French 4 Life

-- If you didn't celebrate Bastille Day yesterday, sip wine tonight with the Boston French Library. The event features live music from 8-10pm, and a DJ spinning French pop from 10pm-2am. The Beehive, 541 Tremont St., 5:00pm. Free. (KS)

No Room for Jihadis

-- Jihadis queuing to answer the fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie's death need not bother; his reading is sold out. Is it because Midnight's Children was recently named the Best of the Booker Prize recipients? Rushdie reads from latest, The Enchantress of Florence. Presented by Harvard Book Store. Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, 7:00pm. Sold out. (KS)

Music

-- We still love Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, because they're indietastic. With Ha Ha Tonka and Motion Sick. TT the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge, 9:00pm. $10. (KS)

-- L.A. band No Age is evidence that weird kids are still screwing around with punk rock. With High Places, Abe Vigoda, and Palm. Pitchforkers, bring extra panties. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 8:00pm. $10. (KS)

Movies

-- All About Eve (1950) provided the title for the Brattle's All About Bette film series, a retrospective of Lowell native Bette Davis. The film is one of her best: a lurid meditation on ambition in which an aging actress loses everything to a young upstart, only to regain her place on the stage. It was released in the same year as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard: That must have been an uplifting double-feature. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 2:30pm (also screening tomorrow). $9.50/$7.50. (KS)

-- An epic of revolution, patriotism, and superfluous girlfriends, David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965) will make you into a partisan of Omar Sharif's facial hair. The movie, screened in Cinemascope, lasts more than three hours. This might be your only chance to see it with the help of free snacks, courtesy Trader Joe's. Werner Herzog fans: watch for Klaus Kinski. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00pm. $9/$6.

Kerry Skemp contributed to this post.