Kirsten Weiss, 2003-2005 Michalke Curatorial Intern, gives a talk to accompany the exhibit commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2 p.m. Free. (MPL)

monday, dec. 15

MUSIC | Apollo Sunshine

Boston band Apollo Sunshine rocks in Cambridge. 8:30 p.m. Tickets $7. T.T.’s, 10 Brookline St. (ADH)

FILM | From Here to Eternity

Fifty years after its release, From Here to Eternity, based on the revolutionary war novel by James Jones, still has something to offer modern audiences. Go to see Frank Sinatra in the role that confirmed that the then up-and-coming actor’s star had arrived; or just go to see a young Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr make out in their notorious sex scene on the beach. Either way, From Here to Eternity will be certain sure to warm your ice-cold days. Through Dec. 18. 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. Tickets $12; Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. (VMA)

FILM | No Place to Go

The Harvard Film Archives will show this 2000 German film (with English subtitles) two days before winter break. If the Christmas season has you overdosed with hopefulness, go see this decidedly less-than-optimistic film that provides a grim account of post-Cold War life, with a remarkable central performance by Hannelore Elsner. 7 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street. (VMA)

FILM | Work in Progress

See the real world at work in this 2001 Spanish semi-documentary with English subtitles that follows the residents displaced when the upper class’s need for space and construction expands and collides with the inner-city. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street. (VMA)

VISUALS | Code Switcher

Mixing elements such as photo-silkscreens and bell jars, this unique installation by Rosalía Bermúdez manages to charm and stun viewers with its presentation of the immigrant experience. Visit the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies before Christmas break to get a last look at this exhibit. Through Jan. 15. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 61 Kirkland St. (VMA)

films

The Human Stain

In the midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream—a light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero, and Nicole Kidman is less so as the battered Faunia, the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions, falling victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. The Human Stain is a story better left in print. (TIH)