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Apr 15, 2010

Popcorn & Candy: Too Much to See

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. A still from Valery Todorovsky’s ‘Hipsters’, tonight’s opening night film for FilmFest DC. FilmFest DC The 24th annual FilmFest DC gets underway tonight with an opening night screening of Russian filmmaker Valeriy Todorovskiy’s, Hipsters, a brightly colored musical comedy piece about a group of jazz & western-culture obsessed youths in the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s….

Mar 09, 2009

Psychotronic Films Warehoused in New Home

It’s been a roller coaster of a year for the Washington Psychotronic Film Society. But Dr. Schlock & friends have finally found a new (and hopefully stable) home at The Warehouse, where they’ll take up weekly residence beginning March 17. For those who haven’t been following the play-by-play of the whole saga, let’s recap. First, WPFS lost its longtime home when Dr. Dremo’s finally met with the inevitable and went condo. After spending much…

Mar 19, 2008

Return of the Washington Psychotronic Film Society

One of the unfortunate bits of collateral damage associated with the closing of Dr. Dremo’s was that the Washington Psychotronic Film Society was rendered homeless as well. WPFS has been in operation in the D.C. area for 20 years now, and housed their weekly screenings of eclectic films at Dremo’s since 2000. For my own part, I can remember discovering them around that time, as I was a frequent visitor to the downstairs pool room…

 
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