DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Popcorn & Candy: The Illusionist
Popcorn & Candy: Liars & Charlatans
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Out of Frame: Me and Orson Welles
Not long before seeing Me and Orson Welles, I had re-watched Welles' exceptional film essay and final completed feature, 1974's F for Fake, in which the director appears onscreen and on the soundtrack throughout the film. So as Richard Linklater's new film began, Welles' rich baritone, distinctive accent, and intense yet mischievous eyes were still lingering in my head. It came as a bit of a shock, then, when Christian McKay first appeared on screen with the exact same voice, eyes, and mannerisms as the great charlatan himself.
Popcorn & Candy: Shadowy Men in a Shadowy Sewer
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Catalyst's The Trial: J'Accuse!
Franz Kafka ordered his friend Max Brod to burn his incomplete novel The Trial after his death in 1924; Brod edited and published it instead. Although written more than 80 years ago, the book was so prescient in its portrayal of a idly malevolent bureaucracy that it feels timeless. Christopher Gallu has written a new adaptation for Catalyst Theatre Company (where he is Producing Artistic Director), and here he steps into some mammoth shoes:...
Round House's Director Too One-Dimensional
, and in its dramatization of the pair's shared insecurities, it succeeded in making both artists seem at once more fallible and more gifted.
Arts Agenda: Your Resolution
It's that time of the year again, when people make resolutions they do not plan on keeping. Join DCist in resolving to see more art in 2007, but let's mean it. You could get started this week. >> Studio Gallery will have an invitational show featuring artists from the greater D.C. metropolitan area (January 3 to 28). This will include Suzanne Quinlan, whose work is shown at right. Open Wednesdays to Sundays, 2108 R St....

