Weekly Film Agenda: Inconvenient Edition

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies.
In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries.
One moviegoer who can be in three places at once.

Thursday 6/15

Jane: An Abortion Service
With no formal medical training and no legal ground to stand on, an underground clinic performed thousands of safe abortions between 1969 and 1973. Jane: An Abortion Service tells their story with archival footage, recreations, and interviews with the women who served as Janes and the women they served.
Simmons College, Special Functions Room (1st Floor), 300 The Fenway
7 pm, free
IMDB | web site

Thursday 6/15 through next week

An Incovenient Truth
Bostonist gave in, at last, to the educational allure of Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation. It's not as heartbreakingly bleak as you expect, but get ready to buy a lot of energy-efficient lightbulbs to assuage some drowning-polar-bear guilt.
Various showtimes at Coolidge Corner, Loews Harvard Square, and elsewhere
IMDB | web site | trailer

Friday 6/16 through next week

Blue Velvet
An innocent suburban Kyle McLachlan finds a severed ear on the ground, and hides in a closet to spy on Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini's unsettling habits in David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece.
Brattle Theatre
9:45 pm, $9
IMDB | web site | trailers

Army of Shadows (L'Armée des ombres)
An austere epic of the Resistance in occupied France, filmed by gangster-noir auteur (and former Reistance fighter) Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969. It's taken nearly forty years (and a restoration by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme) for the movie to debut in the U.S.
Kendall Square Cinema
1:20, 4:15, 7:45 pm, $7-$9.25
IMDB | web site | trailer

Saturday 6/17

Do It Your Damn Self!
Eleven films made by teenagers and selected by teenagers for the 10th annual DIYDS! Film Festival, under the auspices of Cambridge's Community Art Center.
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium
12:30 pm, $6
web site | trailer

Victoria Daskal contributed to this post.