Monday Happenings

Movies

Hollywood auteur Richard Quine might have overseen the birth of the modern sex farce. His films The Notorious Landlady (1962) and Operation Mad Ball (1957) each featured performances by Jack Lemmon and scripts by Blake Edwards, who would soon be the masters of the genre. Part of the HFA's Quine retrospective. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Rock

Do the kids still like Music Tapes? Bostonist grows more out of touch with each passing year, but we can still remember when Neutral Milk Hotel disappeared and former member Julian Koster's freak folk side project got the people in the tapered jeans to nod their heads. Koster uses anachronistic instruments and a childlike approach to music, which might still be in fashion. You make the call. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., 9 p.m. $10/$12.

Art

The French Library at L'Alliance Française celebrates La Semaine de la Francophonie with an exhibition of photographs by Rania Matar, a Lebanese/American artist who will show work from four series, each documenting a different facet of Lebanese life. Through March 31. French Library, L'Alliance Française Boston, 53 Marlborough St. [More information]