Weekly Film Homosexual Agenda

Hot on the heels of his feature film debut in Jesus Camp (Bostonist's most enthusiastic movie pick in October), megapreacher Ted Haggard faces allegations of methamphetamine use and indiscretions with a male prostitute. Haggard was (until last night) president of the National Association of Evangelicals and senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, where you can rent a "prayer closet" for $25 per night and apparently give new meaning to the phrase for $200 per hour. At the top of this week's film agenda is a documentary that makes us glad to live in a place where dudes can just straight-up marry each other and share the burden of exorbitant rent:

Saturday 11/3

The Gay Marriage Thing
Five days before the Constitutional Convention reconvenes to decide the fate of the latest proposed amendment to undo the Massachusetts Supreme Court's gay marriage decision, Emerson alumna Stephanie Higgins' "scrapbook narrative" screens with the director, executive producer, and relevant clergy present.
First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church (630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington), 7 pm, $5 suggested donation ("no one turned away for lack of funds") | trailer

Saturday 11/3 & Sunday 11/4

Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)
The Brattle's splendid Janus Films series continues with a new print of Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert's beloved story of the 19th-century Parisian demimonde, made under the 20th-century duress of the German occupation.
Brattle Theatre, 3 pm & 6:30 pm, $9

Sunday 11/4

Antonio Gaudí
Teshigahara's stunningly gorgeous documentary has "has grown to become the most popular ever shown at the MFA"—despite matinee-only showtimes. The Catalan architect's unique houses, apartment buildings, parks, and his still-unfinished church—looking as if they grew from the bottom of the ocean, or belong on another planet, or they're prehistoric lizards taking a nap in Barcelona—are lovingly filmed and set to a score by Toru Takemitsu.
Museum of Fine Arts, 10:30 am, $7 | pretty pictures on Flickr

Monday 11/5

Smoke Signals
Before gay-porn-novelist-turned-Navajo-literary-hoax Nasdijj misappropriated his life story, actual Spokane Indian Sherman Alexie wrote a novel about a young Native American on a road trip to recover the remains of the father he hasn't seen in a decade. The film adaptation stars Adam Beach, whom you may have noticed recently in Flags of Our Fathers.
Boston Public Library (Copley Square), 6 pm, free