Last night was "closing night" for Silverdocs, and the awards were handed out yesterday afternoon, but that doesn't mean the festival's over. Indeed, today and tomorrow are packed with final screenings of films that played this week, including some of the most high-profile titles and award winners. more ›

When Animal Collective came to the 9:30 Club last spring, the show sold out before I.M.P.'s email blast had even announced the soft sale. But when the band's new visual album, Oddsac, hit the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring on Wednesday, there were enough empty seats in the house that one of the movie's promoters encouraged the 8 p.m. audience members to stay for the 10 p.m. screening. more ›

It's been nearly a decade since Southern Rock Opera -- a perceptive, engrossing, and very loud meditation on Lynyrd Skynrd, race relations, and growing up and getting out -- brought the Pitchfork crowd into the ever-broadening tent of Athens, GA's Drive-By Truckers. Maryland-based documentarian Barr Weisman's new DBT documentary, The Secret to a Happy Ending, will make its world premiere Sunday afternoon at the AFI Silver Theater. (It was originally booked for Feb. 5, but there was this little snowstorm.) Founding Truckers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, as well as Weisman and long-serving DBT drummer Brad Morgan, will be on hand to take questions following the 5:30 screening on Sunday. Another screening will follow at 8:30. more ›

Left wing propagandist, or righteous speaker of truth to power? Hypocritical blowhard or man of the people? Egotisical hack or talented documentarian? Chances are you already have a strong opinion about Michael Moore, and already know if you're planning to check out his latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story. The film met with warm receptions at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, winning the Little Golden Lion Award at the latter. Notices in the U.S. have also been positive, though slightly more mixed — those on the Continent have always been more inclined to laud Moore's films, as they are with Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis as well. Moore and Allen we get; Lewis, not so much. more ›