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American travel writer and documentary maker, Karin Muller, has authored three travel books including Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman’s Solo Journey in an Elusive Land, where she spent seven months traveling alone through Vietnam by motorbike and on foot.
Her latest 2006 documentary film, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, she chronicles a yearlong quest […]
If you’re a fan of American painter Edward Hopper, as I am, the title says it all.
Nighthawks, the icon of American art is normally on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I first saw it as a kid. It’s now on display at the National Gallery of Art as part of […]
It seems Washington DC has become an International film festival center.
There’s the big DC International Film Festival, the DC Independent Film Festival, the African-American FF, the Asian Pacific FF, DC Shorts FF, the Environmental Film Festival, and the list goes on.
This festival schedule features local indie, student, several movies that have never been screened in DC, a coupe […]
Matinees at the Memorial: The U.S. Navy in Film is the new free, public film program at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center.
Their schedule includes a few classics and mostly contemporary films, but all Navy related – fighting sailors, Navy pilots going Mach 2, POWS, sailors on leave, women joining up, ships, planes, submarines and even a talking […]
In 1966, the movie The Endless Summer chronicled two young California surfers who traveled around the world in search of the “perfect wave”. Using a casual and non-typical documentary filming style, the movie became a cult hit and has been enjoyed by several generations of surfers, all dreaming about quitting their jobs and surfing year-round.
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Okay, perhaps there hasn’t been anywhere near the number of films shot in Washington, DC as there has in LA or New York, but there have been some great films (or at least some memorable scenes) shot in DC. Some of the best I can think of include:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Naive Jimmy Stewart […]
Explore the works of emerging DC area artists at the Capital Fringe Festival starting Thursday.
The festival invites art lovers and people not traditionally interested in art to discover “new, risk-taking art”. So what’s this “new risk-taking art”? Think performance art, poetry, plays, dance, music, video, visual arts, comedy, stories and more. The list of events is […]
If you’re a fan of Clint Eastwood or spaghetti westerns, check out the outdoor film series, Crystal Screen Hang’em High Clint Eastwood Summer Film Festival every Monday evening in Arlington.
Bring a blanket and picnic, and enjoy a big screen production.
July 16 - High Plains Drifter
July 23 - Joe Kidd
July 30 - A Fistfull of Dollars
August […]
In a last-minute addition, former VP turned rock promoter and global warming guru, Al Gore announced that one of the eight nine Live Earth concerts will be held in DC this Saturday at the National Museum of the American Indian.
The museum had a “Mother Earth” concert on the books for this Saturday, and is simply […]
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