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Out of Frame: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

From there, Herzog and screenwriter William M. Finkelstein make an entirely different movie, using New Orleans in the early post-Katrina months as the backdrop for a story of drug abuse, gambling, drinking, corruption, and crime, the majority of which ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brad Dourif,  Eva Mendes,  Edward G. Robinson

Popcorn & Candy: Unfinished Business

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Lost in La Mancha proved that documentaries about aborted films could be compelling films in their own right. Failure is ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Ford,  John Wayne,  Eli Roth,  Werner Herzog,  Abel Ferrara

Out of Frame: The Messenger

starts with loss, as Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) has one last bittersweet meeting with his girlfriend, who met another man while he was off to war. It's a gentle way of ushering the audience into a movie that is all about loss on a ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Will Montgomery,  Ben Foster,  Woody Harrelson,  Oren Moverman,  Samantha Morton

Popcorn & Candy: Super-Toy Super-Hero

Precious has quickly become the darling of the festival circuit, and, especially after winning the People's Choice Award at Toronto this fall, has moved into front-runner status for a Best Picture Oscar. Last year's winner of that award, Slumdog ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gabourey Sidibe,  Oprah Winfrey,  Lenny Kravitz,  Mo'Nique,  Mariah Carey

What's Old is New Again: Theater J's Lost in Yonkers

Despite its World War II period setting and the old-fashioned feel of its Broadway by way of the Catskills laughs, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers feels remarkably of the moment. A father is driven to bankruptcy trying to take care of his dying wife. ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Neil Simon

Popcorn & Candy: Frightmare Theater

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Devil's Night falls on a Friday this year, so why is it that the studios aren't taking advantage? There's not a single ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Library of Congress,  Nicholas Cage,  Ti West,  Tom Noonan

Weekly Music Agenda

Our apologies for missing Monday and Tuesday. Better late than never, here's your abbreviated music agenda. WEDNESDAY >> Monsters of indie pop Andrew Bird and St. Vincent are in town tonight for a long since sold out show at the 9:30 Club. To those ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Bird,  Mike Doughty,  Craigslist.org,  NPR,  Soul Coughing (musician)

Out of Frame: Crude

Berlinger spends much of the movie as a fly on the wall with lawyers from the plaintiff's side. Pablo Fajardo is an idealistic young Ecuadorian who has pretty much lived this case ever since graduating from law school. He is guided by Steven Donzinger, ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vanity Fair,  Chevron Corporation

Popcorn & Candy: You Only Hurt the One You Love

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Charlotte Gainsbourg takes a reflective breather between bouts of bloody mayhem in Von Trier's Antichrist. Lars Von ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lars von Trier,  Willem Dafoe,  Chris Marker,  David Frost,  Takashi Miike

DCist Interview: Sarah Silverman

Over 60 comics are about to descend on D.C. for the Bentzen Ball, a four day collection of comedy performances at venues ranging from the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat to the Studio and Lincoln Theatres, and even Ben's Chili Bowl. Presented by our ...

From IAN BUCKWALTER, DCist,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Silverman,  Patton Oswalt,  Peter Sellers

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