Fall Film Schedule

Note: Dates are subject to change.

FALL

TBD -- "A Good Woman" stars Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in Mike Barker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's delicious play "Lady Windermere's Fan." The romantic roundelay, in which a group of 1930s upper-crusters romp on the Amalfi coast, also features a supporting turn from Tom Wilkinson. Yum.

TBD -- "The Libertine" stars Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, a notorious playboy of the 17th century who scandalized London with his drinking, womanizing and provocative play about Charles II (John Malkovich), then earned unexpected posthumous acclaim as a serious poet.

SEPTEMBER

15 -- DC Labor Filmfest 2005 begins its run at the AFI's Silver Theatre and Cultural Center with the opening-night film "Mardi Gras: Made in China," a documentary about where those funky beads on your rearview mirror come from. Other highlights: appearances by filmmaker Barbara Kopple with her seminal films "Harlan County, USA" and "American Dream," screenings of "The Phantom of the Operator," composed of footage of female telephone operators through the ages, and "Maids," from hot Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles ("City of God," "The Constant Gardener"). Through Sept. 20.

16 -- "Cote D'Azur," from French filmmakers Oliver Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, takes place during summer vacation in France, when Marc and Beatrix take their teenage children to the Mediterranean coast, and a series of romantic encounters and misunderstandings ensue when biker boys, best friends and current and former lovers show up.

16 -- "The Baxter" refers to the recurring romantic comedy character that never gets the girl. Here, the Baxter is Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter), whom we meet during the eventful two weeks before his wedding. Showalter, of "Wet Hot American Summer" and Comedy Central's "Stella," writes and directs.

16 -- "Cry Wolf" features the classic teen-horror setup, that of a practical joke gone horribly awry. A group of high school students creates a serial killer called "The Wolf" after one of their classmates is found murdered; after the kids start spreading rumors about their fictional killer's next victims, and those people turn up dead, things get, like, all weird and scary.

16 -- "G" is being described as a hip-hop "Great Gatsby," in which a young man named Summer G (Richard T. Jones) is spurned by a social-climbing beauty, then amasses a fortune in the music business and moves to the Hamptons to win her affections. With Blair Underwood and Chenoa Maxwell.

16 -- "Everything Is Illuminated" marks the directorial debut of actor Liev Schreiber, who adapts the bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about a young man who travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather's life during World War II. Elijah Wood, embarking on a new career having nothing to do with hobbits, stars.

16 -- "Just Like Heaven" stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo in a frothy rom-com about a guy who moves into a San Francisco apartment, only to have it claimed by a perky young woman whose mysterious way of disappearing and walking through walls sparks some supernatural suspicions. From Mark Waters ("Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday").