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…
Washington is about to be overrun by film festivals, so get your comedies and dramas, your Hollywood actors and local wannabes, your serious documentaries and hilarious animations starting tonight. Well, not tonight. Tonight you’ll be at Unbuckled. But the rest of the weekend is your film reel playground! The DC Shorts Film Festival is playing 94 movies by independent filmmakers from all over the world. Most of the festival, which runs until September 21, will…
You’ve got just a brief amount of time to head out and catch the last screening of the DC Shorts Film Festival. At 3 p.m. at the E Street Cinema, the Fest is hosting its finale series, the Lunafest Program, which features 8 short films with a decidedly pro-woman slant to them. Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund. Following the screening, ticket and festival pass holders are invited to a closing night party over at…
FRIDAY: >> Get your read on at the DC Library Public Book Sale Friday & Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. You have a choice of paying $3 or less on Friday and getting access to the best selection, or $2 or less on Saturday for the leftovers. DCist has to work on Fridays, so we’re planning on showing up at 10 a.m. on the dot Saturday…
Apparently the powers that be decided that this particular weekend would be the weekend when all the festivals in the world converged on the D.C. area. In searching for fun things for our beloved readers to do, we kept seeing Festival of This and Festival of That and the Festival of This Kind of Music and the Funky Food Festival, etc. So you know what? Were just gonna list them all. DCist: your one-stop shopping…
