CLASSIC: John Steinbeck's book about a 1917 Salinas Valley farm family and the two brothers (James Dean and Raymond Massey) "who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor," East of Eden, screens in the Castro tonight. Directed by he who named names, Elia Kazan.
7 p.m., 9:20 // Castro Theatre (Castro & Market) // $9.50
ODDBALL: It's like this: "Oddball Film presents Wine, Womanizing and Song, a program of partying-nightclubbing-carousing-hallucinating and philandering mayhem from 1930s and 40s classic Hollywood cartoons, double entendre-packed comedies and Soundies. The program, curated by KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival co-founder Paul Etcheverry, will feature surreal and salacious Pre-Code antics starring famous (Felix The Cat, Betty Boop), not-so-famous (Foxy, Piggy) and infamous (Clark & McCullough) icons of Pre-Code movie fun."
8 p.m. // Oddball Films (275 Capp) // $10, RSVP at: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
BIO: Jazz genius Anita O'Day gets the screen treatment in Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer, featuring Louis Armstrong, Will Friedwald, Johnny Mandel, Anita O'Day, and Annie Ross.
7:10 p.m., 9:40 // Sundance Kabuki Cinemas (1881 Post) // $9.25