We often share free advance movie passes, and we’re excited to something a little differently with them this time. We have passes for you to see 99 Homes, an Andrew Garfield-led drama about eviction and homeless – and proceeds from the event are going to a local charity. To promote 99 Homes, filmmaker Broad Green […]
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See which rejected films survive an audience gauntlet tonight at Cheers and Sneers
The annual DC Shorts festival showcases some of the best short films from local talent, but not all submissions make the cut. And every so often, presumably and hopefully with their creators’ blessings, DC Shorts celebrates these rejections at Cheers and Sneers, an audience-driven showcase of the DC film scene’s near misses, secret triumphs, and […]
Continue readingSpy a few movies in Crystal City on Mondays
Summer is the season for free outdoor film screenings, and with seemingly every neighborhood and area in DC now hosting its own business improvement district, there’s no shortage of places to see a movie outside on a big screen. We felt like pointing out one of the bigger festivals happening in the city, Crystal City’s […]
Continue readingAFIDOCS 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 […]
Continue readingToo nice to stay indoors? Come to the Media pop-up library!
We’re about halfway into April, and we know that it’s gorgeous outside. (Well, except today, since it’s raining.) Even with finals season approaching and forcing everyone into their study bunkers, we’d all rather be outside. We see you, Frisbee players! We envy you! We want to go where our patrons are, so for one day […]
Continue readingSee sci-fi drama Ex Machina with director Alex Garland
Science fiction screenwriter Alex Garland makes directorial debut in theaters today with Ex Machina, a futuristic drama starring future Star Wars co-stars Domnhall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac about artificial intelligence. The movie has mostly glowing reviews so far, which bodes well for Garland’s transition from the writing desk to the director’s chair. If you want […]
Continue readingSOC’s International Cinema Series concludes Friday with British film
Back in the fall, SOC teamed up with the National Gallery of Art to kick off the International Cinema Series, a year-long roster of world cinema screenings and discussions. Over the course of the academic year, the series has covered Italy, China, Greece, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. This Friday, the International Cinema Series wraps […]
Continue readingSee the next documentary from the director of Miss Representation TOMORROW!
Miss Representation was one of the most impactful and successful documentaries from 2011, and its examination of the portrayal of women in media is extremely relevant to larger cultural conversations that have started in the last few years. Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s newest film is The Mask You Live In, looks at another component of […]
Continue readingHappy Fair Use Week!
By the declaration of the Association of Research Libraries, this week is Fair Use Week! “Fair use” is one of the most important exemptions in copyright law that allows educators, artists, and journalists to create new works from copyrighted content. Fair use provisions have allowed everything from students editing films for academic assignments to supercuts […]
Continue readingDid you miss Whiplash? Have a bladder of steel? See every Best Picture nominee in a row on Saturday
via icanhasgif.com You hear the same refrain every year about Oscar nominations: if only those movies had been in theaters for longer. You might not have gone to see The Imitation Game on its own accord, but now that it’s in contention for some major awards, it would be nice to see it in the […]
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