Washington City Paper: Contents for Apr. 28

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City Paper's Guide to the Ninth Annual Filmfest DC

Cover Story

After nine years, Filmfest DC's lack of definition has become its definition. Although the festival still seems a somewhat awkward cluster of impulses and events, it's been doing the same thing long enough to be recognizable: There's an assortment of films from around the world—some about to open commercially, some never to be seen again—buttressed by a few music documentaries, some kids' flicks, a showcase of contenders for the Rosebud Award for best local film, and other special events. As always, there are highlights and disappointments, although Washington City Paper's writers—having seen fewer than half of the approximately 50 features—can only identify some of each.

The festival actually began on Wednesday with Funny Bones, a film that opens this week. (Other Filmfest entries scheduled to open commercially include Picture Bride and Double Happiness.) For the first time, it includes movies chosen by some of the other local fests, including Women in Film and Video, Reel Affirmations, the Jewish Film Festival, the Americas Film Festival, and the Asian-American Artist Media Festival, and will reprise a few films already shown here by one of these. Also to be reprised is “The Decalogue,” Krzysztof Kieslowski's 10-hour treatment of the Ten Commandments, shown by Filmfest in 1990 and still without commercial distribution in the U.S.... Continued

Issue of Apr. 28 - May. 4, 1995

News and Features

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City Paper's Guide to the Ninth Annual Filmfest DC
Cover Story By Joel E. Siegel.Hanna RosinNathalie op de BeeckDave NuttycombeFrank KuznikReuben JacksonEddie DeanPat Aufderheide, Mark Jenkins and Lisa Montanaro
Hop on the 32 Bus, Gus
Forget the Old Town Trolley: D.C.'s Best Bus Tour Starts in Far Southeast and Only Costs a Dollar
The City By David Plotz
Diamond Mine
D.C.'s Financial Promised Land Lies Just Across the River
The City By Alan Green
Dungeons and Drag Queens
At the Fetish Fest, Pain Aficionados Check Out the Latest in Kink
The City By Claudia J. Rosenbaum
Heavenly Hostess
Cheryl Welsh-Charrier Introduces Clients to Their Guardian Angels
The City By Page Evans Schwartz
A Word to the Weird
The Mail By Trudy Suggs
Highs and Lows
The Mail By Rebecca Kaufman
News of the Not-So-Weird
The Mail By Ricky Taylor
News of the Not-So-Weird, Part 2
The Mail By Aaron Cucci
You Don't Know From Weird
The Mail By Oliver Arnd Markwirth
Ward 1 Is Like a Box of Chocolates...
The Mail By Frank Smith Jr.
A No Vote
The Mail By Kenneth Carroll
Varnum, One Toke Over the Line
The Mail By Alison Green
Small-Town Boy
The Mail By Jr. and John A. Haines
Race Riot
The Mail By F.U. Ming
Eight's Had Enough
The Mail By Tiffany Akilah Williams