Brightest Young Things

The Fall is officially here. Which means that very soon Library of Congress will reopen their movie doors and the Warehouse will get renovated and everyone will have a million date options that will be both free and STILL hugely impressive. For now though-we are where we are, in the slump of early September.
And while we're there, to supplement the flimsiness of the free movie calendar, I will also recommend a repertoire movie or a festival or two (remember to click on links for further details):

• Don't miss Easy Rider. Sure, it has been around for 40 years now but Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper never really got out-badassed, and their "search for America" is still what counterculture groupie dreams are made of. It is playing for 1 week only @ AFI (with a brand, spanking new 35 mm print), and admit it, you have not been to AFI in too long.

• DC Shorts Festival kicks off this week. Thursday to be precise.
• Not free but cheap (4 or 6 bucks, depending on who you are): TONIGHT Goethe Institut is showing "The Baader Meinhof Komplex" about the militant left in Germany, which has gotten terrific reviews by everyone for its brutal honesty and uncompromising vision.

Moving onto completely free stuff this week now:

THURSDAY
The Capitol Waterfront took a couple of weeks break from their summer movie series and came RIGHT BACK with a Space obsessed couple of weeks for movie fans. Kicking it off is, naturally: Star wars tonight. (an adventure unlike ANYTHING on your planet)

SATURDAY
The (enchanting, bewitching, hypnotic amazing) Alain Resnais movie series continues at National Gallery of art.
Today on offer:
A series of Resnais shorts @ 2pm which includes "Guernica", in which Resnais integrates (in fractured cubist style) motifs from Picasso’s epic painting with Paul Éluard’s poetic text on the besieged Spanish town.

followed by, at 3:30pm with Muriel in which antiques dealer Hélène (Delphine Seyrig, in an award winning haunting performance), residing with her stepson in Boulogne, is attempting to meet up with a former lover. From a seemingly ordinary occurrence, Resnais and writer Jean Cayrol construct an intricate mosaic of memory and conscience.

SUNDAY
Brings us Jean Paul Belmondo as Serge Stavinsky in the saga of celebrated swindler whose rise to political power and scandalous 1934 fall brought France to the brink of collapse—is Resnais’ most unambiguous creation, but also his most elegant and unsettling.

if I missed something, let me know.
Otherwise-there's always next week