Some local movie notes:
The AFI Silver Theatre is currently holding a Latin American film festival, which runs Sept. 22-Oct. 3. Films will screen at the AFI Silver in Silver Spring and the AFI National Film Center at the Kennedy Center. (Thanks to Tina for the heads up.)
As a follow-up to the “Screen on Stead Park” showing of Sordid Lives a few months ago, The Center will present The Wizard of Oz, to be shown tomorrow night (Sat., Sept. 25), at 8:30 p.m. The entrance to Stead Park is on P Street NW, between 16th and 17th. [Update: We went and had a great time. Thom has the scoop.]
Reel Affirmations, the annual gay and lesbian film festival now in its 14th year, runs Oct. 14-23. Films will screen at the Lincoln Theatre, the Goldman Theater at the D.C. Jewish Community Center, and the Goethe-Institut.
And finally, in memoriam: Visions, the cozy, quirky bar-cum-theater on Florida Avenue NW, rolled its final reel last night and has closed. I had been there only twice since I moved to D.C. (the same year it opened), but both times were with Thom (to see Girls Will Be Girls and Más que amor, frenesí), so the place holds some good memories for me and I’m sad to see it go. A farewell party, free and open to the public, will be held this Sunday night (Sept. 26) starting at 6 p.m.