12 YEARS A SLAVE carries director Steve McQueen’s interest in the demands of the body to a logical level: what of the demands on man unfairly imprisoned?

Addictions are time-consuming disorders. There’s the time spent finding the object(s) of your addiction, the time spent actually engaging in them, the time spent dealing with the highs and lows, and the time required to cover up and compensate for all of those activities in your straight life. Of course, life in general can be hard enough to keep everything balanced; add in an addiction, and there’s that many more balls to keep in the air. Steve McQueen’s new film, Shame, shows what happens when they all come crashing down.

Though a tad blurry, we can forgive Flickr user furcafe since he caught this slightly surrealist moment at the first Screen on the Green this summer, during The Day the Earth Stood Still. If it ain’t too hot out for you, you’re probably crazy enough to brave the heat advisory and check out tonight’s showing of Bullitt. And if it starts to cool down, Steve McQueen will be there to bring back the hott….

It’s the moment that those who are spending summer in the city have been waiting for: Screen on the Green! Even underage interns can come out for the cinematastic fun. Now in its seventh year of converting the National Mall into an outdoor movie theatre, this year’s line-up proves to be just as entertaining as the one from last year. Monday, July 17: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Plagued by fear and apathy,…