Free Movies This Week

Monday, July 27:

The National Theatre is offering a retrospective of some of Elizabeth Taylor’s most important films. This week there’s a free screening of A Place in the Sun, also starring Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters. Tickets are distributed 30 minutes before the show, which starts at 6:30 p.m.

The Fort Reno free concert series wraps up this week. Monday night has North America, Stoney Lonesome, and Pree. Fort Reno 7:15-9:30 p.m.

The Global Water Challenge is throwing a free launch party at the Science Club in DC’s downtown from 6 – 8 p.m. You’ll find out more about the water crisis and what the organization is doing to help. To RSVP, click here.

Screen on the Green’s second night features Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino. The movie starts at dusk, so grab your picnic basket at the mosquito repellent and join the crowds between 4th and 7th Street.

Or take in the Black Cat’s own movie night, a double header featuring the New York Dolls documentary, All Dolled Up, as well as a concert film of the seminal Dead Boys performing at CBGB in 1977. 9 p.m., free in the backstage.

Bradley Graham, an author and WaPo reporter, is at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. talking about his extensive research into Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon and his interview with Rumsfeld after his departure in 2006. Graham’s the author of By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld.

Or, head to the L Street Borders at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion with Zack Lynch, author of The Neuro Revolution, which looks at “the impact brain science will have on law, marketing, financial markets, education, national defense, religion, investing, health-care, government and entertainment [and] describes … the Time’s Telescope, which draws upon the history of technological revolutions to project into our common future.”