While next week is going to be the big free movie fun time with Screen on The Green Kicking Off, The National Gallery launching their Antonioni and Kubrick tributes and so on and so forth, this week STILL has some pretty good stuff in store for those of you who have already seen Wall-E, AND Iron Man AND Get Smart AND Indiana Jones AND….you get the picture.
Bonus: there are no snack stands at any of these so just bring your snow caps in your bag.
so, today is
Tuesday
and Tomas Tykver’s follow up to “Run Lola Run” (also starring his then girlfriend Franka Potente before she dumped him for a fling with Matt Damon)
The Princess & The Warrior is playing @ the Library of Congress at 7pm
Set in the city of Wuppertal, the metaphysical Princess and the Warrior is heavily concerned with fate, chance encounters, sheer coincidence. Sissi (Potente), a nurse at a psychiatric hospital, gets hit by a truck on her way to the bank. Her life is saved by Bodo (Fürmann), an ex-army officer on the run from police. After her recovery, Sissi is determined to find her savior, and when she does, refuses to accept his rejection.
Wednesday
We’ve got the Psychotronics powering through (for the second time this year) 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
Why screen on the green is kicking off with “Dr. No” when The James Bond series has already been going on all summer is kind of beyond me but tonight you get to see Roger Moore in all his glory in The Spy Who Loved Me @ Capitol Plaza featuring the theme song by Carly Simon, Barbara Bach BEFORE she married Ringo Star and that crazy skiining opening sequence
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Also on offer Lance Hendriksen as a gangster in
The Outfit @ Library of Congress at 7pm
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and perfect homework before you go see H.R. (do his solo stuff) at Velvet Lounge this weekend:
Live @ CBGB’s: Bad Brains & Dead Boys at The Cat Backstage at 9pm
Friday
The MOSFilm studio series closes out with a double bill of
July Rain & Courier @ National Gallery of Art @ 2:30 which requires you to not be employed to see it
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a very promisingly titled
Poor White Trash @ Library of Congress at 7pm which pits a soulful, menacing Cajun named Ulysees (Carey) against a boring Yankee architect played by Peter Graves. This drive-in classic provided Carey with his most substantial role outside of The World’s Greatest Sinner, and he takes full advantage of it, from his Brooklyn-on-the-Bayou accent to an incantatory dance sequence that ranks among the most unusual terpsichorean performances ever committed to celluloid.
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a Hong Kong Classic
Exiled @ Freer Sackler which Glenn Kenny (one of my favorite movie critics of all time-ed) of (the late and great) Premiere Magazine calls “one of his most assured, enjoyable pictures, refreshing fun that’s sure to satisfy anyone’s action jones.” In the anxious atmosphere of Macau’s final days as a Portuguese colony in 1998, four hitmen resolve to team up for one final big score before the island is handed over to Chinese rule.
Saturday
Is a pretty good time to catch up with
The Cinema Effect Part 2 Special Screenings @ Hirshhorn which you have been missing as they keep insisting on playing at noon during work days. It is a double bill, so click on the link for details.
and on
Sunday
If you missed it, since you had more important things to do on Friday, take a stroll on the Mall, enjoy the Asian garden in front and then leisurely adrenaline up on Exiled again @ Freer & Sackler at 2pm
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