Film
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WILD NIGHT SummerNights is a live music and screening series that shows classic and contemporary television shows from the Jewish Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting. The small-screen showings tonight are a grab-bag of contemporary television comedies. The program includes episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “South Park,” “Sex and the City,” and “The Larry Sanders Show.” Tonight, 5-9 p.m., Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, free with museum admission, which is pay-what-youwish on Thursday evenings.
SMORGASBORD ON SCREEN When Anthology Film Archives did its spring cleaning this year, an assortment of spare reels turned up, separated from the feature films with which they belonged. A selection of these orphaned beginnings, middles, and ends have been patched together into “one meta-film, Dr. Frankenstein style,” which is screened tonight. Anthology boasts that the monster may be the first feature film to be projected in 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8mm. Tonight, 8 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 seniors and students, $5 members.
ONE LAST BISS The new documentary “The Last Biss: Transvestite Priests of South Sulawesi” is screened as part of a series focusing on contemporary Indonesia. Tomorrow, 6:30-8 p.m., Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Ave. at 70th Street, 212-517-2742, $10 general, $7 members, $5 students.
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