APPALACHIAN TRAIL Traveling Cinema continues “What’s So Funny About Appalachia?” – a four-week series of documentaries on the “most stereotyped part of America.” Up next are screenings of Frances Morton’s “The Big Lever: Party Politics in Leslie County, Kentucky” (1982) and John Cohen’s “The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music” (1963). Tonight, 7 p.m., Barbes, 376 9th St. at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, free.

JEWISH FILMS The 15th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration between the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, continues with a screening of Erik Greenberg Anjou’s “A Cantor’s Tale,” which examines the legacy of charismatic cantor Jack Mendelson. Klezmatics composer Frank London provides an original score for the film, which has its New York premiere at the festival. Tonight, 6 p.m., tomorrow, 1 p.m., Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-496-3809, $10 general, $7 students, $6 mem 696 974 782 984bers, $5 children. For a full schedule, go to www.filmlinc.com.

RESCUED SILENT The restored version of the recently rediscovered silent romance “Beyond the Rocks” (1922), starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino, has its New York premiere run. Through Thursday, 7 and 9 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 seniors and students, $5 members.

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