One of these days (like maybe tomorrow, depending on time) I will write a column called “A Handy Guide to Really BAD Liz Taylor Movies”, including but not limited to “BOOM!”, “Suddenly Last Summer” and this little movie named “Psychotic” that you get to see for free this week.
I am overqualified for writing it as I have endured more bad Liz Taylor than most people.
And I love (me and) her for it.
In fact, I am going to write to AFI and see if they will let us present a 24 hour “Really BAD Liz Taylor Movie Marathon” this summer.
It would just be the most.

But while I am dreaming my pipe dreams, here is a handy print and carry out guide to all that is good (and bad) and most importantly FREE in cinema in DC this week. Ready?
Probably not.

Wednesday

Aside from the (At this point, ad nauseum mentioned) Jazz Film Series at the Library of Congress at 7pm the Psychotronic Film Society brings you
the aforenoted Liz gem

The Driver’s Seat (or PSYCHOTIC) at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse at 8:30 pm
Brief (but priceless) synopsis:

Elizabeth Taylor stars in this crazy flick about a disturbed woman running thru Italy or some European countryside looking for a lover that she has never met before. Andy Warhol pops up now and then to give Liz the willies. You may need a therapist to understand what is going on as Liz runs around screaming and groping her breast for no apparent reason.

Thursday

Now, as if that wasn’t enough of AWESOME FOR JUST ONE WEEK, it is time for (wait for it……) Roller Disco Cinema at the Library of Congress at 7pm featuring not only “The Unholy Rollers” feature but also a series of shorts which according to their titles, you’d be CRAZY TO MISS: “And then she was bad”, “Fun with the bridal party”, “Door to Door Maniac” and “Personal Health for Girls”. My only question is: Can you wear a romper to the LoC without being judged? Only ONE way to find out.

aside from the rolling and rollicking, the nice Modernist society boys are hosting an evening with Josh Gilbert and screening his movie “a/k/a Tommy Chong” at 9pm at Bourbon. With drink specials.

Friday

International Night!
And decidedly less skeevy than deciding to go to K street lounge too!

Iranian Film Series Kicks Off at the Library of Congress at 7pm with “Through the Olive Trees” while our “Free movies” BFFs over at Freer and Sackler are
showing a screening of “Secret Sunshine” at the exact same time.
Click on links for details and to make all you all-important-free-entertainment decisions.

trailers here for further homework:

Saturday

A few weeks a go after a winter hiatus, I took Joel’s bike down to the mall and saw a movie at the National Gallery’s East Building auditorium. It was surprisingly packed (in a good way) with people aged from 18 to 88 all ready to lap up some art movies in the middle of the day (then you can drink AFTERWARDS, which is kinda the preferred way with art movies, if you ask me)

Anyhoo, if in the mood “I’ll Show You The Town” is showing at 4pm. Granted it is a 1925 silent movie, but it IS comedy, and there IS live music accompaniment.
Can you spell “f.i.r.s.t d.a.t.e?”

Sunday

If you miss Saturday, you can still spend Sunday at the National Gallery. “Caught” is showing at 4:30 pm. This is part of the “Max Ophuls in Hollywood” series and involves the following dramatic conundrum:

Ordinary girl Barbara Bel Geddes eagerly marries into money in the form of sadistic millionaire Robert Ryan. Her new Long Island gothic dream house—darkly and moodily shot in deep noir by cinematographer Lee Garmes—does not satisfy Bel Geddes, however, and she seeks truer happiness in the hands of a poor but appealing doctor (James Mason)

and if a web of murder, intrigue, and repressed sexual feelings circa 1949 is not for you (in which case I am not quite sure we can still be friends)….

Peppermint Candy is showing at Freer Sackler at 2pm which covers (in reverse) the situation in South Korea from 1979 to 1999.
Half of DC just got vaguely aroused reading that sentence.

Anyway, that is all for this week.
Next week: more, including some singing in the Alps.

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