AFI in Silver Spring is having their Silent Cinema Showcase, and it’s a great lineup! You can see the listing by film here: https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000011 And on the calendar here: http://afi.com/silver/films/Calendar.aspx This calendar below was accurate as of 11/2, but be sure to check the live one because they update things sometimes. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday … Continue reading “Silent Cinema Showcase 2017”
AFI in Silver Spring is having their Silent Cinema Showcase, and it’s a great lineup!
You can see the listing by film here: https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000011
And on the calendar here: http://afi.com/silver/films/Calendar.aspx
This calendar below was accurate as of 11/2, but be sure to check the live one because they update things sometimes.
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Did you know that in addition to their 100 Greatest Films list, AFI also has a list of the top 100 romantic movies of all time? Here are AFI’s top 10 romantic movies in our collection: # MOVIE YEAR 1 CASABLANCA (HU DVD 150) 1942 2 GONE WITH THE WIND (HU DVD 9) 1939 3 … Continue reading “Celebrate Valentine’s Day with one of AFI’s 100 Passions”
Did you know that in addition to their 100 Greatest Films list, AFI also has a list of the top 100 romantic movies of all time?
Here are AFI’s top 10 romantic movies in our collection:
| # | MOVIE | YEAR |
| 1 | CASABLANCA (HU DVD 150) | 1942 |
| 2 | GONE WITH THE WIND (HU DVD 9) | 1939 |
| 3 | WEST SIDE STORY (HU DVD 278) | 1961 |
| 4 | ROMAN HOLIDAY (HU DVD 4938) | 1953 |
| 5 | AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (HU DVD 5097) | 1957 |
| 6 | THE WAY WE WERE (HU DVD 3087) | 1973 |
| 7 | DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (HU DVD 4570) | 1965 |
| 8 | IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (HU DVD 1782) | 1946 |
| 9 | LOVE STORY (HU DVD 9090) | 1970 |
| 10 | CITY LIGHTS (HU DVD 3801) | 1931 |
AFI Docs has arrived! For one week every summer, the American Film Institute takes over DC, hosting five days of screenings for new documentaries and documentary shorts. AFI Docs attracts top talent from around the world – including, this year, a special event with Werner Herzog and his new film Lo and Behold. Tickets for … Continue reading “AFI Docs begins tonight with a Werner Herzog treat on Friday”
AFI Docs has arrived! For one week every summer, the American Film Institute takes over DC, hosting five days of screenings for new documentaries and documentary shorts. AFI Docs attracts top talent from around the world – including, this year, a special event with Werner Herzog and his new film Lo and Behold.
Tickets for Herzogpalooza are already sold out, but there are plenty of other documentaries to watch this week in downtown DC and Silver Spring. Highlights include…
The festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Zero Days, a new documentary from Alex Gibney (director of HBO’s Going Clear) about American Stuxnet virus reporetedly designed to attack Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Tickets cost around $12 each, the usual price for a high-end movie screening. See the AFI Docs website for a full list of what’s playing this week. Or you can get the official app!
Time for a quick PSA: the annual AFIDOCS documentary film festival kicked off yesterday! AFIDOCS is a terrific, half-week-long, city-spanning event that showcases new documentary features and shorts from around the world. Visit the AFIDOCS website for a list of where and when everything will be playing. Many of these documentaries will screen at the … Continue reading “AFIDOCS is underway!”
Time for a quick PSA: the annual AFIDOCS documentary film festival kicked off yesterday! AFIDOCS is a terrific, half-week-long, city-spanning event that showcases new documentary features and shorts from around the world.
Visit the AFIDOCS website for a list of where and when everything will be playing. Many of these documentaries will screen at the AFI’s flagship theater in Silver Spring, but other theaters throughout the city are participating if you don’t feel like making the trek on the Red Line.
If we have to play favorites with this year’s assemblage, we would pick The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to The Act of Killing) and Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, which examines the history of women in computer programming.
Buy your tickets in advance if you can. These screenings will sell out!
For the uninitiated, every year the American Film Institute hosts AFI Docs, a festival for upcoming documentaries hosted in and around the Washington, DC Metro area. AFI Docs is among the most esteemed documentary film festivals in the world, and ever summer, it is perhaps the biggest film event in the DC area. The AFI … Continue reading “AFI Docs announces its 2014 lineup, and it looks terrific”
For the uninitiated, every year the American Film Institute hosts AFI Docs, a festival for upcoming documentaries hosted in and around the Washington, DC Metro area. AFI Docs is among the most esteemed documentary film festivals in the world, and ever summer, it is perhaps the biggest film event in the DC area.
The AFI recently announced its 2014 lineup, and it looks pretty great. This year’s slate includes 54 full-length documentaries and 28 shorts covering a wide and exciting range of subject matter. You might be interested in Mudbloods, a documentary about collegiate Quidditch players, or Bronx Obama, a biography of a professional Obama impersonator. But there’s more serious fare as well, including a documentary about Hal Holbrook’s legendary Mark Twain stage show and the life of film critic Roger Ebert.
We highly recommend attending, but tickets of AFI Docs will not be available to the general public until June 2nd. Keep an eye on their website for more information as the June 18th start date approaches!
We’ve posted in the past about summer film screenings, but this one takes the cake. Throughout the next few months, AFI Silver, located close to the Silver Spring metro stop, will be showing original prints of great films from the 1980s. These aren’t just DVD copies: you get to see the original things, as they … Continue reading “Excellent! AFI Silver starts righteous 80s film series”
We’ve posted in the past about summer film screenings, but this one takes the cake. Throughout the next few months, AFI Silver, located close to the Silver Spring metro stop, will be showing original prints of great films from the 1980s. These aren’t just DVD copies: you get to see the original things, as they appeared in theaters 30 years ago!
The first movie in the screening, staff favorite Videodrome, shows again tomorrow at 9:45pm. The series continues with films such as Return of the Jedi, Risky Business, and The Last Unicorn. This is a tremendous opportunity to see some great movies in a beautiful, local theater.
AFI Silver has a number of other events running this summer as well, including a Hitchcock retrospective and a Scandinavian crime drama series. Check their website for full details.
AFI Silver Hosts the 8th Annual New African Films FestivalThursday, March 8 – Tuesday, March 13AFI Silver Theatre8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910Get ticketsAFI Silver is proud to host the 8th annual New African Films Festival, co-presented by AFI, TransAfrica and afrikafé. The vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent is … Continue reading “The 2012 New African Film Festival begins Thursday (and runs from March 8 – 13)”
AFI Silver Hosts the 8th Annual New African Films Festival
Thursday, March 8 – Tuesday, March 13
AFI Silver Theatre
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Get tickets
AFI Silver is proud to host the 8th annual New African Films Festival, co-presented by AFI, TransAfrica and afrikafé. The vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent is on display in this year’s acclaimed selections.
To see the entire schedule, visit AFI’s New African Film Festival site.
MAMA AFRICA
Opening night: Thu, Mar 8, 7:00
Opening night tickets $12/$10 AFI Members
Additional screening: Mon, Mar 12, 9:20
The late, great singer Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) was one of the most charismatic African performers of her time. At the height of her popularity in Africa, Makeba boldly took a public anti-apartheid stand that led to the revocation of her passport and the beginning of a lifetime in exile. Director Mika Kaurismäki uncovers stunning archival footage that offers a rare glimpse into Makeba’s personal life, highlighting the admiration and gratitude that she felt for Harry Belafonte, who managed her career in the United States. This documentary reveals private moments which illuminate this legendary artist’s political activism. Official Selection, 2011 AFI Fest presented by Audi. – Courtesy of AFI Fest presented by Audi
DIR/SCR/PROD Mika Kaurismäki; SCR/PROD Don Edkins; PROD Rainer Kölmel. Finland/Germany/South Africa, 2011, color/b&w, 90 min. In English and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Mama Africa trailer
Mama Africa – Miriam Makeba from trigon-film on Vimeo.
To see the entire schedule, visit AFI’s New African Film Festival site.
Excerpted from the AFI Silver site.
AFI-Discovery Silverdocs presents:Growing Up FemaleA film by Jim Klein and Julia ReichertAFI Silver Theater and Cultural CenterSilver Spring, MDAmerican University School of Communications adjunct professor, Julia Reichert invites everyone to a special screening of her first film (made with Jim Klein), Growing Up Female.The film has been restored and is screening this Thursday, September 15, … Continue reading “Film Screening: Professor Julia Reichert’s film – Growing Up Female – Screening at AFI Silver Spring Thursday, Sept 15 at 730 PM”
AFI-Discovery Silverdocs presents:Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women’s movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society. The film looks at female socialization through a personal look into the lives of six women, age 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them–teachers, counselors, advertising, music and the institution of marriage. It offers us a chance to see how much has changed–and how much remains the same. Purchased by more than 400 universities and libraries.
DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Jim Klein. US, 1971, b&w, 50 min. NOT RATED
“We shot it in Spring of 1970 and first showed it in 1971. I am grateful to New York Women in Film and Television for the grant to make the restoration…. I have added a special treat, a short film made in 1969, Up Against The Wall Miss America. It was made by the women of New York Newsreel. Both of us filmmakers will be there to celebrate and to talk with the audience about the film, and about that era.” –Julia Reichert
Here are some Julia Reichert films currently available to watch in Media Services:
Emma & Elvis – VHS 1799
Last Truck – DVD 7467
A Lion in the House – DVD 2284
Seeing Red – VHS 820
Union Maids – VHS 4421
The AFI Discovery Channel SilverDocs Film Festival kicked off today. It runs from June 20 – June 26. There are many ways to keep up with the film festival. They have the SilverDocs web site, which also contains the “festival genius”, a guide to all the films that includes brief summaries, Youtube trailers, and show … Continue reading “AFI SilverDocs Film Festival 2011 Kicks Off Today in Silver Spring, MD”
The AFI Discovery Channel SilverDocs Film Festival kicked off today. It runs from June 20 – June 26. There are many ways to keep up with the film festival. They have the SilverDocs web site, which also contains the “festival genius”, a guide to all the films that includes brief summaries, Youtube trailers, and show dates and times.
You can follow the SilverDocs on Twitter @silverdocs or find them on Facebook, where they have a SILVERDOCS Facebook fan page.
These guys are really covering all the bases because they’ve even got a SilverDocs tumblr, which is a blog that is currently highlighting titles in the film festival with eye-catching stills and links back to the film descriptions and show dates and times on their official site.
Finally, they have a Silver Docs Youtube Channel with video of the kick-off party and trailers for some of the films being shown this week.
Here’s the AFI SilverDocs 2011 Sizzle Reel:
