While the rest of America is spending their hard earned dollars to make Hollywood even richer, how about you motivate and show up at one of these programs, and make EVEN more free, high quality entertainment available to poor, overworked, underpaid DC area residents? DO IT.
First off, don’t forget that the embassies are showing free short movies till June 13th.
That in mind, here are your other options:
Wednesday
We’ve got the Psychotronics powering through Gandahar @ Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse (8:30 pm) which involves Isaac Asimov adapting this French animated film by Jean-Pierre Andrevon about some bad-ass outer space aliens setting out to destroy another freaky-deaky alien paradise. The animation looks like somebody tied a paint brush to a baboon’s ass and made it dance. Featuring the voices of Penn and Teller, David Johansen, Christopher Plummer and Paul Shaffer.
Thursday
is always a big, fat, free movie day and this one is no different:
Those in the mood for some British realism can hustle over to:
Red, White & Zero @ Library of Congress (7 pm)
some serious escapism rolls out when “The Summer Camp” series commences with
It Came from Beneath the Sea @ The Hirshhorn (7 pm)
and, as reliable as clock work, James Bond is made for danger, sex and picnicing
You Only Live Twice @ Capitol Plaza (at dusk)
Friday
Two somewhat disparate choices (Which is probably better, as they both start at the same time)
After the free jazz in the sculpture garden, just hop a museum over for the
Dragon Gate Inn @ Freer Sackler (7 pm) an iconic martial arts film. Its astonishing fight sequences, which were inspired by the rhythms of Beijing Opera, set a new standard for the genre, and its heroine, a no-nonsense fighter capable of dispatching dozens of enemies with her sword, spawned legions of imitators. (among others Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang)
alternatively, check this out:
Queen of Burlesque / Tiger Fangs @ Library of Congress (7 pm) which sounds very promising:
Killer show girls and crazed flesh eating tigers are at the center of our B-picture double bill. First, competition between dancers on the burlesque stage leads to blackmail and a series of murders in Queen of Burlesque . Variety noted this “routine murder” mystery as “adequate” but with “dialogue of questionable taste.” The film boasts song and dance numbers popular in 40’s burlesque houses and features the “original TNT girl” Rose La Rose in a supporting role. Then in Tiger Fangs , an East Asian rubber plantation is terrorized by tigers and the American government, in need of rubber for the war effort, sends a world famous explorer to investigate. The locals believe the animals are possessed by evil spirits but clues lead to the work of a Nazi saboteur
Saturday
Rise and shine to National Gallery’s celebration of Gabriel Figueroa, the most important cinematographer of the golden age of Spanish Cinema. A brilliant master of chiaroscuro, he developed a unique style based on his principle of “curvilinear perspective” that merged the latest Hollywood technique with the pictorial art of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and Rufino Tamayo.
2 Movies on show today present his skills in all their glory:
Enamorada @ National Gallery of Art (2 pm)
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La Perla @ National Gallery of Art (4 pm)
Alternatively, pay money and go see
Funny Face @ Hillwood (at dusk), mainly because I think its 100% worth it.
Sunday
Are you all free-movied-out by now?
Me too.
However, it is going to be 92 degrees and you may want to hide indoors, so two more options, one Asian and one Russian, are up for your picking.
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A Touch of Zen @ Freer Sackler (2:00 pm)
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The Thirteen @ National Gallery of Art (4:30 pm)
Next week-more of the same.
Michael, do you know what time and if there’s an age requirement for Red Derby? I’d reaaaally like to see that.
June 4, 2008 at 4:14 pmI want to say The Red Derby is 21+ as it is “just” a bar, but I have only been carded at the bar, not at the door before.
June 4, 2008 at 4:28 pmi’ve been carded at the door
June 4, 2008 at 4:34 pmI just called and they said they were not 21+ but that after 7 or so it gets busy and they will start making decisions on who can come in (obviously they want people of age to drink).
Still trying to verify if they are going to put the damn sound on or not.
June 4, 2008 at 5:48 pmunder 21 is ok but after a certain hour we usually go 21+..as far as the sound for the movie if it’s early enough sure…what time did you want to start the movie?
June 5, 2008 at 1:10 amThanks for the info. Age be damned.
June 5, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Quadrophenia is at the Red Derby on Thursday night. I tried to add a bunch of stuff using the calendar hoping they’d show up on the right side of the page, but apparently I’m a retard.
June 4, 2008 at 2:11 pm