Popcorn & Candy is DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
(A24)
Paul (Joel Edgerton) has taken his wife and child to a remote location in the aftermath of an unnamed disaster. The family maintains a tenuous security until a young couple comes seeking shelter. Director Trey Edward Shults follows his knockout debut Krisha with this unsettling horror movie. Indiewire writes that, “once again, Shults has delivered a top-notch psychological thriller.” Stay tuned for a full review from SFist.
Watch the trailer.
Opens tomorrow at area theaters.
Party Husband (Metrograph)
THE MATRIMONIAL BED and PARTY HUSBAND
The Mary Pickford Theatre at the Library of Congress presents 35mm prints of two seldom-seen pre-code films preserved by the Packard Campus Film Preservation Lab from original negatives in the United Artists Collection. The Matrimonial Bed (1930), is directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). It follows the misadventures of Leopold Trebel (Frank Fay), who after a bout of long-term memory loss is forced to navigate multiple complicated relationships and will be shown with Party Husband (1931), about a young married couple that grants each other a social freedom that they learn is not as easy as it sounds.
Thursday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mary Pickford Theatre, third floor of the Madison Building, Library of Congress. FREE. Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors open at 6 p.m.
(CinemaScope)
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST or METABOLISM
A movie director fakes a stomach injury to have an affair with his leading actress. The AFI Silver wraps up its Romanian film series with this 2013 drama from Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), who constructed the film out of 17 shots, none of which run longer than the 11 minutes that a standard film magazine holds. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes that, “With the dry wit of his shrewdly repressed long takes, Porumboiu puts dialectic front and center and speculates on the artistic implications of digital technology, even as he turns to medical imaging for some outrageously moist comedy.”
Watch the trailer.
Wednesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at the AFI Silver
(Embassy of the Czech Republic)
A middle-aged cellist (Zdeněk Svěrák) is forced to play funerals and repair tombstones after a Communist blacklist forces him out of the state orchestra. To make some money, he agrees to marry a Russian woman seeking Czech papers, but she emigrates just days after their sham marriage, leaving her five-year old son Kolya behind. This 1996 drama won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Watch the trailer.
Tuesday, June 13 at 6 p.m. at Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom Street NW. FREE. RSVP by June 12 to https://kolya.eventbrite.com.
(Extreme Horror Cinema)
Cinematographer Freddie Francis provided the gorgeous visuals for classic films from The Innocents to The Elephant Man. But as a director, Francis was relegated to exploitation movies like the late Joan Crawford vehicle Trog and this 1970 horror-comedy about a group that lures hippies to their secluded manor house. Variety called the film, which was also released as Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly, “a macabre combo of Disney and Hammer films.”
Watch the trailer.
Monday, June 12 at 8 p.m. at Smoke and Barrel.
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Also opening this weekend, Tom Cruise is attacked by rats in The Mummy. We’ll have a full review tomorrow.
