Angela Lansbury distressed in "All Fall Down"

Friday, Nov. 14

“All Fall Down”

This psychosexual 1962 trip stars the young and beautiful Warren Beatty as a womanizing delinquent who captures the hearts of repressed suburban Key West women of all ages. Idolized by his brother Clinton and in a very weird place with his parents (screen legends Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury), Beatty decides to seduce his bro’s crush to tragic results. An early work by John Frankenheimer, who later went on to make equally uncomfortable family dramas like “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Seconds,” the piece bubbles with the youthful sexuality that would explode later in the decade. Line up early, as the incomparable Lansbury will be at the screening to talk to the crowd about her six-decade career! Also notable: Beatty and the female protagonist of Kanye West’s similarly-titled “All Falls Down” have a staggering amount of personality overlap.

Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

 

“KEYCHANGE”

KeyChange, Harvard’s self-titled “blackapella” group, presents its fall concert, a collection of hits spanning the diverse history of the African diaspora from Ray Charles to hip hop (props for taking on wildly disparate musical stylings, soloist Aaron L. Gravely ’13). The intimate Lowell Lecture Hall is a fitting locale for the group’s tight neo-soul-tinged harmonies. The Arts Blog’s in-depth investigative team has determined that the group may be singing some songs from Béyonce’s self-titled fifth album (i.e., every promotional material for the event is in the same shade of violet-pink that colors Queen Bey’s name on the album cover).

Lowell Lecture Hall, 7 p.m.

 

Saturday, Nov. 15

 

“Concert II”

This minimalistically-titled event by the Bach Society Orchestra, one of Harvard’s most prolific chamber ensembles, features (no Bach, ironically) the overture to Mozart’s “Let It Be” (“La Clemenza di Tito,” which he started before his “Abbey Road,” the far more iconic “The Magic Flute”) and Grieg’s pastoral “Peer Gynt” suite. For more modern kicks, the group is offering “4 Encores for Stan,” a recently-premiered tribute to the Minnesota Orchestra’s music director emeritus Stanislaw Skrowaczewski composed by local Macarthur genius, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groovy dude John H. Harbison ’60.

Paine Hall, 8 p.m.