Art

-- Celebrate spring for free with the MFA's "Art in Bloom" project featuring fine art and fancy blooms. A free open house for the event will feature music from Project Step, The Jazmen, The Voices of Renaissance Chorus, Carol and Alida Farrell, and Annabelle Ambler. Dinner options available. (CR)

Movies

-- Slaves, chariots, and the healing blood of Christ? It must be a Charlton Heston retrospective. Ben Hur (1959) is the least biblical of the biblical epics, insofar as its story is not actually in the Bible. It won eleven Academy Awards in its day and still retains its Hestonian greatness. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 7:00pm (also screening tomorrow). $9.50/$6.50.

-- HFA wraps up its series of avant-garde Soviet film with Enthusiasm (1931) a rare (and rarely screened) Dziga Vertov sound film about the first Five Year Plan. Screening with Boris Barnet's talkie Outskirts (1933). Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7:00pm. $10.

-- IFFBoston continues.

Comedy

-- British comedian Eddie Izzard begins his three day engagement. We've heard he's funny. Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Place, 8:00pm. $46.25-$71.25

Caroline Roberts contributed to this post.

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