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DCIFF's Films Big on Fixing, Healing, & Coming of Agenew
Now in its 10th year, the D.C. Independent Film Festival is bookended by nostalgia trips: It kicks off on March 6 with a feature riffing on John Ford's The Searchers and ends on March 16 with The Clash Live: Revolution Rock, which captures the punk act from 1978 to 1982. But in between, DCIFF is still all over the place.
Washington City Paper |
Matthew Borlik and Mark Athitakis |
03-06-2008 |
Movies
'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' & 'Let's Get Lost': Bursting to Fixnew
Frances McDormand's heroine lands into high society; Chet Baker falls from grace.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Sword Swallowers Show Their Scarsnew
To kick off the first international Sword Swallower's Awareness Day, Tyler Fyre plunges a 27-and-a-half-inch steel blade down his throat, rests it at the bottom of his stomach, wrenches it out, and delivers a punch line: "Well, that's all there is to sword swallowing, folks! Looks like we've wrapped up remarkably early here!"
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
03-06-2008 |
Performance
'Semi-Pro': Air Ballnew
When you see Will Ferrell trying to fight a not-so-gentle Ben in his latest sports comedy, you can't help but think the glory days of the former Saturday Night Live star's dumb-guy shtick are over.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kent Alterman, Semi-Pro
'The Band's Visit' & 'City of Men': Group Dreamsnew
Sticking together is easier said than done in these two films.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Apes' New Singer Fits Right Innew
The group's best work has always teetered between avant-garde skronk and pop euphoria. On Ghost Games, the line is completely obliterated.
Washington City Paper |
Casey Rae-Hunter |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Apes, Ghost Games
Drone of Artnew
Earth's new album is an inspired merger of repetition and twang.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
The Feminine Antiquenew
Jae Ellis and Allen Bickoff turn gender norms into profit.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
02-28-2008 |
Culture
The New D.C. Stadium's Winners & Losersnew
Nationals Park, set to open in a month, promised to have a big impact on the neighborhood. It already has.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Cherkis |
02-28-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
New Editor Pushes Evenhandedness at the Washington Timesnew
John Solomon is stripping loaded language -- think "illegal aliens" -- from the Moonie paper.
Washington City Paper |
Erik Wemple |
02-28-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Transit Fare Hike Squeezes Commuters ... But What About the Children?new
With train and bus costs going up, students like Roneka Jenkins can't always afford to get to class.
Washington City Paper |
Ruth Samuelson |
02-21-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Black Revisionist History Monthnew
The untruths behind Remember the Titans endure.
Washington City Paper |
Dave McKenna |
02-21-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Inside the Charcuterie Revivalnew
If you want to learn how sausage gets made, you've pretty much got to teach yourself.
Washington City Paper |
Melissa McCart |
02-21-2008 |
Food+Drink
'The Signal' Sends a Bloody, Dystopian Messagenew
Among many ridiculous scenes, the one in which someone literally jump-starts and interrogates a decapitated head summarily erases any chance you'll take the script's weak stab at social commentary -- i.e., technology is destroying our minds -- seriously.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
'Charlie Bartlett' & 'Honeydripper': Cure of Dutynew
The heroes of two new films go hunting for quick fixes.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
