DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Night of the Hunter It seems that there have been a lot of film noir picks in this column in recent months, and the AFI’s current Robert Mitchum retrospective isn’t exactly helping us break the habit. This week, though, features the best of the lot, with Mitchum’s chilling turn as a Gospel-spouting murderer who marries…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant must feel like he has a lot of artistic penance to pay. Ever since the backlash over his remake of Psycho and the tired, sickly sweet inspirational sports/school clichés of Finding Forrester, the director has retreated into a self-imposed anti-commercial exile. The three previous features he’s made during the ’00s have…

FRIDAY: >> There have only been a handful of actors in this world who are genuine badasses. Robert Mitchum. Robert Redford. Robert Loggia. Any of the Roberts, really. And then there’s Kris Kristofferson. This is a guy who has hung out with both Sam Peckinpah and Janis Joplin, been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and oh, makes time to kill a few vampires on the weekends. Dude is so virile a gal could…