Sunday Happenings

Still from Labyrinth of Passion courtesy HFA.

Two sides of Hitchcock at the Brattle tonight. With North By Northwest (1959) you get the baroque later Hitchcock, the action director. You also get Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. Sexy. With the original The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), you get the chilling early Hitchcock—all setting and suspense. You also get Peter Lorre's English language debut. Not as sexy. Screening as a double feature. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and showtimes.

Even Pedro Almodóvar is in a Hitchcock mood tonight, as the HFA screens Labyrinth of Passion (1982), which has little in common with David Bowie's Labyrinth aside from the eye make-up. Almodóvar weds Hitchcockian suspense with elements of the screwball comedy and the pansexual sex romp. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Boats

The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival of Boston is the longest running dragon boating competition in North America. It's a boat race on the Charles combined with a festival celebrating all things Asian on either river bank. (Events include Korean Taekwon-do demonstrations by the infamous J.H. Kim, Japanese Taiko drumming, and Chinese yo-yo demonstrations.) Banks of the Charles, Boston and Cambridge, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Full schedule.

Open Studios

Fort Point isn't the only part of South Boston with great art. South Boston's Distillery is home to dozens of artists working in a wide array of media, from quilting to video. Find out what they've been up to over the past year—and ask them about Justin Timberlake's reality show—during a visit to the Spring Open Studios. The Distillery, 516 E 2nd St. and 570 E. 1st St., South Boston, noon to 6 p.m. Free. Full list of participants.

Rock

JP band the Needy Visions plays a fractured, demented, and oddly enjoyable rock music that shares as much with psychedelia and punk rock as it does with seventies sunshine pop. It's like listening to a pile of thrift store records on three different turntables simultaneously. Tonight, the Needy Visions is "defending Boston from shitty bands" with friends Ambitious Tugboat, Babydriver, and You Need New Glasses. Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St., 8:30 p.m. $6.