Another week, another multitude of quality movie entertainment for little or no money offered on screens bigger than your TV. DC may have a 12.5% unemployment rate right now but it definitely has the best free entertainment in the country. Baby steps.
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MONDAY
Dollar Movie Night @ Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse today brings us the double Oscar-bait whammy that is the combination of Coen brothers’ latest A Serious Man and the feel good movie of the Year that is Precious. Luckily for you we’ve written about these movies as they came out, so you can know what you’re getting yourself into:
TUESDAY
WPFS shows the very promising sounding exploitation movie documentary starring Steve Buscemi (right? it just keeps sounding better and better) “Film House Fever” at 8pm @ The Warehouse
WEDNESDAY
Get your (quality) anime fix this week with Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers @ Japanese Cultural Center which tells the the unlikely tale of three misfits brought together by fate and misfortune. When one of their routine dumpster dives uncovers an unexpected treasure that expands their makeshift family, adventure ensues. FREE BUT RSVP IS REQUIRED-SO RSVP.
Not a movie screening per se, but worth checking out if you’re “in the industry” or aspiring to be: DC Film Salon at US Navy Archives offers budding film and video makers a chance to network.
THURSDAY
Drink and a Movie series continues at the Black Cat with the screening of “Dr. StrangeLove”, possibly one of the smartest, funniest, most subversive (while being more obvious than most people would ever dare be) movies of all time.
Remember: NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!
At the same time, get ready to celebrate Nigerian cinema every Thursday, starting with Nollywood Babylon at 6:30pm @ African Art Museum which chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early 1990s to describe the world’s fastest-growing national cinema that is surpassed only by Bollywood, its Indian counterpart.
FRIDAY
Two Legged Horse @ Freer Sackler at 7pm (also playing on Sunday at 2pm) continues the 2010 Iranian Film Festival and has been deemed a “powerful film allegory about power and servitude” in which a wealthy child with no legs hires a poor boy named Mervais, who lives in abandoned sewer pipes at the edge of a remote village in Afghanistan, to carry him around on his back like a horse, for a dollar a day.
SATURDAY
For those more into manners and wondering what that book Kate Winslet loves in “The Reader” is, we recommend checking out the next installment of the Chekhov film series: The Lady with the Dog at 2:30pm @ National Gallery of Art
That’s all we’re aware of. Let us know what we missed/what you’re excited to see this week.
The good Dr was my pick for funniest movie. Not the winning pick, sadly.
February 1, 2010 at 12:49 pm