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MOVIE: The suspense-filled Stanley Kubrick-directed classic, The Shining, will be screening in Tompkins Square Park tonight. The summer series is going out with a scream, so come end it on a high note with a terrorizing Jack Nicholson, a smiling Shelley Duvall, and a handful of creepy children.

Sundown // Tompkins Square Park // Free

Meanwhile, Film Forum invites you to imagine Vietnam if Kennedy had lived, with a screening of Virtual JFK. "First-time filmmaker Koji Masutani and Brown University professor James G. Blight ask: 'Can a president make a decisive difference in matters of war and peace… or, are the forces that drive a nation into war a lot more impersonal, out of the control of any single human being, even a president?' The film considers Kennedy’s modus operandi in foreign affairs, looking closely at how he deals with six crises, including a belligerent Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is, of course, George W. Bush, his war in Iraq and the bellicose noises his administration have been making toward Iran. What would JFK have done in Vietnam? And what would he do today?"

8 p.m. // Film Forum [209 W Houston St] // $11

THEATER: Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc is the springboard for Reid Farrington's The Passion Project, which explores the history behind the making of the film, as well as Joan's trial, torture, and execution. Using three surfaces for 30mm projection, the production immerses the audience inside the film and the live performance by a single actor (Shelley Kay). Claudia La Rocca at the Times writes, "The half-hour show offers a sophisticated, at times wrenching, encounter with history: artistic, real and mythic. It also forces a more insidious encounter: the audience must deal with its role as witness." – John Del Signore

7:30 p.m. // P.S. 122 [150 First Avenue] // $20

MUSIC: Tonight Gabriel Kahane celebrates his album release--which features the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Chris Thile and Sam Amidon, who will be one of the special guests at the show also. The band is made up of musicians that all play with Rufus Wainwright (who Gabriel also plays with) and Antony & The Johnsons. Okay, enough name-dropping, just go to the show!

10:30 p.m. // The Zipper Factory [336 W 37th St] // $15