pt film and stage
Friday, March 20: Hit up the Freer Gallery tonight for the DC premiere of 24 City, a Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke warning of the Perils of Capitalism. 24 City illustrates the country’s changing landscape — a citywide factory park, over the course of three generations, becomes a giant complex of luxury apartments. 7PM. [...]
DC surely isn’t Tribeca or Cannes, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t have its own fancy film festival. In case you haven’t gone to the DC Independent Film Festival yet, you have until Sunday to catch a glimpse of acclaimed indie films from across the globe. And there’s live music after each show. [DCIFF]
Friday, March 6: Brightest Young Things is screening Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at AFI in Silver Spring. It starts at 9:15PM, and there’s a party right after. Also, there’s going to be a make-out teepee! [BYT]
Friday, Feb. 27: The Ramallah-based Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque perform Alive from Palestine: Stories Under Occupation, a “response to the conflict of their homeland.” A reviewer from The Independent in London calls it something between “news and propaganda,” but it’s kind of hard to imagine Hamas coming up with something so creative (although, Hamas Mouse [...]
The Accident is basically the plot of horror flick I Know What You Did Last Summer, except instead of teen heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt, you have two old Jewish couples. The victim is Chinese, and the couples wonder whether it’s even worth it to tell the [...]
You know the story: Jean Valjean steals the candlesticks, adopts the street rat, is harassed by Inspector Javert forever and dies. The end. Catch the Signature Theater’s production of Les Miserables before it ends on Feb. 22. [Signature Theatre]
Friday, Feb. 6: The Freer Gallery is screening Loose Rope tonight, a Persian film about two men who must deliver a cow to the northern part of Tehran in 24 hours, or else their jobs are at stake. Sounds like a typical American movie, except you’d have to replace “cow” with “cocaine” and “Tehran” with [...]
Friday, Jan 30: Poet Bomani Armah begs you not to call him a rapper at his spoken word performances, which are a cross between an underground hip hop show and an episode of HBO’s Def Poetry. His lyrics are a bit aggressive, although you know he only has the best intentions: “Read a book, read [...]
Say “hi” to our fancy new intern, Malaka Gharib. She writes a crazy restaurant thing for the D.C. Examiner, and also does production at Al Jazeera in Washington, and has this crazy food blog too. And she will be writing about all of those types of things, and also music and movies and etc. Hooray!
