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AT THE AFI SILVERDOCS FILM FESTIVAL Each year, the AFI Silverdocs
film festival welcomes the best international filmmakers to showcase their documentaries in downtown Silver Spring. Most films cost $10 and screen at AFI, 8633 Colesville Rd. 301-495-6720.
www.silverdocs.com. Here’s a list of the films screening this week. At AFI Silver Theatre: “Freakonomics,” Monday at
7:30 p.m. “Family Affair,” Tuesday at
11:30 a.m. A Kid’s Life” shorts program,
Tuesday at noon. “La Isla — Archives of a
Tragedy,” Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday at 1:45 p.m. “Secrets of the Tribe,” Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. “A Film Unfinished,” Tuesday at
2:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York,”
Tuesday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 2 p.m. “War Don Don,” Tuesday at
4:15 p.m. “Space Tourists,” Tuesday at 5
and Thursday at 1:30 p.m. “Holywars,” Tuesday at 6:30
p.m.
“The Kids Grow Up,” Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
“Presumed Guilty,” Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. “As Lilith” (“Kmo Lilith”),
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Tuesday at 9:15 p.m. and Thursday at 11:30 a.m. “Beyond This Place,” Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday at 4 p.m.
“Sons of Perdition,” Tuesday at
10 p.m. “The Other City,” Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. “Creature Comforts” shorts program, Wednesday at noon. “The Invention of Dr.
Nakamats,” Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.
“Goodbye, How Are You?”
Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. “The Woman With the Five Elephants,” Wednesday at 4 p.m. “South of the Border,”
Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. “Into Eternity,” Wednesday at
5 p.m. 6:45 p.m.
“Steam of Life,” Wednesday at “My So-Called Enemy,”
Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. “Waiting for ‘Superman’,”
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. “The Devilles,” Wednesday at
9 p.m. “Still Here” shorts program,
Wednesday at 10 p.m. and Thursday at noon. “Ride, Rise, Roar,” Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. “Freedom Riders,” Thursday at 10:45 a.m.
“Barbershop Punk,” Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
“Camera, Camera,” Thursday SILVERDOCS
“Beyond This Place,” the story of a son trying to reconnect with his father while on a bike trip, screens Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Silverdocs film festival.
at 5 p.m. “My Perestroika,” Thursday at
6:30 p.m. p.m.
“Budrus,” Thursday at 7:15 “Guggenheim Symposium,”
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. “Making the Boys,” Thursday
at 9 p.m. “The Disappearance of
McKinley Nolan,” Thursday at 9:30 p.m. “Waste Land,” Thursday at 10
p.m. At Silver Plaza: “Microcosmos,” Tuesday at
9:30 p.m. Free. Screens outdoors on Ellsworth Drive between Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street, Silver Spring. 301-565-7300. At the Discovery HD Theater: Discovery Communications
Headquarters, One Discovery Pl., Silver Spring. “Grace, Milly, Lucy. . . Child Soldiers,” Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. “Wo An Ni Mommy” (“I Love You, Mommy”), Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
“We Don’t Care About Music
Anyway...” Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. “A Kid’s Life” shorts program, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. “His & Hers,” Wednesday at 6
p.m. at 8 p.m.
“The Red Chapel,” Wednesday “My So-Called Enemy,”
Thursday at 12:30 p.m. “Creature Comforts” shorts program, Thursday at 3 p.m. “The Woodmans,” Thursday at
5:15 p.m. “Family Affair,” Thursday at
7:45 p.m.
that Ondine is a silkie, a mythological creature that is part seal and can some- times shed its skin and live among hu- mans. When a stranger (Emil Hostina) shows up, Annie believes it is Ondine’s sil- kie husband. Syracuse doesn’t know what to think. But he does know that he’s fall- ing in love with Ondine and doesn’t want her to leave. (PG-13, 102 minutes) Contains some obscenity, scenes of violence and a car crash, sensuality and drug content. At Landmark’s Bethesda Row and Cinema Arts Theatre.
BBB1 ⁄2 PLEASE GIVE
Writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s singu- lar brand of observant wit and aching ten- derness pours forth in this film, a wry, wistful portrait of contemporary urban manners. Catherine Keener plays Kate, who owns an upscale vintage home fur- nishings store. Kate spends her days scavenging the homes of the deceased, looking for mid-century pieces to sell in her shop. Kate and her husband plan to expand their home to the apartment next door once its tenant passes away. The tenant, an unpleasant elderly lady named Andra (Ann Guilbert), is tended by her de- voted granddaughter and, once in a while, her sister. The interactions of these fami- lies, filled with envy, resentment, guilt and impending death, highlight Holofcen- er’s sharp humor and disarming pathos. “Please Give” can be enjoyed simply for its portraits of human foibles and fum- bling grasps at intimacy — but is also de- ceivingly profound. (R, 90 minutes) Con- tains sexual content, nudity and profanity. Area theaters.
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In this adventure based on the popular video game, the focus of Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a special dagger he has stumbled upon. When a jewel is pressed on its hilt, releasing the few thimblefuls of sand inside, it has the abili- ty to rewind time, but only for one min- ute. Not just any sand will work, either. Hidden underground is a giant glass ves- sel filled with the right kind. Only the dag- ger can break the glass. Once broken, the sand gives its user unlimited ability to travel back in time. The problem is that Dastan’s not the only one who knows about it. Someone else wants it and has set Dastan up for the murder of his adop- tive father, King Sharaman (Ronald Pick- up). Whoever killed Sharaman wants Das- tan out of the way so that he can find the source of the charmed sand himself. With the assistance of the dagger’s official custodian, Princess Tamina (Gemma Ar- terton), Dastan must stop that from hap- pening. (PG-13, 103 minutes) Contains sword and arrow violence and some risque dialogue. Area theaters.
BBROBIN HOOD
Dark and polemic, Ridley Scott’s film is less about a band of merry men than a whole country of angry ones. Set in an England bankrupted by war, Robin Long- stride (Russell Crowe) is a bowman under King Richard the Lionheart. When Richard is killed, Robin carries his crown back to England and into the hands the treacher- ous Prince John (Oscar Isaac). But Robin must also return the sword of slain noble- man Sir Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge) to his family. To avoid accusations of theft, Robin temporarily assumes Loxley’s iden- tity. However, he is asked to stay by Rob- ert’s father and to continue the imperson- ation and live as husband to Robert’s wid- ow, Marion (Cate Blanchett). The bad guy is Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong), King John’s chief tax enforcer and a spy for the French, who hope to take advantage of the civil unrest he’s sowing. The film shows little of the Robin Hood we know, suggesting you may have to wait for “Robin Hood II” for that story. (PG-13, 140 minutes) Contains plentiful violence, sensu- ality and some sexual humor. Area theaters. — M.O.
BBBTHE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
This absorbing story of the unlikely inter- section of an unrequited love affair and an unresolved crime opens in the present day. Former prosecution investigator Ben- jamin Esposito (Ricardo Darín), now re- tired, begins work on a novel about a case that has been haunting him since 1974, when a young woman was brutally raped and killed and the legal system failed to bring her killer to justice. When Benjamin
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