DURAS THE DIRECTOR The screening series “To Murder the Cinema” is a tribute to the novelist, screenwriter, and director Marguerite Duras, who died 10 years ago. Duras’s “Nathalie Granger” (1972), starring Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bose, was show at the director’s home outside of Paris (today, 12:30 and 4 p.m.). The documentary “Marguerite par ellememe” (2002), which combines photographs, television interviews, extracts from Duras’s films, and home movies spanning four decades, is also screened. It was directed by Duras’s fried Dominique Auvray, who edited three of her films (tonight, 7 p.m.). All screenings: Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-355-6160, $9 general, $7 students, $2 members in advance, free for members at the door. Note: The film is in French with English subtitles.

FASSBINDER’S FASHION An ongoing series of screenings of films by the prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder continues with “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972), about a successful, cruel fashion designer who has an affair with an aspiring model. Saturday and Sunday, noon, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at West 3rd Street, 212 924-7771, $10.75 general, $7 seniors.

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