Brightest Young Things

The fall is almost here. And with the fall, DC museums and cultural institutes return from their summer slumber and schedule up a mass of free entertainment for you to enjoy. Here is a handy guide to this week: click on links for more details, print it, send it along to your friends, do stuff....

MONDAY
Batman Begins is playing at Crystal Screen. I know people are obsessed with this movie but I STILL cannot get over the ridiculousness of Christian Bale's voice in it. Its like a built-in movie ruiner.

TUESDAY
Washington Psychotronic society returns after a hiatus with KONGA featuring a giant ape completely and utterly unrelated to King Kong.

WEDNESDAY
Japanese Cultural Center shows Adrift in Tokyo (for which you MUST RSVP) about taking a walk with a loan shark around Tokyo. Only, of course, it is not as simple as that.

THURSDAY
Capitol Waterfront continues its Space movies series tonight with Toy Story which is still everything you remember it being: as in, AWESOME.

FRIDAY
If you have time in the middle of the day check out Resnais' Melo @ National Gallery of Art

and after work and before going out go to Freer & Sackler for a showing of When the Full Moon Rises in which hard-boiled crime reporter stumbles onto the strangest story of his life when his car breaks down outside a spooky town being terrorized by a man-hungry lady vampire.

SATURDAY
The Resnais series at National Gallery of Art continues with a double whammy of Mon Oncle D'Amerique a compare and contrast study of three ordinary humans—a would-be mogul, a left-leaning actress, and a plant manager of modest means—with laboratory mice

and Same Old Song Renais’ merrily romantic musical is accomplished with a cadre of his favorite actors, including Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, and André Dussollier. Six characters dash around their beautifully stylized Paris, negotiating relationships and, at serendipitous moments, erupting into vintage song (à la Dennis Potter) with comic effect

and wrapping the week up with
SUNDAY
A Month Of Hungry Ghosts at Freer & Sackler which mines the fact that every year in parts of Asia, during the seventh lunar month, it is believed that the gates of hell open, and all the souls are set free to wander the earth and fulfill their past needs, wants, and desires.

and Resnais' Coeurs (or "Private Fears in Public Places")

Till next week...