Friday Happenings

Movies

Have you been having the sort of week that can be improved only by watching people get mowed down by machine gun fire? The Brattle Theatre has anticipated your needs. Its repertory series American Independents: The Dawn of New Hollywood opens today with Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969). Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and showtimes.

Kiss Me Deadly was rated the number one menace to American youth by the Kefauver Commission in 1955, the year of its release. It's a hard boiled Mike Hammer flick with Cold War and latent homosexuality as major themes. Starring Ralph Meeker and Cloris Leachman. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 8 p.m. $10/$8.

Openings

Boston Young Contemporaries is an annual summer showcase of new work by MFA students and recent graduates from the Boston area. Most media will be represented by artists affiliated with MassArt, the SMFA, UMass, Boston University, and a number of other schools. 808 Gallery, 808 Comm. Ave., 6 p.m. Free.

Died Young Stayed Pretty is a documentary about rock poster art, and Lab Boston has arranged a supplementary poster art show featuring work by locals who are featured in the movie. It's the last art show in Lab's Allston space. Lab Boston, 113 Brighton Ave., Allston, 7 p.m. Free.

Hippie Dancing

Tonight, the City of Cambridge will sponsor the slowly flailing arms of a thousand hippies moving in whatever the opposite of unison might be. Tons of fun for people watching. Cambridge City Dance Party, Central Square, 7:00pm-11:00pm. Free.

Psychedelic Rock

Major Stars has long been Cambridge's leading purveyor of longform psychedelic jams punched, to top volume, through a fuzzbox. Performing with Matt Krefting Band and The Stoned Ambassadors. O'Brien's Pub, 3 Harvard Ave., Allston, 9 p.m. $8.