Nov 16, 2009
Bicycle Film Festival Coming to D.C.
With all the cycling-related news in recent weeks – the 15th Street contraflow lane; Mayor Adrian Fenty’s police-escorted daytime training rides; Capitol Hill Bikes closing its doors; Tweed – we’d be remiss in not mentioning that the Bicycle Film Festival is coming to the District. Started in 2001 and now in 39 cities around the world, the festival is making its first appearance here in Washington December 4-5 with a small run of feature…
Mar 06, 2009
Popcorn & Candy: Green Grow the Rushes
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. A still from Return of the Honeybee, which screens Wednesday at the Carnegie Institution. Environmental Film Festival The annual D.C. Environmental Film Festival is a massive collection of films, this year swelling to a total of nearly 140, with screenings at literally dozens of venues–places you’d expect, like E Street, the AFI, and the Avalon, but…
Mar 06, 2008
Popcorn & Candy: Death of the Cool
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Let’s Get Lost Viewing director and photographer Bruce Weber’s footage of Chet Baker just a year before his death, it’s hard not to be reminded of William S. Burroughs. Baker’s face, ravaged by years of heroin addiction, had that same quality of gaunt and sagging flesh as Burroughs’. Both artists aged prematurely thanks to the junk…