DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Indie: The Darjeeling Limited By now, five features into his career, it's likely you already have a strong opinion on Wes Anderson. Despite his tendency to borrow liberally from his own film and literary heroes, from Kubrick to Fitzgerald to the entire French New Wave, a Wes Anderson film feels like a Wes Anderson film from... more ›

Director Sofia Coppola's new film, Marie-Antoinette, has the look of a Merchant-Ivory period drama, with enough gorgeous costumes, jewelry, and gastronomic porn to rival the splendor of the Baroque château of Versailles, where most of the action takes place. (Coppola paid the relatively low fee of $20,000 each day that she shot at Versailles, according to news reports.) Its soul, however, remains in the late 20th century, showing the young Austrian princess, who becomes Queen... more ›

(By DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) more ›