RAAC’s next free movie will be The Order, a domestic terrorism thriller focused on the true story of how the FBI closed in on a violent anti-government militia in Freeland, Washington. In the 1980s, when the group was gathering adherents and weapons, counterfeiting money and robbing banks, local law enforcers, uneasy dealing with domestic terrorism […]
Ruggles of Red Gap, a cinematic treasure from Hollywood’s past, was a Best Picture Nominee in 1936 and stars movie legends like Charles Laughton, Mary Boland and Zasu Pitts. At the time Leo McCarey’s film was born, the world was reeling from a global depression, and authoritarian threats were multiplying. But the art form America […]
RAAC's next movie is A Complete Unknown--the 2024 biographical musical drama about iconic singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan. Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Dylan's girlfriend Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, in supporting roles. Directed by James Mangold, […]
This film has surprised and delighted audiences on multiple fronts: great acting by Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossilini; fabulously designed tomb-raiding scenes in Tuscany, grubby commerciality amidst antiquity collectors, and magical timelines that glide between past and present. O’Connor plays a renegade British archeologist who is haunted by a lost love, while edging towards a […]
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film, written, directed and produced by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora, a stripper from Brooklyn, New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch, Vanya, played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The Cinderella fairytale story quickly becomes threatened, taking many twists and turns, once the […]
RAAC's July movie is the 2024 drama, I'm Still Here, based on the 2015 autobiography written by Brazilian novelist and screenwriter, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, about his father--Rubens Paiva--a dissident politician who went missing, and was murdered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. The film depicts the impact of Paiva's disappearance on his family's life, especially […]
RAAC's next movie is the Oscar-winning film, Emilia Pérez. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader--played by Karla Sofia Gascón--who aims to disappear and transition into a woman with the help of a lawyer--played by Zoe Saldaña. Among its numerous accolades, the film won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Saldaña) and for Best Original Song […]
RAAC will screen the critically acclaimed, award-winning film, Sing Sing on September 5th. Directed by Greg Kweder, this inspiring story is based on the real-life "Rehabilitation Through the Arts" program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison. The film is about a group of inmates who find purpose and whose lives are transformed through the power of artistic expression, […]
RAAC will screen the critically acclaimed 2025 British spy thriller Black Bag, 7PM, Friday, October 24, at Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA. Twists, turns, mystery and intrigue abound as a counter intelligence officer with the National Cyber Security Center is given one week to investigate the leak of top-secret software program code. […]
This satirical comedy, directed by Hal Ashby and based on the 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosinski, is about a simple gardener named "Chance", played by the iconic Peter Sellers, who improbably mutates into "Chauncey Gardiner", an influencer among America's movers and elites. The film is a profound social commentary on media lords, and the people […]
RAAC's January movie is the critically acclaimed 1989 romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally. Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby, the film follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago and share a drive to New York City, through twelve years of chance […]
In celebration of unexpected love on the Eve of Valentine’s Day, RAAC will show Jean Cocteau’s 1946 classic “La Belle et La Bete,” or Beauty and the Beast, at the Little Washington Theatre, at 6 o’clock on Friday February 13 ( a test run of an earlier start for RAAC movies). Based on the 18th […]