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Aug 27, 2007

Out of Frame: The King of Kong

Do you have memories of long hours spent in video arcades, slowly becoming desensitized to the flashing lights, the boops, the beeps, the whistles and wails? Of endlessly trying to get the change machine to take that last crumpled dollar, to give you four more games before it was time to head home? Or maybe for you it was a dark-wood-paneled basement at your best friend’s house, where you played an Atari 2600, a Colecovision,…

Aug 22, 2007

Popcorn & Candy: Standing on a Beach

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Stranger Than Paradise “You go to some place new and everything just looks the same,” says Eddie, one of the two hipster-slacker protagonists of Jim Jarmusch’s wickedly funny second feature. Press materials made a big deal of the origin of the film, pointedly calling it “A New American Film by a New American Director.” There’s…

 
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