Fall Film Calendar

10 -- "Benoit Jacquot and the Literary Screen," a weekend series at the National Gallery of Art, concludes its appreciative nod to the post-New Wave French filmmaker with screenings of "Marianne" (Sept. 17),"The Wings of the Dove" (Sept. 23) and his adaptation of Puccini's "Tosca" (Sept. 24).

11 -- "Satire in Film," a series at the Goethe-Institut through Oct. 2, includes "The Tramp and the Dictator," a rarely seen documentary of Charlie Chaplin by his brother Sydney, along with Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (both on Sept. 11); "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"; and the 1951 German satire "The Kaiser's Lackey."

14 -- DC Labor FilmFest, a three-day AFI series on labor issues around the globe, includes the satirical comedies "Office Space" and "A Day Without a Mexican," in which Californians wake up to find their working underclass has disappeared.

14 -- DC Shorts Film Festival features 94 shorts, including live action, digital and computer-generated works. The eight screenings will include question-and-answer appearances from visiting filmmakers, who hail from Washington to Singapore. Through Sept. 21 at Landmark's E Street Cinema.

15 -- "The Black Dahlia," a detective mystery set in 1940s Los Angeles, boasts a star-studded cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart, and reminds us that director Brian De Palma never met a murdered-woman story he didn't like.

15 -- "Everyone's Hero," the computer-animated children's film Christopher Reeve was directing at the time of his death, follows the adventures of a young baseball fan (voice of Jake T. Austin) who helps Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. Voiced by Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Reiner and William H. Macy.

15 -- "The Last Kiss," a dramedy starring Zach Braff ("Garden State"), explores love, anxiety and infidelity.

15 -- "Gridiron Gang" leaves it to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to transform a collection of foul-mouthed gang members into a team of sweet-natured, there's-no-"I"-in-team football players.

15 -- "The Ground Truth," a documentary, tracks America's still-youthful Iraq war veterans in their daily struggle with physical disabilities and psychological torment.

15 -- "House of Sand," a Brazilian film by Andrucha ("Me, You, Them") Waddington, stars Fernanda ("Central Station") Montenegro as a widow in Brazil's remote northern desert with only her daughter for female companionship.

15 -- "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," Kirby Dick's investigative documentary about the movie rating system, probes the practices of the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board and offers candid opinions from filmmakers including John Waters, Kevin Smith and Kimberly Peirce.

15 -- "Employee of the Month" stars Jessica Simpson as an office hottie who sets her colleagues' hearts racing when she promises to date the employee of the month. With college-circuit comedy prince Dane Cook.