What sad, stunning news that beloved film director and writer John Hughes has died, at the age of 59, of an apparent heart attack. For people of a certain age, people who make up nearly the entire staff of DCist, his movies mean an awful lot in terms of cultural touchstones.

If you’re feeling as nostalgic as we are, there are actually several screenings of John Hughes films already planned in town in the near future, thanks to the many ’80s film fests going on this summer.

Tomorrow night, Friday, August 8, Rosslyn’s “I Love the ’80s” film festival is showing Pretty in Pink, which was written, though not directed, by Hughes. And Rosslyn’s final selection of the summer is Hughes’s classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, screening on September 4. (You already missed your shot at The Breakfast Club, which screened in June in Rosslyn and in July at the Capitol Riverfront.)

And later this month, the AFI Silver’s ’80s movie picks for the summer will include the excellent and often overlooked Some Kind of Wonderful, which re-teamed writer/producer Hughes with Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch, showing on Friday, August 21 at 7 p.m., Saturday, August 22 at 5:15 p.m., and Tuesday, August 25 at 7 p.m.