Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" (1952), about a bureaucrat who learns he has only a year to live, will be presented Friday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. by the UC Irvine Film Society at the UCI Student Center's Crystal Cove Auditorium. $2.50-$4.50. (714) 824-5588.
Out on Screen: Queer Film and Video, a new series of mainly short films reflecting varied perspectives within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities, begins today at 7 p.m. at the UC Irvine Film and Video Center in Room 100 in the humanities instructional building, at Campus and East Peltason drives.
