FILM

THE OTHER WOMAN Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-young enjoyed a successful career from the 1960s through the mid-’80s. Before a house fire took his life in 1997, Kim had earned his reputation as a maverick who could helm a big-budget blockbuster or an independent film with equal panache. The Film Society of Lincoln Center honors the director with the series Infernal Machines, featuring screenings of some of his most influential films. Among the highlights is “Carnivore” (“Yuk-sik-dong-mul”) (1984), which screens on Friday, about a woman, Mrs. Kim, whose real estate brokerage is thriving while her husband languishes in a dead-end job. When he takes up with a mistress, Mrs. Kim accedes to her husband’s wish to divide his time between wife and paramour, only to regret the consequences. Friday, 8:45 p.m., and Tuesday, 4 p.m., FSLC, Walter Reade Theater, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza near 65th Street, 212-875-5600, $11 general, $7 students and members.

PHOTOGRAPHY

TOWN OF DREAMS Paolo Ventura’s scenes of a fictional Italian circus town in the 1950s are presented in “Winter Stories,” his latest exhibit at Hasted Hunt. The large-format color photographs are remarkably realistic. Figures in fedoras loiter outside an abandoned bookstore, while circus-goers in raincoats hold slick umbrellas above their heads. Mr. Ventura, a former fashion photographer for magazines such as Vogue and Elle, constructed the set design and the costumes for each scene, down to the subway stations and windows in a department store. Selections from the exhibit include “Winter Stories #31” (2007), above. Through Saturday, April 12, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Hasted Hunt, 529 W. 20th St., 3rd floor, between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway, 212-627-0006, free.

ART

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION Deitch Projects presents “Be Kind Rewind,” an exhibit of new work by director Michel Gondry, whose film of the same name is in theaters. The exhibit includes material related to the movie as well as a re-creation of the video store featured in the film. “Be Kind Rewind” follows a Passaic, N.J., junkyard worker, Jerry, who, having unwittingly become magnetized, erases the entire VHS inventory. Jerry and a video shop clerk, Mike, conspire to re-enact and film the popular movies themselves. Visitors to the gallery can explore the shop and create their own renditions of the home-entertainment fare, which is then displayed in the gallery. Through Saturday, March 22, Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6 p.m., Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St., between Grand and Canal streets, 212-343-7300, free.

IN GOOD COMPANY Andy Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century” was met with both praise and derision upon its exhibition opening in 1980. The Jewish Museum revisits the collection with “Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered,” a show that offers viewers a chance to form their own opinions about the Pop artist’s depiction of such “Jewish geniuses” as Sarah Bernhardt, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka. Also on view are several of Warhol’s preliminary sketches, a preparatory collage, and an edition of the final silk-screen print portfolio. Opens Sunday, through Sunday, August 3, Saturday–Wednesday, 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, $12 general, $10 seniors, $7.50 students, free for children under 12, members, and to all on Saturdays.

EASTERN PROMISES The International Asian Art Fair, a centerpiece of New York’s annual Asia Week, opens this weekend. A wide range of artworks from leading international dealers spans the Asian continent, as well as Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Museums, collectors, and the general public can view and buy from the vast selection, from antiquities to contemporary pieces. New York’s Dillon Gallery, Kaikodo Gallery, and Flying Cranes Antiques are among the 33 collectors represented at the Fair. Saturday through Wednesday, March 19, Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 11 a.m.–4.30 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m.–7:30 p.m., 583 Park Ave. at 63rd Street, 212-642-8572, $20.

FAMILY

ROCK FOR TYKES Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could perform selections from Mr. Rymer’s latest album, “Here Comes Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could.” The concert is billed as a family jamboree and features acoustic arrangements of the roots-rock ‘n’ roll songs, including “Jump Up (It’s a Good Day),” and the piano-driven “Road Trip,” about piling into a car for a cross-country adventure. Saturday, noon, Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 212-414-5994, $15. FUNKY AND FEISTY Princess Katie & Racer Steve celebrate the release of their new album, “Fast & Feisty,” with a rock concert for youngsters and their parents at the Bowery Poetry Club. The musical duo, a husband-and-wife team, offer contemporary takes on popular music sounds ranging from jazz and swing to neo-Latin and electric rock ‘n’ roll to rap. Youngsters can rock out and play with the inflatable soccer balls and other surprises. Sunday, noon, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery at Bleecker Street, 212-614-0505, $10.

STRINGING THEM ALONG Puppetworks presents Charles Perrault’s fairy tale, “Cinderella,” adapted for marionettes by director Nicolas Coppola. Mr. Coppola created Puppetworks in 1980 as a way to preserve classic puppet theater with an emphasis on hand-carved wooden marionettes. Reservations are required. Saturday– Sunday, 12:30 and 2 p.m., through Thursday, April 17, closed Easter Sunday, 338 Sixth Ave. at 4th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-3391, $8 general, $7 children, $5 for groups of 20 or more.

FILM

GUNS BLAZING The Japan Society screens Buichi Saito’s “Plains Wanderer” (“Daisogen no wataridori”) (1960), as part of its series No Borders, No Limits: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema. The film is the fifth in a nine-part series of “Eastern Westerns.” In it, a man, Taki, takes on a heroic fight on behalf of a group of Japanese Ainu, or aborigines, whose land a developer wants to turn into an airstrip. Things are complicated when Taki falls hard for the developer’s niece. Friday, 7:30 p.m., Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-715-1258, $10 general, $7 members and seniors, $4.50 students.
FOOD & DRINK

SOMETHING FISHY Foods of New York Tours, Inc., presents “The Art of Sushi and Japanese Tapas: A ‘Sit Down’ Culinary Experience.” Participants feast on a six-course tasting menu paired with beer and saki while exploring the culinary traditions and origins of such Japanese fare as sushi and ippin ryori, Japan’s answer to Spanish-style tapas. The culinary tour offers menu items designed to please gourmands and sushi novices alike. Saturday, 5 p.m., ongoing, Union Square Vicinity (exact location released upon purchase of ticket), 212-209-3370, $65 without drinks, $75 with drinks.

HOLIDAY

THE GREEN HELMET Merchant’s House Museum hosts “Yeats in New York,” a reading of a selection of the Irish poet’s verse to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day. A reception follows. A WBAI radio personality, Simon Loekle, reads from the writings of William Butler Yeats and other 19th-century Irish poets, and discusses Yeats’s time in New York City, where he lived part-time during the second half of his life. Yeats, who devoted much of his studies to mysticism, spirituality, and even the Kabbalah, drew heavily on Irish mythology and history in his work. Mr. Loekle is also a Joyce scholar and cartoonist for the James Joyce Quarterly. Monday, 7 p.m., Merchant’s House Museum, 29 E. 4th St., between Lafayette Street and the Bowery, 212-777-1089, $20 general, $10 students and members.

MUSIC

HE GIVES WITHOUT TAKING A veteran of the screen and stage, Mandy Patinkin, performs a one-night-only program of Broadway tunes. Pianist Paul Ford accompanies. Mr. Patinkin, who won a 1980 Tony Award for his performance as Che Guevara in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita,” has won critical praise for his theatrical, film, and television work. He is best known to many for his recurring role as an eccentric doctor on the prime-time hospital drama “Chicago Hope.” Saturday, 8 p.m., Brooklyn College, Walt Whitman Theatre, 2900 Campus Rd. at Hillel Place, 718-951-4500, $25–$40 general, $23–$38 students and seniors, $12.50–$20 children under 12.

TALKS

BOOKS GET GRAPHIC The New York Center for Independent Publishing hosts “Splat,” a symposium focusing on the graphic novel. The author of “Zot!” and “Making Comics” (Harper Paperbacks), Scott McCloud, delivers the keynote speech. In recent years, graphic novels have gained an increasingly wide following among readers. The day-long symposium consists of three panels, including a session devoted to workshops such as “Storytelling” and “Where To Start With Art.” Saturday, times vary, New York Center for Independent Publishing, 20 W. 44th St. at Fifth Avenue, 212-764-2021, call or visit nycip.org for complete registration information.

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