Film
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BEFORE BROKEBACK Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger participates in a roundtable discussion following a screening of her 2004 film “Laramie Inside Out.” The documentary explores the 1998 beating death of college student Matthew Shepard. Friday, 4-6 p.m., New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway at Washington Place, 212-998-7608, free.
LOVING THE BOMB Stanley Kubrick’s classic Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964), starring Peter Sellers several times over, is screened in the East Village. Fridays, February 17 and February 24, 11 p.m., Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 E. 3rd St. at Avenue A, 212-591-0434, $9 general, $6.50 members.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION The Museum of the Moving Image celebrates the centennial of the birth of Josephine Baker with a complete retrospective of her films. Highlights include the North American premiere of “La Revue des revues” and appearances by dancer and choreographer Geoffrey Holder and Baker’s son, Jean-Claude Baker. Series: Friday through Sunday, February 26, times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 seniors and students, free for members.
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