Film

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SHOW OF SHOWS 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. Up next is an evening of classic comedies, including episodes of “The Goldbergs,” “Your Show of Shows,” and “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Tamara Volskaya and Anatoly Trofimov perform Russian and Jewish folk songs on the domra (mandolin) and bayan (accordion). Tonight, 5-9 p.m., Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, free with museum admission, which is pay-whatyou-wish on Thursday evenings.


FINGERS AND A HEART The Museum of the Moving Image presents a double-feature screening of James Toback’s New York drama “Fingers” (1978) and the new French thriller it inspired, “The Beat That My Heart Skipped.” In between the screenings, Mr. Toback discusses his career as part of the Pinewood Dialogues series. Tonight, 7 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $18 general, $12 members.


JUNE JIVE A question-and-answer session follows a screening of “June Moon” (1931), a rarely-seen comedy about a New York songwriting hoping to make it big on Tin Pan Alley. The film is based on a Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner. Kaufman’s daughter, Anne Kaufman Schneider, and Lardner’s grandson, James, join theater historian Foster Hirsch, musicologist Peter Mintun, and Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein for the discussion. Tonight, 8 p.m. screening, discussion to follow, Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street, 212-727-8110, $10 general, $5 members and children under 12.


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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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