Wednesday Happenings

Movies

The MFA kicks off its John Cassavetes and Peter Falk series with a pair of their lesser known collaborations. Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) finds Cassavetes and Falk playing two small-time hoodlums and lifelong friends. May shot the film with three separate cameras that she simply left running, capturing the spontaneity of two great actors left to their own devices. Cassavetes's Opening Night (1977) only features Falk in a cameo, but the acrid chemistry between Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazarra, who play an aging, alcoholic actress and her manager, respectively, earn the film a place beside Sunset Boulevard in the canon of celebrity and loss. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 4 p.m and 7 p.m. More information.

Wine

Our friends at the Second Glass Magazine offer a Crash Course Wine Seminar on "liquid sweater," the high-alcohol, big-bodied wines that might just get you through the winter. Downtown Wine and Spirits, 225 Elm St., Somerville, 7 p.m. $10.

Fusion

Boston's Grand Fatilla plays an international gumbo that encompasses everything from tango to Afrobeat that can be played on an accordion. And we are resolutely pro-accordion. The Beehive, 541 Tremont St., South End, 8 p.m. Free.