SPEAK OF THE DEVIL Marlene Dietrich plays a beautiful cigarette girl who scorns her many lovers in Josef von Sternberg’s “The Devil Is a Woman” (1935). The film, which is discussed in Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp,” is screened as the first part of a series on Sontag’s travels and influences. Today, 4:30 p.m., 6:50 p.m., and 9:15 p.m., BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, $10 general, $7 seniors, students, and children under 12, $6 members.

BLUE CHRISTMAS The Danish documentary “Blue Collar White Christmas” (2003) follows employees at a lifeboat factory as news arrives that the factory may relocate to Thailand. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., between 37th and 38th streets, 212-847-9746 reservations for members only, $8 general, $6 members. Note: The film is in Danish with English subtitles.

TRUNK SHOW The Museum of Modern Art’s mammoth film series “112 Years of Cinema” screens “Elephant Boy” (1937), a British film based on a Rudyard Kipling story. In his first film role, Sabu plays a young elephant keeper who saves his animal from mistreatment by driving it into the woods. There, he witnesses a majestic “dance of the wild elephants.” Sabu, probably the first Indian movie star, went on to portray Mowgli in the classic live-action version of Kipling’s “Jungle Book,” which, like “Elephant Boy,” was directed by Zoltan Korda. Tomorow, 8 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. 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.

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