“Don’t you agree with me that, in some things, the old fashioned ways are best?”

This line from Barbarella might describe the mini-todo over SIFF Cinema’s current “Sci-Fi on Blu-Ray” series.

They’re showing 12 Monkeys, Planet of the Apes, 2001, Logan’s Run, and The Man Who Fell to Earth in the modern hi-def home DVD format, projected onto a theater size screen.

The nice folks at the Northwest Film Forum, noting that Blu-Ray’s hi-def is still lower-def than film itself, responded by quickly scheduling a 35mm screening of Planet of the Apes this Thursday (Jan. 28), followed by a panel discussion “about the future of film exhibition.”

(In other NWFF news, critic Dennis Lim named Policebeat (one of the productions NWFF helped organize, and one of the films that kickstarted the Seattle filmmaking scene) one of the Sundance Festival’s “top 10 fiction films of the decade.”)