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Cantonese Cold War Directed by Leung Longman and Sunny Lok (Hong Kong, 2012, 102 min.)
The kidnapping of five officers right under the nose of the police department’s surveillance system sets off a search for a mole and a power struggle between the co-directors of Police Affairs. Freer Gallery of Art Fri., June 28, 7 p.m., Sun., June 30, 2 p.m.
Motorway (Che sau) Directed by Soi Cheang (Hong Kong, 2012, 90 min.)
Shawn Yue plays a hotshot rookie cop who’s a member of the Stealth Riders, a secret police unit in charge of hunting down illegal auto racers and fugitives on the run. Freer Gallery of Art Fri., June 21, 7 p.m., Sun., June 23, 2 p.m.
Vulgaria Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung (Hong Kong, 2012, 92 min.)
Funnyman Chapman To is a movie producer desperate to score a hit who secures backing from a crazed mainland gangster in this spectacularly raunchy send-up of the Hong Kong film industry. Freer Gallery of Art Fri., June 14, 7 p.m., Sun., June 16, 2 p.m.
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and a duplicitous one with her current boss (English, French and Cantonese).
Akwantu: The Journey
AFI Silver Theatre Fri., June 28, 9:15 p.m., Sun., June 30, 9:20 p.m.
Directed by Roy T. Anderson (U.S./Jamaica, 2012, 96 min.)
Jamaican-born director Roy T. Anderson examines his heroic ancestors, the Maroons, who were often referred to as the Spartacus of their time. Poorly armed and outgunned, these brave warriors engaged the mighty British superpower over an 80-year period and were victorious. AFI Silver Theatre Sat., June 1, 3 p.m.
Before Midnight Directed by Richard Linklater (U.S., 2013, 108 min.)
Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) first met in their 20s in “Before Sunrise,” reunited in their 30s in “Before Sunset,” and now, in “Before Midnight,” they face the past, present and future. Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Between Friends Directed by Omari Jackson (Trinidad and Tobago, 2012, 95 min.)
Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, this film is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a group of young friends during a sexually charged summer of exploration, revelation and change. AFI Silver Theatre Sat., June 1, 7:20 p.m.
Boarding Gate Directed by Olivier Assayas (France/Luxembourg, 2007, 106 min.)
A woman whose resume includes prostitution, industrial espionage, drug-dealing, Web entrepreneurship and, in time, assassination, has an obsessive and violent sexual relationship with her former employer
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Clean Directed by Olivier Assayas (France/Canada/U.K., 2004, 90 min.)
After her British rock-star boyfriend dies from a heroin overdose, fellow junkie Emily Wang faces a stint in prison, public condemnation, the loss of custody of the couple’s 6-year-old son, and the arduous journey of putting her life back together (English, French and Cantonese).
June 2013
God Loves Uganda
Our Nixon
Directed by Roger Ross Williams (U.S., 2013)
Directed by Penny Lane (U.S., 2013, 84 min.)
This powerful documentary explores the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right.
Never-before-seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon’s closest aides — and convicted Watergate conspirators — offer a surprising and intimate new look into his presidency.
AFI Silver Docs Theater and time TBD
Holding on to Jah Directed by Roger Landon Hall (U.S./Jamaica, 2011, 98 min.)
Candid interviews with some of reggae’s greatest singers and musicians tell a collective story of hard times that were endured and overcome thanks to their great faith.
AFI Silver Docs Theater and time TBD
Pandora’s Promise Directed by Robert Stone (U.S., 2013, 87 min.)
AFI Silver Theatre Sat., June 1, 9:30 p.m.
This documentary asks whether the one technology we fear most — nuclear power — could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty.
Directed by Olivier Assayas (France, 2002, 116 min.)
Inequality for All
Landmark’s E Street Cinema Opens Fri., June 14
Jet-setting business executives pursue a lucrative deal with a Japanese company that specializes in pornography Web sites, whose 3D imaging software is light-years ahead of the competition (English, French and Japanese).
Directed by Jacob Kornbluth (U.S., 2013)
Shadow Dancer
In this documentary, U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.
AFI Silver Theatre Sat., June 29, 5:10 p.m., Mon., July 1, 7:10 p.m.
Demonlover
AFI Silver Theatre June 15 to 18
Dirty Wars Directed by Rick Rowley (Multiple countries, 2013, 86 min.)
AFI Silver Docs Theater and time TBD
Let the Fire Burn Directed by Jason Osder (U.S., 2013, 88 min.)
Part political thriller and part detective story, this documentary follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestseller “Blackwater,” on a gripping journey into the heart of America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond (English, Pushto, Somali and Dari).
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped two pounds of military explosives onto a city row house occupied by the radical group MOVE, resulting in one of the largest fires in the city’s history. This dramatic tragedy of intolerance and fear unfolds through an extraordinary visual record previously withheld from the public.
Landmark’s E Street Cinema Opens Fri., June 7
AFI Silver Docs Theater and time TBD
Directed by James Marsh (U.K./Ireland, 2012, 101 min.)
A single mother and Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hard-line IRA brothers is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, and an MI5 officer offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. Landmark’s E Street Cinema Opens Fri., June 7
Sightseers Directed by Ben Wheatley (U.K., 2012, 89 min.)
In this hilarious dark comedy, Chris wants to show Tina his world, and he wants to do it his way — on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan, but it doesn’t take long for reality
by Washington Diplomat film reviewer Ky N. Nguyen
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Other continuing series (through July 2) include “Visionario: The Films of Guillermo del Toro,” “Howard Hawks, Part 2” and “AFI Life Achievement Award Retrospective: Mel Brooks.”
American Dream” (Sat., June 29; 2:30 p.m.), screened in association with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” with gratitude to the Embassy of Hungary.
American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre
(301) 495-6700, www.afi.com/silver
“Gebo and the Shadow” (Sat., June 29; 4:30 p.m.; Sun., June 30; 4:30 p.m.), the latest from 104-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, stars international legends Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale and Michael Lonsdale (as Gebo) against more youthful Portuguese players Ricardo Trêpe and Leonor Silveir.
Now in its 13th year, the 2013 DC Caribbean Filmfest (May 31-June 2) — copresented by the Caribbean Association of World Bank and IMF Staff (CAWI), the Caribbean Professional Network (CPN), Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) and TransAfrica — presents films from the region in honor of Caribbean Heritage Month in June. Screenings include: Shundell Prasad’s “Festival of Lights”; filmmaker Roy T. Anderson and co-producer Alison G. Anderson in person with “Akwantu: The Journey”; Jonas D’Adesky’s “Three Kids”; Omari Jackson’s “Between Friends”; Roger Landon Hall’s “Holding On to Jah”; filmmaker Melissa A. Gomez in person with “Silent Music”; Philippe Niang’s “Toussaint Louverture”; and Roberto Busó-García’s “The Condemned.” Presented with special thanks to the Embassy of France in D.C. and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York, “The Films of Olivier Assayas” retrospective (through July 1) honors the French auteur. Screenings include: “Les Destinées”; “Summer Hours”; “Demonlover”; “Boarding Gate”; and “Clean.” The “Ten Years of Film Movement” series (through July 2) celebrates the indie distributor with Klaus Härö’s “Mother Of Mine”; Alexei Popogrebsky’s “How I Ended This Summer”; Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “A Screaming Man”; Shane Meadows’s “Somers Town”; Lucía Puenzo’s “XXY”; Marius Holst’s “King of Devil’s Island”; and Andrea Segre’s “Shun Li and the Poet.”
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National Gallery of Art The retrospective “Jean Rouch in Africa” (May 26-June 15) offers key selections from the work of the noted French ethnographer, concluding on June 15 with screenings of “Les Maîtres fous” followed by “Jaguar” (2 p.m.) and “Petit à petit (Little by Little)” (4:30 p.m.). “Journal de France” (Sun., June 16, 4:30 p.m.), the latest from Rouch’s occasional collaborator Raymond Depardon (a Pulitzer Prizewinning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker), serves as a blend of autobiography, history of documentary filmmaking, road movie, and picture of France. The series “For Art’s Sake: Britain’s Seventh Art Productions” reviews classic films about art by the venerable Brighton-based production company, including: “In Search of Haydn” followed by a preview of the work-in-progress “In Search of Chopin” (Sunday, June 9, 4:30 p.m.); “In Search of Beethoven” (Sun., June 23, 2 p.m.); a sneak peek of “Exhibition Manet” followed by “Making War Horse” (Sun., June 23, 4:30 p.m.); and “Leonardo Live” (Sat., June 29; 12:45 p.m.). John Columbus, Black Maria’s founding director, presents his festival’s program of experimental and documentary shorts in “Black Maria: Selections from the Festival” (Sat., June 8, 3:30 p.m.). Media artist Péter Forgács discusses his film “Hunky Blues –The
(202) 842-6799, www.nga.gov/programs/film
Freer Gallery of Art The ever-popular 18th annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival (June 7-Aug. 4), cosponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, spotlights Law Chi-leung’s “The Bullet Vanishes”; Pang Ho-Cheung’s “Vulgaria”; Soi Cheang’s “Motorway”; and Leung Longman and Sunny Lok’s “Cold War” (Fri., June 28, 7 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 2 p.m.). ((202) 357-2700, www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp
Goethe-Institut Presented in partnership with the Alliance Française, the series “50 Years French-German Friendship” (through July 12) celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty with screenings of Volker Schlöndorff’s “Swann in Love” (Mon., June 3, 6:30 p.m.) and Louis Malle’s “Au Revoir Les Enfants” (Mon., June 24, 6:30 p.m.). (202) 289-1200, www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/kue/flm/enindex.htm
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June 2013