Popcorn & Candy is DCist’s subjective and selective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. You can also check out our guide to AFI Docs here.
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(IFC)17-year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) loses her innocence while on family vacation at the beach one summer. By fall, she’s turning tricks. François Ozon (Under the Sand, Swimming Pool) follows his young charge’s growth over four seasons with four songs, and the result is like a shorter, more respectable Nymphomaniac, without Von Trier’s shocking excesses but also without his unpredictable energy. Ozon as usual gets good performances out of his cast but the script, while an improvement over the failed ambitions of his last film, In the House, is an ultimately conventional troubled teen flick.
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Opens today at E Street Landmark Cinema.
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(Photofest)Sunday will be your last chance to see a movie at one of the area’s great repertory screens until 2016. The National Gallery of Art’s East Wing will close for renovations while the museum constructs new exhibit space. The Gallery has begun to move screenings to other venues, like the West Building Lecture Hall, as well as off-site venues at American University, the Embassy of France, the National Archives, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Museum of American History. The gallery sends off its East Wing Auditorium with a screening of a newly restored DCP of director Dino Rosi’s 1962 classic, a “sorely neglected … commedia all’ italiana [that] reads as a sort of elegy on unfettered energies of the early 1960s — fast cars, sleek jazz, rock ’n’ roll, even fashion sense.”
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Sunday, June 22 at 4:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art’s East Wing Auditorium. Free.
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I can’t wait to tell readers about the upcoming AFI calendar, which starts July 2nd. But I’ll have to wait till next week. Meanwhile, the AFI’s Jane Fonda series continues with a rare 35mm screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1972 political farce about a sausage factory strike, starring Fonda and Yves Montand. The film is centered around a remarkable cross-sectioned factory set. Tout Va Bien marked Godard’s return to (relatively) narrative cinema after four years of making experimental documentaries with Jean-Pierre Gorin, who co-directs.
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Wednesday, June 25 at the AFI Silver.
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Audrey Tatou and Romain Duris (Cohen Media Group)French novelist Xavier (Romain Duris) has relocated to New York’s Chinatown to be with his children. Duris and Audrey Tatou reprise their roles from director Cédric Klapisch’s L’Auberge Espagnole (2002) and Russian Dolls (2005) for this final installment (for now) of a comedic trilogy. Klapisch’s uses annoying American movie tics which don’t at all suit the chaotic, “what the hell are you eating and can I have some” energy of Manhattan’s Chinatown, focusing on Xavier’s self-conscious struggles as a writer, but fans of the previosu two films will want to find out what happened to these characters.
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Opens today at Angelika Pop-Up Union Market
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Image not necessarily representative of Psychotronic’s program.Daikaiju Giant Monster Appreciation Night
The Washington Psychotronic FIlm Society “pays tribute to some of cinema’s greatest—greatest monsters, that is!” That’s all they’re saying about next week’s program, but isn’t that enough?
Monday, June 23 at 8 p.m. at McFadden’s
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Also opening this week, Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of Jersey Boys, the Tony-Award winning Broadway show about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. We’ll have a full review later today.
