FILM | Intermission

The Boston Irish Film Festival presents a preview screening of the multi-layered Irish drama. In attendance will be actor Colm Meaney, a veteran actor of films such as The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Far and Away, as well as the Star Trek series, where he played Chief Miles Edward O’Brien. He will introduce Intermission, in which he portrays a hotshot detective in pursuit of Colin Farrell’s petty criminal Lehiff. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre. (BBC)

Tuesday, March 9

MUSIC | The Dresden Dolls

Boston’s own the Dresden Dolls perform their unique and enthralling Brechtian punk cabaret. The girl piano player and boy drummer duo are touring off their stunning 2003 self-titled album. With vivid theatrical costumes and seductively pretentious rock, their live show is one of the most visually and musically exciting out there. Tickets $13. 8 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston. (SLS)

VISUALS | The Man in the Bathtub

Subtitled “Picasso’s Le meutre and the gender of bathing,” this is the third lecture in the continuing “Bathers, Bodies, Beauty : the Visceral Eye” series at Sanders Theatre. The talk will look at the impressionist representation of women and their place in art history. Lecturer Linda Nochlin is a Professor of Modern Art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Part of the critically acclaimed Norton lecture series. Admission free. 4 p.m., doors opens at 3:30. Sanders Theatre. (GCS)

Wednesday, March 10

MUSIC | The Cooper Temple Clause

After enjoying attention overseas, UK rock band the Cooper Temple Clause take their act on their first ever North American tour. But make sure you arrive early for opener Calla, the talented New York-based group behind last year’s gripping album Televise. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. The Paradise Rock Club. 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. (SLS)

FILM | Rear Window

The best film in the Hitchcock canon is sometimes overshadowed by its more influential siblings Psycho and Vertigo. But the story of quadriplegic Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) and his tedium-induced mission to uncover the possible murder of a neighboring tenant is a gripping exercise in guilty-pleasure voyeurism and paranoid tension. Part of the Harvard Film Archive’s “Frames of Mind” series. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. (BBC)

MUSIC | British Sea Power

This brooding indie rock quartet from Brighton continue to tour off 2003’s well-received The Decline of the British Sea Power. Known for wild live shows that include stuffed birds perched onstage and military uniforms, British Sea Power offer more excitement than your run of the mill post-punk knockoff. Spunky English rockers KaitO also perform. Tickets $8, $10 day of show. 9:30 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place. (SLS)

Thursday, March 11