Bloomsday

-- Ulysses was set on June 16th, a date known to James Joyce fans as Bloomsday. The Bapst library presents "Bloomsday Boston 2008: Love Across Boundaries," highlighting the theme of love in the novel. Joyce scholars will speak, dramatic readings will be offered, and food will be consumed. Bapst Library, Boston College, 12:30pm-10:00pm. Free.

Movies

-- Richard Widmark, a mainstay of mid-century American crime films, and Jules Dassin, one of the most gifted and prolific directors of them, both died recently. Celebrate them both tonight with Night and the City (1950), a masterpiece of scheming and comeuppance. Screening with Kiss of Death (1947). Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. [Tickets and showtimes]

-- Duck Soup (1933), a war satire, is widely regarded as the best Marx Brothers movie. Screening with Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) as the HFA closes its Leo McCarey retrospective. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7:00pm. $8/$6.

Sick Puppies

-- The New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, known around the school as "SICPP," or "sick puppy," has a long track record for bringing marquee contemporary compositions to a concert-starved summertime Boston. Tonight, Aki Takahashi and Callithumpian Consort perform pieces by Xenakis, Feldman, Satie, and Wolff. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., 8:00pm. Free.