Popcorn & Candy was DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibit Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe, the National Gallery of Art is screening a 35mm print of director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1971 adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, based on a Russian translation by Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago). According to the Gallery, Estonian actor Jüri Järvet “is arguably the best Lear ever rendered on stage or screen.” Whoah!
Sunday, March 11 at 4 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium. Free.
The AFI Silver’s 14th annual New African Film Festival continues this weekend with this Nollywood rom-com about a Nigerian chef (Zainab Balogun) whose failure to open an Afro-fusion restaurant in London sends her back home to run her family’s struggling hotel. When her parents decide to sell the place, the buyer (former Mr. Nigeria Kenneth Okolie) may have more than business on his mind.
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Saturday, March 10 and Monday, March 12 at the AFI Silver.
Talented golfer Harvey (Jerry Lewis) is too shy to follow his father’s lead as a golf pro. Instead, Harvey becomes an instructor–starting with his fiancee’s brother (Dean Martin). The Mary Pickford Theatre at the Library of Congress pays homage to the late Lewis with this Norma Taurog-directed comedy full of howls and laughter. Martin, who scored a soundtrack hit with “That’s Amore,” confessed that he “couldn’t remember the last time had so much fun making a picture.” Crazy, man, crazee!
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Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m. Mary Pickford Theatre, third floor of the Madison Building, Library of Congress. Free. Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Correction: the screening was Tuesday, March 13; I hope nobody missed it on my account; If it’s any consolation, I missed it too!
Next week the Washington Psychotronic Film Society presents this early work from Brian DePalma starring Robert DeNiro as a peeping tom turned militant black activist. And in case you missed it, this week DCPL’s Ray Barker invited me and my co-author Robert Headley to his Notes from the Library podcast to talk about our upcoming Arcadia book on DC-area movie theaters. Carl Cephas and Jonathan Couchenour joined us to talk about the WPFS. Wait for Carl as he tells us about a VERY special film!
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Monday, March 12 at 8 p.m. at Smoke and Barrel.
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Also opening this week, Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy star in the teenage psychological thriller Thoroughbreds. Read my review in The Washington Post.
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