Film
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NOBODY’S PERFECT The Museum of the Moving Image presents Some Like it Wilder: The Complete Billy Wilder, a retrospective of the director’s complete works. This weekend, Wilder biographer Ed Sikov introduces a screening of “Ace in the Hole” (aka “The Big Carnival”) (1951), in which Kirk Douglas plays a reporter who spins a local story into a national frenzy. Saturday, 2 p.m. Series: Through Sunday, November 13, Saturday and Sunday, times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children ages 5-18, free for children under five. For a complete schedule, go to www.ammi.org.
GARBO THE GREAT In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Greta Garbo’s birth, Scandinavia House presents the film series Forever Garbo. Up next: Garbo stars in “Grand Hotel” (1933), which follows the intersecting lives of the clientele at a swanky Berlin hotel. The film also features John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore. Saturday, 3 p.m., Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., between 37th and 38th streets, 212-879-9779, $8 general, $6 members.
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