Friday Happenings

Movies

Bostonist is a big fan of cross dressing and all things Billy Wilder, which puts Some Like it Hot (1959) among our favorite things. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis evade the mob by passing as women in an all-female band that, coincidentally, also includes Marilyn Monroe. The trailer promises that "you've never laughed more at sex, or a picture about it," so there's that. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and showtimes.

Touch of Evil (1958), the movie in which Charlton Heston plays a Mexican police officer, lives up to its hype. From the famous three-minute tracking shot that opens the movie, to the closing moments, Orson Welles's masterpiece works at the extremes of the conventional visual language of film. It's an exclamation point at the end of traditional studio filmmaking. Museum of Fine Arts, 8 p.m. $10/$8.

Music

The Middle East hosts a showcase of local and local-ish bands that seem to share one thing in common: a love of weed. Boston's The Void Union plays throwback ska and reggae that straddles the line between the sixties' style and the seventies'. Cambridge psychedelic pop act Emeen Z channels the Byrds and the Paisley Underground. The Buddhi, from Ithaca by way of Boston, plays a catholic funk that incorporates dub, jazz, and lounge music. The Stress also performs. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $9.