Film
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GO WEST, YOUNG MAN
The Museum of Modern Art’s mammoth film series “112 Years of Cinema” screens “The Big Trail” (1930), in which a very young John Wayne leads a wagon train along the Oregon Trail. Saturday, 1 p.m., Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. at Fifth Avenue, 212-708-9480, $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students, free for children under 16, in French with English subtitles. Note: Tickets do not include admission to the museum but the cost may be applied to a museum ticket within 30 days. Paying the full museum admission allows admission to same-day screenings.
WIFE WOES
The director of the Israeli film “To Take a Wife,” Ronit Elkabetz, stars as a woman frustrated with marriage and motherhood. Her brother, Shlomi, served as co-director. The screening is part of the “Women’s Place” series of new films from the Middle East. Saturday, 2 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 seniors and students, free for members.
BIG RED
A screening series of Samuel Fuller’s war films culminates with a newly reconstructed version of “The Big Red One” (1980). The semiautobiographical movie stars Lee Marvin as a World War II commander leading his troops through combat and boredom. The producer of the reconstructed edition, Richard Schickel, introduces one of the screenings (Sunday, 5:30 p.m.). “The Big Red One”: Saturday and Sunday, 2, 5:30 and 9 p.m. Fuller festival: Tomorrow through Sunday, times vary, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette St., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, $10 general, $7 seniors, students, and children under 12, $6 members.
GOD COMPLEX
John Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975) stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as British soldiers in India who are mistaken for gods. The story was adapted from a Rudyard Kipling tale. The film is shown this weekend at the Rubin Museum of Art, which serves “Freemason’s Handshake” cocktails during the screening. Saturday, 7-10 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, free admission, $12 bar minimum.
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