DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Stop Making Sense Concert films are a notoriously disappointing bunch, promising the excitement of front row tickets and a backstage pass to a band’s live show, but usually just delivering yawns and the realization that there’s no substitute for actually being there. And then there’s Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, a film which redefined the genre….

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Apartment There’s a scene early on in The Apartment where Jack Lemmon’s C.C. Baxter is talking to the object of his affection, a certain Miss Kubelik, an elevator operator at his office played by Shirley MacLaine. Baxter reveals that his position at the insurance company they work for allows him access to employee files, and…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Labyrinth Jim Henson continued to indulge the darker doors of his mind that he’d thrown wide open with The Dark Crystal in this, regrettably his last feature film. How a film made by Jim Henson and George Lucas, and starring David Bowie managed to tank as badly as this did upon release is a mystery,…

As if a rainy Monday wasn’t enough, we get a partly cloudy Tuesday, too. It’s May, the “April showers” should be wrapped up, already. How about viewing May flowers behind a backdrop of blue sky, not slate gray? A little cheery history for all you Muppet fans out there: on May 9th, 1955, University of Maryland alum Jim Henson’s first show, Sam and Friends, debuted on WRC-TV here in Washington. Sam and Friends laid the…