DECO ON STREEN Film Forum marks Art Deco Week with a double feature of period films and an illustrated slide lecture by the authors of “Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood” (Hennessey and Ingalls), Howard Mandelbaum and Eric Myers. “Top of the Town” (1937), in which a romance plays out in part in the deco-decorated Moonbeam Room, screens after each lecture (2:45 p.m. and 7 p.m.). Devoted deco fans can then take in “Reaching for the Moon” (1930), in which Douglas Fairbanks plays a Wall Street hotshot who falls for a glamorous pilot (1 p.m., 5:15 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.). All events: Today, Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street, 212-727-8110, $10 general, $5 members and children under 12, $5 seniors before 5 p.m.

EARLY ‘EMPIRE’ Makor offers a sneak preview of the HBO film “Empire Falls,” adapted by Richard Russo from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Fred Schepisi directed the two-part film, which will air on HBO this Saturday and Sunday. Tonight, 7 p.m., Makor, 35 W. 67th St., between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, 212-415-5500. Note: Tickets are available by Internet only. Please go to www.makor.org.

OUT OF AFRICA BAMcinematek presents screenings from “The Best of the African Film Festival.” First up is “Jaguar” (1967), a blend of documentary footage and fictional travelogue about three young Nigerian men looking for luck along the African coast (tomorrow, 6:50 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.). Festival: Tomorrow through Monday, May 30, times vary, 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.

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