Monday Happenings

Still from Yellow Earth courtesy HFA.

Yellow Earth, Chen Kaige's film about a soldier sent to the Chinese provinces to record folk songs, turns 25 this year, and its implications for the new Chinese cinema have yet to be fully considered. The film is rarely screened, but it's a masterpiece of realism that marries Chinese aesthetics to filmic modernism. Introduced by Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Skeptics, Booze, Webcomics

Bostonist's own Skepchick hosts the monthly Skeptics in the Pub in which the likeminded gather to doubt. Tonight, guests include webcomics creators Jeffrey Rowland (Overcompensating) and Jon Rosenberg (Goats). Tommy Doyle's, 96 Winthrop St., Harvard Square, Cambridge, 7 p.m. No admission.

Drone

Bostonist used to dismiss Windy and Carl as just another Kranky Records drone band, but, as the ranks of the drone pop army have thinned since the late nineties, we've given the act's music a second shot. It's pretty good. We take it all back. Oxfam Cafe, Mayer Campus Center, 44 Professors' Row, Tufts University, Medford, 8 p.m.