Undercover environmentalists, voracious animals and nautical voyages are but three of the notable features in Rebecca Migdal’s new comic, Judgement Day. Get it fresh off the presses–free and signed by Migdal and the Yes Men–today from 5 to 6pm at MoCCA.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! After the signing, see the accompanying film The Yes Men Fix the World at Film Forum.

Who are the Yes Men? They’re muckrakers Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, two real-life, green-living whistle-blowers who expose the corporate honchos responsible for exacerbating environmental debacles like Hurricane Katrina, whale hunting and much, much more. In Migdal’s comic and its real-life variant, they endeavor to right wrongs, perform pranks and, in the process, fix the world.

So read the comic, watch the movie, feel indignant, then find catharsis. There will be righteous comeuppance. There will be corporate covers blown. There will be justice. –Rebecca Katherine Hirsch

A little secret: Tuesday night is “cozy night” at Film Forum. It’s not really. But wouldn’t that be a fun tradition for them to have? Seriously: Go to the esteemed venue during the middle of the working week and there’s a serene vibe to be had. No crazy crowds. No long lines. Just you, your hon and a classic rom-com like Some Like It Hot (tonight at 4:30, 7 and 9:30pm; final three days!). How nice does that sound?

If you haven’t had a chance to see what may be the best film of the year—that’s right, I said it!—and were worried that you were about to miss your opportunity, fret not: Film Forum has extended its run of Claire Denis’s gorgeous, sublime drama about fathers, daughters, diasporas, train conductors, Ozu homages and how to best seduce someone with a Commodores song. (That’d be “Nightshift,” for those of you playing along at home.) But don’t think that this moving ode to the process of leaving the nest will be around forever. We strongly recommend you check it out ASAP. And by the way, the next round is on you. 35 Shots of Rum screens today at 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50 and 9:50pm.

Team Film’s all about the specialty theaters this weekend. Film Forum is the place to be for our two five-star picks, Claire Denis’s recent 35 Shots of Rum (her latest, White Material, screens in this year’s New York Film Festival) and John Huston’s blue-collar boxing classic Fat City (1972). The Museum of Modern Art is where you’ll find our four-star selection, Harmony and Me, starring indie-rocker Justin Rice. And for a retro fix, head on over to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Juliette Binoche tribute, where you should be certain to catch Damage (1992) and Flight of the Red Balloon (2007).

Tonight, Film Forum wraps up its Monday series “Mason Most Noir,” with several screenings of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. It’s a nutball Technicolor love story photographed by the great Jack Cardiff (cinematographer on such varied productions as The Red Shoes, Rope and Rambo: First Blood Part II) and starring James Mason and Ava Gardner. Plot takes a backseat to sensation, and there’s no better way to experience it than with this newly restored 35mm print.

Derided by the U.K. press upon its release (four months before they would get a gander at prodigal son Alfred Hitchcock’s similar proto-slasher film, Psycho), Michael Powell’s curdled 1960 horror masterpiece takes cinephilia to a whole new level. The “hero”—played by Carl Boehm—works in a film studio during the day; at night he prowls the street with a 16mm camera and makes snuff flicks. It’s sleazy, salacious and creepy as hell, and the estimable English director watched his career go up in flames thanks to the reception this perverse portrait of homicidal obsession inspired; it wasn’t until Martin Scorsese procured an uncut print and screened it during the 1979 New York Film Festival that American critics realized what a brilliant work this auteur had created. “All this filming…it isn’t healthy,” a character tells the psychologically damaged protagonist. You said a mouthful there, sister. The movie plays as part of Film Forum’s “Brit Noir” series; it screens at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30pm.

We’re not calling you Ichabod Crane or nothing, but you’d be out of your skull if you missed Film Forum’s brief engagement of Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman. It’s quiet and contemplative, just as you prefer your Monday nights to be. Heady drama? Sure. A thinker? Most definitely. No need to scamper like a headless chicken, either; it plays several times tonight, at 4:30, 6:15, 8 and 10pm. Head out now! [Ed: Please stop.]

Hot Blood could have staked its place in cinema history for its ad copy alone: “Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and drives Cornel wild!” proclaimed the trailer for Nicholas Ray’s widescreen whatsit. Is it a tale of two Gypsies in love? A bawdy, bursting ode to outsiders? An abrasive avant-garde musical? It’s all this and more, as shown by the scene in which Wilde’s “hot blooded” Stephano Torino proves his romantic mettle by violently dancing a rival out an apartment window onto a sprawling city backlot. This is widely viewed as a lesser entry in the Ray oeuvre, so it’s due for reappraisal. You can catch it any of three times today at Film Forum (2:55, 6:30 or 10:05pm).

“Down there I sell whiskey and cards,” purrs Joan Crawford’s saloon-runnin’, gunslingin’, tough-talkin’ woman of the West. “All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?” Arguably the crown jewel in Film Forum’s in-progress Nick Ray retrospective, this 1954 gender-bent oater puts the opera in horse opera; even when characters are whispering threats or murmuring sweet nothings to each other; there’s the sense that things could boil over at any second. Camp hysterics meet metaphorical meanings (the mob-rules mentality of the movie’s posse is thinly veiled critique of Senator McCarthy’s witch hunts), along with some truly delicious dialogue and the director’s signature intensity. It’s a favorite of both Martin Scorsese and Jean-Luc Godard; it’ll soon be one of yours, pardner. The movie screens today at 1:10, 3:20 and 10pm; for info on the rest of the series, check out Film Forum’s site.

If you’re wearing a pointy hat and got your wand out (fresh), you’re probably already waiting for a screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But might we suggest heading over to cozy Film Forum for a little alternative cinematic wizardry? This weekend, the venue boasts not only Shane Meadows’s exquisite teen-friendship drama, Somers Town (above), but Nicholas Ray’s classic 1950 noir, In a Lonely Place. Plus, Film Forum makes a dynamite chocolate egg cream. Oh, you didn’t know that? Now you do.

It’s the final night at Film Forum for this extraordinarily smart and sweet autobiographical documentary by Agnès Varda. You really will kick yourself if you miss it. As we wrote in our review, the film “finds exuberance in the act of recollection, like making a happy discovery in a thrift store.” And you all remember what happened when you didn’t buy that long-coveted, out-of-print vinyl version of Missing Persons’s Spring Session M—an album that you raved about for years, yet still didn’t have the cash for at the time—even though there was an ATM in the record store.

Dr. Strangelove. Stop worrying, okay?

Film
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire is still the funniest movie about nuclear annihilation.

Do your duty
Memorial Day Parade
Honor the men and women in our armed forces, past and present.

Clubs
Beats and BBQ
Free deep and soulful house and barbecued whatnots in Bushwick starting at 4pm. It’s what holidays were made for.

New this week
Locanda Verde
Robert De Niro has brought in the big guns to whip his Tribeca eatery into shape. See if you get blown away.

Music
Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra
Groove your ass off to 30 musicians and one veteran percussionist.

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The singer-songwriter brings his quietly scathing songs of love and regret to the Apollo Theater.

Eat out
Kajitsu
Possibly New York’s only kaiseki restaurant to offer the centuries-old Zen Buddhist vegetarian cuisine known as shojin.

Washing day
Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose
Writers from travel blog The Accidental Extremist and Loads of Prose discuss their craziest experiences on the road in a Laundromat.

Film
Burma VJ
Anders Østergaard’s documentary follows renegade video journalists during Burma’s 2007 protests.

Comedy
The Dave Hill Explosion
The shy and awkward Dave Hill usually scores a celebrity guest at his UCB show, but the star is always Hill’s earnest bare chest.

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