Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (image via TriStar Pictures).

Cinephiles, get stoked. DCist is partnering with the Library of Congress for two different free film series this September and January.

All the films are scheduled to show in the Mary Pickford Theater, which is located on the third floor of the Library of Congress’ James Madison Building (101 Independence Avenue SE). They’ll be show every Friday in September and January (of 2015) at 7 p.m.

What films will we be showing, you ask? Well, DCist’s Chief Film Critic Pat Padua hand-picked two distinct but excellent series of films. September 6 will kick off the “Directed by Ken Russell” film series, which features a month of the legendary English director’s musicals (yep, that includes Tommy) and composer biopics.

In January, things pick back up again with the “The 80s: The Decade That Musicals Forgot” film series, which will feature, among other things, possibly the greatest-titled sequel there ever was Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Here’s the full schedule:

“Directed by Ken Russell” Film Series

• Sept. 5, 2014: “Lisztomania” (1975, *R-rated)
  This is not just a tale of the 21st century, but of 19th-century composer Franz Liszt (as played by The Who’s Roger Daltrey) onscreen.
  *No one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.
• Sept. 12, 2014: “The Music Lovers” (1970, *R-rated)
  Russell’s life of Tchaikovsky (played by Richard Chamberlain) is filled with nightmarish dream sequences and fantasies set to the master’s music.
  *No one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.
• Sept. 19, 2014: “Mahler” (1974)
  The director continued his streak of surreal biographies of the great composers with this wildly inventive fantasia on Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale). The film ostensibly takes place entirely on a single train ride, with the kind of over-the-top flashbacks and dream sequences that make Russell so unpredictable.
• Sept. 26, 2014: “Tommy” (1975)
  Russell used The Who’s seminal rock opera as a template for what Roger Ebert called the director’s gift for “three-ring cinematic circuses with kinky sideshows.” Roger Daltrey leads the cast of all-stars, including Ann-Margret as Tommy’s mother.

“The 80s: The Decade That Musicals Forgot” Film Series

• Jan. 16, 2015: “Streets of Fire” (1984, *R-rated)
  Fans of classic musicals know that RKO Pictures produced the great Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, but they may not know that a later incarnation of the company produced this ill-fated musical made by a director normally associated with action movies. Diane Lane and Willem Dafoe star in this dystopian rock ‘n’ roll fantasy.
  *No one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent or guardian.
• Jan. 23, 2015: “Xanadu” (1980)
  Critics raved about the ironic Broadway revival of this notorious box-office bomb, which cast Gene Kelly in a supporting role as a nod to the classic musical.
• Jan. 30, 2015: “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” (1984)
  Dance moves and Day-Glo fashions set the tone for this sequel to the breakdancing film “Breakin’,” released the same year.