MUSIC/FILM: Snatch up some tickets, while they're still available to Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, a special, live SFIFF presentation featuring the UK's Tindersticks performing works from an original score that they created to accompany six films by French director Claire Denis. Stream a compilation of tracks from the Tindersticks' 5-album set Claire Denis Film Scores (1996-2009) here, and see clips of the films and soundtrack here.

8:30 p.m. // Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street) // $25-30

TALK: Chris Hedges, weekly columnist for the progressive news site Truthdig, will give a very timely talk, considering recent events, The World As It Is: Dispatches On the Myth of Human Progress, based on his collection of essays, The World As It Is, which draws on Hedges' experience as a student of Christian ethics and the classics at Harvard, and as a foreign correspondent for nearly twenty years in the most troubled areas of Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

7:30 p.m. // First Congregational Church (2345 Channing Way, Berkeley) // $12-15

FILM: Feeling vampire flick withdrawal? Never fear -- Stake Land sounds like a breath of fresh air. "Drawing on post-apocalyptic action frenzies realized by George Romero and George Miller and crossed with the brutal lyricism of Cormac McCarthy and even Terrence Malick, Stake Land is an exciting and visceral adventure/horror experience." Runs through Thursday.

7:15 and 9:30 // Roxie Theater (3117 16th Street) // $6.50