It is both accurate and misleading to call Rose of Nevada a time travel movie. Yes, it involves two characters who unwittingly time travel 30 years into the past, but unlike Back to the Future, the heroes of writer and director Mark Jenkin’s latest film don’t treat their problem with much urgency. Jenkin keeps the […]
Thursday: The Jack Rubies at Quarry House In the ’80s, naming your jangle-pop band after an assassin’s assassin seemed like the stuff of B-movies. And in their first iteration, the UK’s Jack Rubies, who formed in a great English tradition (they met in art school), were a college radio staple, playing their big guitar rock […]
Thursday Through Sunday: Beat Ya Feet Kings 20th Anniversary Festival By most accounts, the local street dance style known as Beat Ya Feet was created by go-go fan Marvin “Slush” Gross in the late 1990s before it exploded in popularity by 2002. Since then, Beat Ya Feet has become a defining aspect of go-go culture. […]
June is here and that means it’s time to celebrate Pride all month long. As always, Capital Pride Alliance returns with its full lineup of official events, which kick off June 7 and culminate on Pride Weekend—June 19 through 21—with the annual parade, festival, and concert. But if you’re looking for events beyond the Capital […]
Opens Friday: The House with Laughing Windows at AFI Silver AFI’s Bleak Week programming doesn’t officially begin until June 12, but this grimly atmospheric giallo from 1976 qualifies as a head start. Lino Capolicchio (best known for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, once a staple of local repertory screenings) stars as Stefano, an art restorer […]
Ginkgo trees undergo a beautiful autumn transformation. Where most leaves become red and brown before falling to the ground, ginkgos transition into a vibrant yellow that commands attention. Colloquially called “living fossils,” their size and advanced age adds to their majesty. Ildikó Enyedi, the writer and director of the alluring new drama Silent Friend, takes […]
Blue Heron is a quiet movie. No big-name stars lend it drawing power, and it found a home with a boutique distributor primarily known for historical preservation. On camera, nothing too dramatic happens, and its sensibility is markedly delicate. It’s only playing at a handful of theaters across the country, with a modest promotional campaign […]
When director Alan J. Pakula’s adaptation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s bestselling 1974 nonfiction book All the President’s Men hit theaters on April 9, 1976, it didn’t matter that much of the U.S. had already been stirred by the Washington Post’s shocking reporting on the Watergate scandal. Seeing the exacting efforts by two young […]
Citizen Kane had topped the British Film Institute’s decadalSight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time for half a century, but in 2012, the earth moved. Vertigo, the purest, most entrancing expression of director Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive and controlling worldview, moved up to the No. 1 spot, some 54 years after its […]
Saturday: Béton Armé and Seclusion at Comet Ping Pong It is hard to imagine a punk bill that’s worth stretching one’s bedtime more than Saturday’s at Comet. Montreal’s Béton Armé have quickly become one of the most buzzed-about punk bands, having won over a U.S. audience that is usually allergic to songs sung in any […]
The 2026 Capital Irish Film Festival presented by Solas Nua at AFI Silver Theatre has more crowd-pleasers than usual for its 20th year, which includes 18 features and several shorts programs. From Feb. 26 through March 1, the D.C.-based organization dedicated to promoting contemporary Irish arts, screens sports dramas, coming-of-age romances, and a heist thriller. […]