Films

On the last Sunday that Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library was closed to the public, two professional ballet dancers whirled through the historic building’s newly renovated space. The dancers, Alexandra Hutchinson and Derek…

Washington, DC, may bring home an Oscar this Sunday. Mike Capbarat, currently a producer for the DC-based storytelling studio Duke & Duck, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as a producer of “Burrow” from…

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicked off its all-virtual programming on Thursday, featuring over 100 films from around the world. Last year, the festival was canceled just as it was slated to begin because of…

Painted City is a charming 26-minute documentary about Perry Frank’s passion for cataloging and preserving murals throughout the District. At a time when gentrification is leading to the destruction of many of these paintings in DC, Frank…

This week’s openings include two very different crime stories, one set in present-day Milan and the other in 19th-century Oregon. Also on screen, the New African Film Festival continues; unfortunately, due to coronavirus-related temporary…

This week’s openings include two movies that depict the evil that men do for the sake of money. Also on screen are a Polish drama of faith, an American buddy comedy about the Christian film industry, and a documentary about a Brussels…

This week’s openings include a political drama set in 1970s East Germany and a documentary about one of the defining American rock groups of that decade. The Capital Irish Film Festival offers a documentary of The Troubles, and repertory…

This week’s openings include a harrowing drama of post-war Leningrad and a present-day tale of dance and sexuality in a former Soviet territory, the country of Georgia. Repertory offerings include a late-career masterpiece from Abbas…

A common thread runs throughout this week’s Valentine’s Day openings: depictions of women at work, from a fictional itinerant painter to documentary portraits of a celebrated movie critic and a biologist whose work should be better known.…

This week’s openings include a timely story of workplace harassment and an epic about Italian organized crime. Upcoming repertory screenings include more from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, and, in an archival 35-mm print, a classic…

This week’s openings include three programs of Oscar-nominated short films, while repertory offerings include recent features from Iran and Turkey as well as a classic Japanese ghost story. Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective…

This week’s openings include a better-than-average Nicolas Cage freakout feature and a documentary about a Russian oligarch turned political prisoner. In repertory, an Iranian film takes us to a village whose residents seem invincible, and…

There’s always trouble somewhere on the planet, and many of this week’s screenings, from new titles to classics, depict a past or present, real or fictional problem around the globe. Openings include a pair of intriguing foreign films,…

This week’s new films include two dramas set on death row. If that seems like an unusual coincidence, there’s a common theme of justice and forgiveness that runs through even more of this week’s offerings, including the biopic of a German…

After a slew of high-profile holiday openings, 2020 begins with a pair of compelling new films, one a tropical melodrama and the other a 3D documentary about one of the dance world’s most challenging artists. Also on screen is an…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to notable movie screenings in the coming week. This week’s openings include potential Oscar front-runners, and repertory offerings include sobering Christmas fare to go…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. RICHARD JEWELL There aren’t a lot of leading dramatic roles for an actor…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. LITTLE JOE Oh, the plant kingdom! Its delicious species supply us with…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. WHITE SNAKE (GKIDS) This new fantasy from the Chinese studio Light…

Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week. SYNONYMS This semi-autobiographical film from writer-director Nadav Lapid…