DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The sad final chapter of the career of Heath Ledger comes to a close with the opening of his incomplete performance in Terry Gilliam’s colorful, carnival-esque fantasy. Gilliam had completed most of the location shooting for the film when Ledger died of an accidental toxic interaction of prescription drugs in January…

Franz Kafka ordered his friend Max Brod to burn his incomplete novel The Trial after his death in 1924; Brod edited and published it instead. Although written more than 80 years ago, the book was so prescient in its portrayal of a idly malevolent bureaucracy that it feels timeless. Christopher Gallu has written a new adaptation for Catalyst Theatre Company (where he is Producing Artistic Director), and here he steps into some mammoth shoes:…

Once upon a time, I spent an extended car ride in the backseat with my six year old cousin. She was lost in her own play world, issuing a steady monologue as she went, until suddenly she hit upon a phrase that struck me. “The window has rotten teeth,” she said, amid gales of laughter. To this day, I don’t know what she meant. I should have asked Terry Gilliam during the Q&A after last…