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Movies If you are suffering from a dearth of anxiety this holiday season, the Brattle has the movie for you. Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's terrifying dystopic fable about anomie, alienation, and isolation, is the sort of thing that makes us head for the Tobin. There's no need to talk us down; we're just going to skip the movie and have a drink instead. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and more information. more ›

Movies Fans of Russian science fiction—they do exist—or of Mystery Science Theater 3000 already know To The Stars the Hard Way (1981), albeit under its alternate English title Humanoid Woman. The story of a female brainwashed space clone who overcomes all odds should warm any heart, even in Boston's -11 degree wind chill, and the version screening tonight is the 2001 restored print, which Joel, Crow, Gypsy, and Servo didn't get a chance to see. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7:15 p.m. $10/$8. more ›

Movies What do you do when you're bored? If the answer is a thrill killing spree that leaves 11 people dead, you might become the subject of documentarian Coco Schrijber, whose film Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies (2008) "explores the art of doing nothing." Narrated by John Malkovich. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 6:10 p.m. $10/$8. more ›

Movies Few movies from the politically turbulent end of the 1960s succeed as both a serious political commentary and as a genuine entertainment as well as Costa Gavras's Z (1969), the darkly comic thriller that tells the story of a real-life political assassination in Greece and the efforts of the right-wing government to cover it up. Its fast pace and jarring cinematography alternately belie and betray the film's shoestring budget. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m. $10/$8. more ›

Rights It's International Human Rights Day, which might be cause for a muted celebration, considering the global shape that rights are in today. Shake off the doldrums with Boston activist Mel King as he's feted as the Unitarian Universalist's Service Committee's Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award winner. Sam Yoon and live music round out the bill. Media Arts Center, Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury, 7 p.m. Free. more ›

Parking it up Your Arse It's been 14 years and 17 albums, but we still can't think of Holly Golightly without hearing her rambling monologue "Park it up Your Arse" from her days as a Thee Headcoatee. Her solo music is somewhere between rockabilly and blue eyed soul, but she can still tear it up in the garage, and she always puts on a hell of a show in the club. Tonight, she's backed by the Brokeoffs and will perform with the Wrong Reasons and the Hollow Sound. Middle East Upstairs, 8 p.m. $12. more ›

New Music The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) commissions new work from living composers and performs it, along with other work from the contemporary repertoire, in unusual settings. Tonight, BMOP brings its instruments to the South End to perform music by Xenakis, Bunk and Andriessen. The evening was curated by the cutely named BMOP Score Board. Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave., South End, 7 p.m. $20/$25. More information. more ›

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Crap to Buy Bazaar Bizarre is Boston's annual opportunity to buy weird crap while people play theremins and what have you. If you have to buy crap for people this holiday season, it's better to buy DIY crap from your neighbors, etc. Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., noon to 7 p.m. $1. More information. more ›

Video Games It's the time of year when the only escape from ubiquitous Christmas carols can be found in the sweet sounds of your video gaming system. Or on the stage of the Berklee Performance Center tonight when the Video Game Orchestra brings the digital sounds of your favorite games into the analogue world. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., 7:30 p.m. $15/$20. more ›

Movies We'll stop shilling for the MFA's John Cassavetes and Peter Falk series when the films that it screens stop ruling. Husbands (1970) is a movie about bromance and loss that stars Cassavetes, who also directed it, Falk, and Ben Gazzara as a trio of suburban professionals who go to London to get laid after their buddy dies. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7 p.m., $10/$8. more ›

Municipal Holidays It's David Lynch Day again in Cambridge, which means that the Brattle will be breaking into its clutch of the director's work. Tonight's presentation might not compare to 2007's Twin Peaks extravaganza, but, if you need an excuse to see Mullholland Drive (2005), which you shouldn't, a municipal holiday might be it. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 8 p.m. Tickets and more information. more ›

Movies The MFA kicks off its John Cassavetes and Peter Falk series with a pair of their lesser known collaborations. Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) finds Cassavetes and Falk playing two small-time hoodlums and lifelong friends. May shot the film with three separate cameras that she simply left running, capturing the spontaneity of two great actors left to their own devices. Cassavetes's Opening Night (1977) only features Falk in a cameo, but the acrid chemistry between Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazarra, who play an aging, alcoholic actress and her manager, respectively, earn the film a place beside Sunset Boulevard in the canon of celebrity and loss. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 4 p.m and 7 p.m. More information. more ›

Movies Even casual film buffs know Harold and Maude, but how many have seen Hal Ashby's first feature, The Landlord (1970)? It's a film about a rich white guy who buys a building in Park Slope, Brooklyn and becomes embroiled in racial tensions. Sound familiar? Not in 1970. Cinematography from Gordon Willis, a rare, fantastic performance by Beau Bridges and a hilarious script make this overlooked film worth the trek out to Quincy Street. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6. more ›

Bands Whose Name One Cannot Say on Radio Fuck Buttons brings back the days when rock shows were a shambles of drone and melody and shrieking. Performing with Brooklyn stoner band Growing. Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston, 9 p.m. more ›

Spazz It's been 15 years since the release of Speak Squeak Creak, Melt Banana's ineffable debut album, and the Japanese spazz-rock band has shown no signs of mellowing. For those who like their songs the way they like their sentences: short but convoluted. Performing with Captain Cutthroat and Exusamwa. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $14. more ›

Dancing Hipsters Brooklyn DJ Kingdom has been burning up the hipster dance circuit with his bass-heavy R&B remixes. He spins a "Brooklyn take on the UK garage sound" that incorporates Latin rhythms, dusty vocal samples, kuduro and juke, for a sound that might be the future of dance for the people in the tapered jeans. Performing at the always reliable Beat Research dance party. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free. more ›

Throwbacks After 28 years, 16 studio albums, and countless other recordings, you've had enough time to decide whether or not you like Sonic Youth. The standard-bearers for the avant-garde impulse in rock need an army of guitars to play their repertoire, but not a detuned string or sawn-apart bridge is wasted. Less familiar to younger fans might be the headliner, the New Jersey strum rock band the Feelies, which has the existence of R.E.M. on its hands. It's the Feelies first appearance in Boston since the band broke up 17 years ago. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., 7:30 p.m. $29.50. more ›

Movies Want to know why Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) looked so good? Tonight, you'll have the rare chance to ask cinematographer Gordon Willis just what he was up to. The classic film might be the best cinematic rendering of the city and its architecture, and it doesn't hurt that it was one of Allen's funniest and least beset by distracting tics. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $12. more ›

Dub Rochester's Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad makes a compelling case that there are roots upstate. The music is nothing off-the-way; just well executed dub with enough skank to keep things interesting. T.T. the Bear's Place, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge, 9 p.m. $12. more ›

Huge voices Opera Boston Underground advances the sacred cause of performing classical repertoire in venues that sell beer. Gil Rose & his posse of brilliant, attractive young singers always sell out the Lizard Lounge—with free admission to tonight's vocally acrobatic performance, the line down Mass. Ave. is likely to be even further down Mass. Ave. Get there early. Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 7 p.m. Free. More information. more ›

Movies The HFA concludes its look at the career of Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang with the evocatively titled Rebels of the Neon God (1993), a look at wayward youth struggling with its delinquency in the back alleys and video arcades of the city. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m $8/$6. more ›

Knife Play Japanese punk band Shonen Knife has been offering its hybrid of Phil Spector and Joey Ramone since 1981, longer than some readers of this blog have been alive. Incredibly, the band still churns out about an album a year, demonstrating the infinite mutability of three chords and three miniskirts. Performing with Nashville's Jeff the Brotherhood and Boston's The Needy Visions. Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston, 9 p.m. $12. more ›

Hip Hop Roxbury OG Edo G and Brooklyn's Masta Ace just released an album together, which is manna from heaven for the right kind of rap fan. Although Masta Ace spent time with Marley Marl's Juice Crew, the two MCs are best known for their mid-90s boom bap, and you can check in person to see if a decade and a half has left any dust on their flows. Performing with Dub Station, Suave, Roxx, Kore, Pale Wryeter, and O-Ry-An. Chuch of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St., 8 p.m. $12. more ›

Openings Fittingly, for an art gallery inside of a T station, Axiom presents Riders on a Train, a multimedia showcase of art about riding the subway. Curated by MassArt professor Nance Davies, the exhibit features work from an international coterie of artists who reflect on the experience of mass transit in cities from Massachusetts to India. Davies describes the result as "an aggregate description of the mass-transit experience through a diversity of lenses and media." Opening reception tonight, exhibit runs through December 19. Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, 6 p.m. Free. More information. more ›

Movies The Bicycle Thieves (1948) has aged exceptionally well, and there's not a fully lucid person alive who could deny it a bid at the greatest film of all time. You might have met Vittorio de Sica's neorealist masterpiece under the title "The Bicycle Thief," but the singular appellation is a mistranslation of the original "Ladri di biciclette." Spoiler: There's more than one bicycle thief. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Through Sunday. Tickets and showtimes. more ›

Mummies If you are among the apparent majority of Boston residents who has the day off today, you have little excuse not to high-tail it to the MFA for its Free Community Day, featuring free admission to its ongoing mummy exhibit The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free. more ›

Pie Instead of buying the last can of One Pie and dropping it in the food drive bin (we know who you are), stop by Bella Luna tonight and eat some pie for charity. It's better to donate money than food to JP charity Community Servings anyway, and we need that can of One Pie for our pumpkin flan, thank you. Bella Luna, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, 8 p.m. $10/$25 donations. more ›

Soundtracks The NEC marks the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht with a performance of Quincy Jones's gripping soundtrack for The Pawnbroker (1963), Sidney Lumet's groundbreaking story of a Holocaust survivor's struggle in a world still in the grips of prejudice and the markers of genocidal violence remain chillingly present. Organized by Ran Blake, the concert features the Storyboard Noir Ensemble, the NEC Jazz Orchestra, and the NEC Jewish Music Ensemble. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., 8 p.m. Free. More information. more ›

Noise The Northeast and Power Electronics showcase concludes tonight with a slew of greater Boston's angry young men and their effects pedals. The bill includes Consumer Electronics, Suffering Bastard, Cathode Terror Secretion, and Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, which claims to sound like "Boyd Rice as a Sanrio character." O'Brien's Pub, 3 Harvard Ave., Allston, 3 p.m. $25. more ›