THE ACT OF KILLING director Joshua Oppenheimer talks about his Academy Award-nominated film, the long process of filming, and how the Indonesian government has reacted to it.
Hear a recording of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech to the 1941 Academy Awards.
The 85th Academy Awards ended on a bit of a surprise when the Michelle Obama presented the Best Picture prize live from the White House.
It’s great when there is actually a reason to turn Sunday into funday. Check out a curation of pre-Oscar coverage including articles from the Post, BYT’s best parties and humor from The Onion.
This week we’ve got the classy (the Powell/Pressburger epic ballet masterpiece, The Red Shoes) to the trashy, as E Street plays 3D porn at midnight. We’ve also got the latest from the world’s oldest active filmmaker, a potential guilty pleasure in the making from Liam Neeson, and more Academy Award nominee screenings.
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Coraline Neil Gaiman writes scary stories. Honestly scary. Few writers working today are able to summon the eerie landscape of our nightmares better. These aren’t the hokey bigtime evil scares that usually pass for modern horror. His are the quiet, personal, “things that go bump in the night and just might have nefarious plans” kind of…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Foreign: Stalker Revered in his prime as perhaps one of the best filmmakers Russia ever produced, Andrei Tarkovsky built his reputation on just seven feature films. As is so often the case, some of the most poignant art comes from those artists who must fight to bring their vision to an audience. Tarkovsky’s films, often restless…
> > Deadline worth noting! Anyone interested in participating in this year’s DC Idiotarod has until tomorrow, Thursday March 1, at 11:59 p.m. to register your team for the big race on March 3. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to bring wanton chaos to the streets of D.C. [DC Idiotarod] > > Fans of soccer, wine, photography, and philanthropy will descend upon the JW Marriott tonight for the Goals for Girls Auction & Wine…
This Sunday, celebrity fashion will be mocked, pools of nominees will be pored over, and Chris Rock will be unleashed to lambaste an unsuspecting Hollywood. It’s time for the Oscars — that four-plus-hours long glitz fest that transfixes the entertainment world once a year. While it may seem half a world away from Washington, D.C., at least one local company, State of the Art, Inc., will be among the contenders vying for Academy recognition. State…
