak Alexander Skarsgård) in an alley. Soon, Colin is initiated into the intriguing world of gay biker culture and BDSM and finds an unexpected sense of purpose and agency in his role as submissive. It’s a hot, funny, and surprisingly sweet meditation on sex and power—Secretary for the leather boys. Read our full review here. (Northwest Film Forum, times vary) JULIANNE BELL Scorsese: The Age of Innocence APR 1 Martin Scorsese has made countless iconic films about the Big Apple in different time periods, from Wall Street in the late ’80s (The Wolf of Wall Street) and decaying post-Vietnam New York City (Taxi Driver), to the city’s swanky jazz clubs of the 1940s (New York, New York). So naturally, he was the man for the job when it came to adapting fellow New Yorker Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence. Set in Gilded Age Manhattan, the story follows a messy love triangle between a young lawyer, his fiancée, and his fiancée’s newly separated cousin. This movie has everything: Winona Ryder, staggering period accuracy, decadent feasts, sweeping cinematography, and plenty of yearning glances. This is part of SIFF’s Martin Scorsese: Maestro of Cinema series, showing a different film by the director every Wednesday evening through the end of April. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7:30 pm) AUDREY VANN More The Hawks and the Sparrows Mar 2–5, the Beacon, times vary Scorsese - Taxi Driver: 50th Anniversary Mar 4, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7:30 pm The Bride! Opens Mar 5, wide release Truth to Fiction: The Librarians Mar 5, NW Film Forum, 7 pm The Room Mar 5, Central Cinema, 5 pm A Poet Opens Mar 6, SIFF Film Center Days and Nights in the Forest Opens Mar 6, SIFF Cinema Uptown Dial M for Murder Mar 6–11, Central Cinema The Big Lebowski Mar 6–11, Central Cinema HUMP! Film Fest Through Mar 7, On the Boards Collide-O-Scope Mar 9, Clock-Out Lounge, 7 pm Scorsese: Raging Bull Mar 11, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7:30 pm Retro Night: Mean Girls Mar 11, Majestic Bay Numbskull Revolution Mar 11–12, Northwest Film Forum The Ugly Stepsister Mar 11–12, SIFF Film Center, 7:15 pm Werckmeister Harmonies Opens Mar 13, SIFF Film Center Learning to Be Naked Screening with live burlesque from Mx. Pucks A’Plenty Mar 14, Central Cinema, 4 pm Emerald City Irish Film Festival Mar 14–15, Pacific Science Center PACCAR IMAX theater The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special Mar 15, the Beacon Raised by TV Oscars Viewing Party Mar 15, Clock-Out Lounge, all ages, free Scorsese: The King of Comedy Mar 18, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7:30 pm Project Hail Mary Mar 19, wide release Tow Opens Mar 20, SIFF Cinema Uptown He Never Dies: The Films of Kalil Haddad Mar 20–29, NW Film Forum The Cutoff Presented by Aravaipa Running Mar 21, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 1 pm Scorsese: Goodfellas (4K Restoration) Mar 25, SIFF Cinema Uptown, 7:30 pm National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY 2026) Mar 26–29, SIFF venues, times vary Stand by Me: The Film and Its Stars 40 Years Later with Wil Wheaton, Jerry O’Connell, and Corey Feldman Mar 28, Paramount Theatre, 7:30 pm, all ages ...read more read less