DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Ran For the final massive Japanese historical epic of his career, Akira Kurosawa chose to blend the story of the downfall of a real figure from Japanese history — 16th century warlord Mōri Motonari — and Shakespeare’s King Lear. As in the English work, the film centers around a ruler who decides to step down, and…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. My Life to Live The AFI has returned to it’s regular presenting schedule, which means that their Godard retrospective continues marching on. It’s rather appropriate that My Life to Live is the first film to screen after the documentary festival: Godard infused his fourth feature with a realistic energy that came directly from the cinéma vérité…