Saturday Happenings

Movies

-- You are running out of chances to see rarely screened gems from Nagisa Oshima, and we are running out of ways to motivate you to go. We'll leave it to the HFA to convince you that Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968) is worth seeing: "Oshima launched a guerilla assault on narrative continuity and political neutrality in his playfully experimental fable about a sexually confused book thief loose in Tokyo's boisterous Shinjuku neighborhood." Unfortunately, narrative continuity launched a counter-insurgency and regained the hearts and minds of moviegoers from Tokyo to Boston. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Dancing Hipsters

-- JP's fancy joint the Alchemist Lounge hosts Technolust Live, a showcase of techno, electro, and other music made with the help of digital machines. Tonight, André Obin plays techno pop. The Alchemist Lounge, 435 S. Huntington Ave., Jamaica Plain, 10 p.m. Free.

Bad Santas

-- Santacon 2008 is a gathering of people dressed like Santas. It's one of those things that young people in cities do so that their city is like all of the other cities. Santas will be overtaking bars and other public areas near Faneuil Hall all afternoon and into the evening. Various Locations. More information.

Still from Diary of a Shinjuku Thief courtesy Harvard Film Archive.