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Best bets for movies this week
Ann Hornaday and Jen Chaney | Washington Post Staff Writers | Updated 11/21/2009
The most promising films, coming to a screen near you.
The Crowd
Washington, DC | 11/28
Few filmgoing experiences are as sublime as watching a magnificent silent movie to live music. It's an added bonus when the movie in question is a masterpiece made in another age but utterly of our own time. Don't miss King Vidor's influential 1928 film about a young couple trying to make their way in a crushing, impersonal metropolis. It's accompanied by organist Dennis James.
The Road
Annapolis, MD | 11/25 - 11/26
You might expect an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's bleak, post-apocalyptic novel to be, well, bleak. And you'd be right. But it also boasts extraordinarily moving performances from Viggo Mortensen and young Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and son clinging to the only thing a cruel, dystopian world has left them: each other.
Some Like It Hot
Silver Spring, MD | 11/25 - 11/26
Guys in drag can sometimes be funny. But Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis? Well, that's classic. See for yourself as this 1959 Billy Wilder favorite celebrates its 50th anniversary with screenings of a new 35mm print.
The Room
Washington, DC | 11/27 - 12/4
It has been called the "Citizen Kane" of bad movies. And that's why this independently financed melodrama about a love triangle gone horribly wrong has become a late-night movie sensation.
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