Monday Happenings

Movies

-- It's the final installment of the Nagisa Oshima retrospective and your last chance to see a movie in the Carpenter Center until 2009. Taboo (2000), which Oshima made after a debilitating stroke, might be his last film. It's also the most homoerotic samurai movie you are likely to see this year. Featuring Takeshi Kitano. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Dancing Hipsters

-- While other dance nights are taking a holiday, Beat Research can't stop and won't stop. Tonight's featured guests are Ripley, a globetrotter with a bucket of beats from the four corners of the world, and Rizzla, a newcomer to Boston's dancing hipster scene. The Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 10 p.m. Free.

Rock

-- Cambridge band Tristan da Cunha sounds like hippies or punks or the unholy hybrid of both. Playing with Tom Fitzgerril and Neptune. Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston, 9 p.m. $5.

Still from Taboo courtesy Harvard Film Archive.