Ty's movie picks for Friday, July 20

The Boston French Film Festival continues at the MFA. Tonight is Catherine Corsi's acerbic dissection of modern lovers and users, "Ambitious." Just a reminder, folks -- you'll never see these films anywhere else and probably never on DVD in this country. Move it or lose it.

For Saturday, hie thyself to the Harvard Film Archive for a double bill of "Diva" and "Subway," two French films from the high 80s. Seriously, if you've never seen "Diva," it's mix of punk, opera, thrills, laughs, unbeatable cool, and precision cinematography holds up remarkably well.

Speaking of puckish oldies, Alberto Lattuada's "Mafioso" comes to the Brattle in a new print this weekend -- an Italian forerunner of "The Sopranos" in observation and spirit. But funnier.

A Prince singalong at the Coolidge all weekend. Get your raspberry beret and head down to Harvard Street. You'll probably be in line right behind me.

Or, if you're craving new retro musicals, go for "Hairspray," playing more or less everywhere. What Travolta is doing in it is just wrong from a pop culture and closet-trannie point of view, but this is the most fun that both Christopher Walken and you will have probably had in many a moon.

Wesley loves Danny Boyle's new sci-fi space opera "Sunshine" so much that he's convinced me. Like I need an excuse to see any movie co-starring with Michelle Yeoh (in photo above).

There's a new Adam Sandler comedy for those of you looking for 90 straight minutes of fear-of-gay-men jokes, and an interesting two-character dab of venom called "Interview" from director Steve Buscemi (remaking a film by the late Dutch director Theo van Gogh). And for connoisseurs of Dreadful Cinema, there is simply... "Goya's Ghosts."

Have a nice weekend.