DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Stranger Than Paradise “You go to some place new and everything just looks the same,” says Eddie, one of the two hipster-slacker protagonists of Jim Jarmusch’s wickedly funny second feature. Press materials made a big deal of the origin of the film, pointedly calling it “A New American Film by a New American Director.” There’s…

>> Anyone born before 1985 can surely appreciate the simple joys of 8-bit electronic entertainment. Filmfest DC presents a documentary about a complex Iowa man fighting to retain his title as World Champion of Donkey Kong. King of Kong delves into the unique lives of people involved in this epic battle. [4000 Wisconsin Ave. NW, $9, 7 p.m.] >> Unbuckled alums Pela join Metropolitan and Five Four at Rock and Roll Hotel tonight. [1353…

Written by DCist contributor Menachem Wecker. The city’s going to get a little bit wild this Sunday when the National Gallery of Art opens Jungles of Paris, Henri Rousseau’s first retrospective in twenty years. But even if you haven’t seen his work recently in exhibitions, Rousseau is everywhere. You can find references to his work in many children’s book illustrations, like Henry Hikes to Fitchburg or Madeline, in a Joni Mitchell song, and even in…