Wonkette
- Friday, Feb. 6: The Freer Gallery is screening Loose Rope tonight, a Persian film about two men who must deliver a cow to the northern part of Tehran in 24 hours, or else their jobs are at stake. Sounds like a typical American movie, except you’d have to replace “cow” with “cocaine” and “Tehran” with “Inglewood.” 7PM. [Smithsonian]
- Friday, Feb. 6: Journey through Dante’s nine levels of hell at Paata Tsikurishvili’s modern retelling of Dante’s Divine Comedy at the Rossyln Spectrum Theatre. Showtimes vary. [Rossyln Spectrum]
- Saturday, Feb. 7: Home-movie footage circa 1920s + creepy piano music = Shadow Train, Jose Luis Guerin’s mockumentary about the search for an amateur French filmmaker. 4PM at the National Gallery of Art. [National Gallery of Art]
- Sunday, Feb. 8: The website for the Our City Film Festival says “DC is more than just politicos, monuments and traffic” and is “out to proove it!” Nine short films about the forgotten part of DC will be viewed at 11AM at Busboys and Poets. [Busboys and Poets]
- Wednesday, Feb. 11: Everybody loves NPR’s This American Life, so here’s your chance to meet the radio personality behind it all, Ira Glass. He’ll be at the L St. Borders at 6:30 PM to promote the radio program’s infamous Showtime version on DVD. [Borders]
Is that Future Man on the left?
My favorite This American Life was the one about the dick measuring contest.
I could have sworn that was a still from “Butch Ahmadinejad And The Dance Of The Seven Veils Kid”.
A PERSIAN movie review?
By an intern named Malaka GHARIB!?!
Get me Homeland Security! STAT!
(Oh, and if that cow was a sheep, would the heroes be guilty of violating the Iranian equivalent of the Mann Act?
And after the sheep was converted in lamb marsala, would the guys be widowers?)
norbizness: You look like a little banana!
And we outlanders thought all culture in DC revolved around gossip and backstabbing.
So, which of those guys is Jerry Reed?