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1— “Waking Sleeping Beauty,” a documentary by Don Hahn, sets out to give the behind-the-scenes story of Disney in the 1980s, when Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy Disney were part of the studio’s period of highest creative tension and most extraordinary output.
1— “Freakonomics” brings the best-selling book of surprising statistics to life in an omnibus of nonfiction films by Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
2— Figures ina Landscape: Nature and Narrative in Norway explores the riches of Norwegian cinema at the National Gallery through Oct. 30.
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8 — “Secretariat” tells the story of the legendary chestnut thoroughbred that won the Triple
Crown in 1973 and is still considered the greatest horse in history. Diane Lane stars as his owner, Penny Tweedy. Awards handicappers suggest the Oscar might be hers by a nose.
8 — “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” stars Keir Gilchrist as a troubled teenager who begins a new chapter after checking into a psychiatric ward. With Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts and Lauren Graham, from directing team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (“Half Nelson,” “Sugar”).
8 — “Nowhere Boy” features Aaron Johnson (“Kick-Ass”) as John Lennon in this highly anticipated biopic by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood.
8— “Life as We Know It” stars Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as mismatched singles whose only thing in common is their beloved goddaughter. When fate brings them closer to the little girl, they unexpectedly draw closer to each other.
8— Southeast Asian Visions gets underway at the Freer, presenting a series of films from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. Through Nov. 5.
8— “My Soul to Take,” from horror master Wes Craven, has to do with a serial killer who returns to a sleepy town to kill the children who were born the night he died. Sounds reasonable! With Max Thieriot, Nick Lashaway and Zena Grey.
8— “The Cremaster Cycle,” Matthew Barney’s 1996 five-part film cycle bursting with extravagant staging and multifarious references (Busby Berkeley, Gary Gilmore, opera, the Chrysler Building and more), returns to be loved or hated.
8— “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Woody Allen’s 39th movie, stars Naomi Watts as a woman living in London whose father (Anthony Hopkins) is having a midlife crisis and whose own marriage shows signs of strain. With Josh Brolin and Antonio Banderas.
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Can there be anything more potentially obnoxious and inert than a movie about an Internet start-up? Maybe, but “The Social Network,” about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, offers reason for optimism. For one thing, it’s written by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing,” “Charlie Wilson’s War”), who has a proven track record in making even stultifying policy talk crackle with excitement. The film boasts a terrific cast: Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, with Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and the new “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Rooney Mara. And they’re being directed by David Fincher (“Se7en,” “Zodiac”), one of the most dynamic and assured filmmakers working today. I feel like friending this movie already.
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14 — Halloween on Screen starts at AFI, with a lineup of movies that will make you want to jump, through Oct. 30.
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15 — “Stone” teams Robert De Niro and Edward Norton for the first time since their outing in 2001’s “The
Score,” in a crime thriller about a prisoner who approaches a parole officer with an offer he may not be able to refuse.
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15 — “Red” stars Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich in Robert
Schwentke’s antic action comedy about a group of retired CIA agents who get together for one last gig. Based on Warren Ellis’s graphic novel.
15 — “White Wedding” tells the story of a South African bridegroom whose trip to the altar undergoes some changes after he travels from Johannesburg to pick up his best friend in Durban and they embark for Cape Town.
15 — 2010 DC Labor FilmFest begins, presenting its yearly offerings of movies about work. On offer this year: the Valerie Plame CIA thriller “Fair Game,” “Louise-Michel,” “Gigante,” and repertory screenings of such classics as “The Informant!” and “Office Space.” At AFI through Oct. 20.
16 — Noir City DC: The 2010 Film Noir Festival gets underway with the timely “Border Incident,” a 1949 movie about the exploitation of illegal farm workers from Mexico, and continues with a tribute to Andrew L. Stone and films by Anthony Mann, Jacques Tourneur and André do Toth. At AFI through Nov. 3.
16 — Julien Duvivier: The Grand Artisan explores the work of a little-known French filmmaker (“Pepe Le Moko” was his most famous film) whose poetic-realist style made him the bete noir of the trendy New Wave. At the National Gallery through Dec. 26.
21 —Spooky Movie 2010: The 5th annual Washington, D.C. International Horror Film Festival gets underway at AFI and Cinema Arts Theatre in Fairfax. Opening night film: recent South by Southwest hit “Tucker &Dale vs. Evil.” Through Oct. 25.
21 — Arabian Sights Film Festival presents a selection of new films from the Arab world through Oct. 30.
22 — “Conviction” tells the true story of a woman who puts herself through high school, college and law school in order to help a brother who’s been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. With Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell.
22 — “Paranormal Activity 2” tries to re-bottle the lightning of last year’s sneaker horror hit.
22 — “The Company Men” stars Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Kevin Costner in this comic drama about men who must adjust to new lives after they’re downsized out of their corporate jobs. From “E.R.” creator John Wells.
about the recent financial meltdown and its roots in an incestuous world of investors, journalists, academics and politicians.
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22 — “Tamara Drewe” stars Gemma Arterton in Stephen Frears’s adaptation of a graphic novel about a once-homely English girl who returns to her home village and wreaks seductive havoc.
29 — “Saw VII 3D” arrives because that’s just what we’ve been needing:
22 — “Hereafter,” from Clint Eastwood, tells the story of three people with special connections to the afterlife. Matt Damon, Cecile de France and Bryce Dallas Howard star in the film, from screenwriter Peter Morgan (“The Queen”).
22 — “Inside Job” is a documentary by Charles Ferguson (“No End in Sight”)
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29 — “Monsters,” promoted as this year’s “District 9,” presents a horrific sci-fi scenario in which alien life forms collected by NASA begin to threaten America.
29 — “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” brings to a close the Swedish films based on Stieg Larsson’s thrillers, which have featured Noomi Rapace in the role of cyber-punk heroine Lisbeth Salandar. Noomi, meet Rooney: Newcomer Rooney Mara is slated to take on the role in David Fincher’s American version.
29 — “Salome,” the 1923 silent film starring the seductive Nazimova in the racy title role, plays at AFI with a live musical performance of its original score.
31 — “Haxan — Witchcraft Through the Ages,” a 1922 documentary (and that era’s closest thing to a multimedia creation), unspools at the National Gallery with a live performance of the film’s original score.
NOVEMBER
TBD — “Faster” stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen in a crime thriller about a recently released convict out to avenge the murder of his brother during a robbery he was unjustly imprisoned for.
1— Made in West/East Germany presents a series of films grappling with history, World War II, Cold War politics and national identity. At the Goethe-Institut, through Jan. 10.
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4— AFI-European Union Film Showcase brings its annual smorgasbord of films from across the pond to our shores, with movies from Austria to Slovenia, and lots in between. At AFI through Nov. 23.
5— “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” stars Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kimberly Elise and Loretta Devine in Tyler Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning play about African American womanhood.
5— “Megamind” features the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt in this animated comedy about a hapless super-villain who, when his longtime super-heroic foil dies, must create another archenemy.
5— “Due Date” stars Robert Downey Jr. as a first-time father with five days to attend his child’s birth and who, when his flight home is canceled, must hitch a ride with an aspiring actor played by Zach Galifianakis. From Todd Philipps of “The Hangover.”
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5 — “Client 9” is Alex Gibney’s hotly anticipated portrait of former New York attorney general
Eliot Spitzer, whose downfall after a sex scandal represented one of the most dramatic flameouts in recent political memory.
5— “My Dog Tulip,” an animated tale based on J.R. Ackerley’s novel, features the voice of Christopher Plummer as a man who adopts a German shepherd only to have his life
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11 — “Fair Game” stars Sean Penn and Naomi Watts as Joe and Valerie Plame Wilson in Doug
Liman’s dramatization of the run-up to the Iraq war and the leak of Plame Wilson’s identity as a CIA operative.
12 — “Unstoppable” stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson in Tony Scott’s thriller set aboard a runaway train.
12 — “Morning Glory” features Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams in a comedy about an up-and-coming TV producer whose life turns around when she begins working with two temperamental morning show hosts.
12 — “Skyline” finds a group of friends, after a late-night party, being inexplicably drawn to a mysterious light that makes people vanish into thin air. (Or it could be just a really bad hangover.)
12 — “127 Hours” tells the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who, after an accident in a Utah canyon, saved his life by taking extreme measures involving a handy pocketknife. From director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”).
5— “Vision,” by legendary German director Margarethe von Trotta, stars her frequent collaborator and muse, Barbara Sukowa, as Christian mystic and Benedictine nun Hildegard von Bingen, who challenged the church on its stance toward women in 12th-century Germany.
19 — “Tibet in Song” tells the story of the Tibetan people and their struggle for autonomy through their indigenous music.
19 — “The Next Three Days” stars Russell Crowe as a man whose wife is imprisoned for a gruesome murder and whose only means of keeping his family together is to break her out of prison. From writer-director Paul Haggis (“Crash”), co-starring Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson.
19 — “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1” marks the first section of the last installment of the many-chaptered story of the titular wizard, whom a generation has watched growing up among witches and warlocks in Britain. Goodbyes are tough, so Warner Bros. has kindly drawn out the process through next summer.
20 — Harun Farocki, the German experimental filmmaker, presents his two latest films at the National Gallery.
24 — “Love and Other Drugs” features Anne Hathaway as a free spirit whose footloose attitude toward life is challenged when she meets a charming pharmaceutical executive played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
24 — “Burlesque” finds Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci and Eric Dane taking the stage in musical about a kid from the sticks who seeks her fortune in Los Angeles and winds up working as a cocktail waitress at a burlesque club. Va-va-voom!
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