Friday Happenings

Movies

Want to know why Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) looked so good? Tonight, you'll have the rare chance to ask cinematographer Gordon Willis just what he was up to. The classic film might be the best cinematic rendering of the city and its architecture, and it doesn't hurt that it was one of Allen's funniest and least beset by distracting tics. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $12.

Dancing Francophones

The Beehive's "Elite Series" promotes innovative music from every corner of the globe, and it continues tonight with Lamine Touré and Group Saloum, a dance band from Senegal with roots in jazz, funk, and Afrobeat. Beehive, 541 Tremont St., South End, 10 p.m. Free.

Beards

We haven't checked, but we think that it might be against the rules to get naked in the Berklee Performance Center, which will leave polymathic freak folk sellout Devendra Banhart hard pressed to know when his set is over. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., 7:30 p.m.

Documentary

The Boston Latino International Film Festival presents Tumaco Pacifico, a new documentary by Samuel Cordoba that examines the life of the Colombian poor who live in a city of pilings built above the trash-strewn sea off the coast of Tumaco. Cambridge College, 1000 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:30 p.m. More information.

Fans of Hayao Miyazaki have probably already seen Ponyo (2009), his latest, but these are not people who are satisfied by one viewing. Once again, Miyazaki examines the disharmony that happens when people and nature meet. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. More information.