Film
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HIDDEN TREASURE
Performance artist Laurie Anderson discusses her career at a retrospective screening of her work. Her latest is “Hidden Inside Mountains,” a film about “nature, artifice, and dreams” for which Ms. Anderson composed the score with instruments including violin, bells, dog barks, and electronic sounds. It premiered last month in Japan on the largest high-definition Astrovision screen in the world. The event is part of the Hirshon Film Festival. Tonight, 7-9 p.m., New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-229-8903, free.
LOVE AND WRESTLING
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s “Uttara” (2000) is screened tonight as part of “Masters of Indian Cinema.” The film is about two railway guards whose friendly wrestling hobby turns intense when a woman complicates their relationship (tonight, 9 p.m., in Bengali with English subtitles). Tomorrow’s highlight is a screening of Mani Ratnam’s “Bombay” (1995) introduced by author Suketu Mehta.Mr. Mehta is the author of the nonfiction book “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found” (Knopf) and co-writer of the Bollywood film “Mission Kashmir.” “Bombay” is about a taboo love affair and marriage between a south Indian Hindu man and a Muslim woman (tomorrow, 9 p.m., in Tamil with English subtitles). Both screenings: ImaginAsian theater, 239 E. 59th St., between Second and Third avenues, 212-371-6682, $15 general, $10 seniors and students.
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