Brightest Young Things

You know the drill: by virtue of living in DC you have access to all sorts of free events. In this column we try to get you to get off your bottom and go see some movies. It won't cost you anything.
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MONDAY
As part of Solas Nua's free irish movies once a month (with free popcorn), tonight we have the showing of Short Order @ Flashpoint where Rade Serbedzija and John Hurt chew some culinary underbelly scenery while Fifi Koko falls prey to an existential quagmire that fears her talent shall not overcome the expectations her reputation has sown.

Dollar movie night @ Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse is tonight and while skipping 2012 is a-ok, you should try and make it for "The Man Who Stare at Goats"

TUESDAY
Washington Psychotronics do what they do best with this showing of 1982's Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave @ The Warehouse featuring Black Magic, animated corpses, people pissing their pants, and hopping Chinese zombies, and this amazing Count Dracula fight scene:

WEDNESDAY
Iranian Film Festival continues today at 7pm with An Iranian Oddissey @ Freer Sackler set in 1951 which follows Iran’s new prime minster, Mohammad Mossadegh, attempts to nationalize the country’s oil industry, which had been monopolized for decades by a British company.

THURSDAY
For jazz lover out there, a must see: Thelonious Monk, Straight No Chaser shows at 6:30pm @ American Art Museum which in neat 90 minutes combines archival footage of Monk in the studio, on tour, and off stage with interviews with his family and colleagues to shed light on the extraordinary life of a reclusive genius.

FRIDAY
Highly anticipated Shirin @ Freer Sackler (also part of the Iranian film festival, and showing on Sunday as well) is Abbas Kiarostami’s investigation into the interplay between performance and audience, cinema and theater, fact and fiction. Its subject is the faces of 112 Iranian actress (plus French actress Juliette Binoche) as they watch a performance of Shirin, a tragic love story based on a famous twelfth-century Persian poem.

SATURDAY
Checkhov's film series wraps up with the 2:30 pm screening of The Seagull @ National Gallery of Art, a cinematic adaptation of one of his most famous plays, directed by Yuli Karasik and featuring a cast of some of the biggest Russian movies stars in the 60s, and 70s: Alla Demidova, Yuri Yakovlev, and Lyudmila Savelyeva. Get ready for some well mannered friction.

That is all.
Let us know if we missed anything.