DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Amazing Mr. Bickford and Does Humor Belong in Music? Frank Zappa and Congress are no strangers. It was over 20 years ago that the musician testified before a Senate subcommittee largely representing the interests of their wives and their little killjoy club, the Tipper Gore-led Parents’ Music Resource Center. Thankfully, at least one member of…

FRIDAY: >> The EU Film Showcase kicked off at the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center last weekend, and we’ll have a little more about it for you this weekend. In the meantime film buffs should consider checking out Bergman Island, a documentary by another Swedish filmmaker, Marie Nyeröd, that visits legendary director Ingmar Bergman at his home on the island of Fårö. Now 88 years old, this is no doubt the final document of…

FRIDAY: >> We caught Echo and the Bunnymen in Lancaster, PA back in May, the night before HFStival, and it was one of the best shows we’ve seen all year. It’s too bad singer Ian MacCulloch’s voice didn’t hold up the next day at M&T Bank Stadium. But we’re willing to let the band off the hook for that, provided they play a great show tonight at the Black Cat. Recent European setlists have mixed…