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City Paper's Guide to the Ninth Annual Filmfest DC
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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
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