Friday, Dec. 5

* A Thousand Times Good Night opens in theatres
* Heathers cassette launch / Saturn Returns label launch
* Conscious Wave / MTL Bassix party feat. U.K. DJ Compa
* Trans Calendar Project launch at Cabaret Playhouse
* Jacques Greene plays Bar le Ritz PDB

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Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche
 
See Erik Poppe’s A Thousand Times Good Night, starring Juliette Binoche as a war photographer who is seriously wounded while covering a conflict in Kabul. Winner of a special jury prize at Montreal’s World Film Festival in 2013, it also stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones’ Jaime Lannister. Cineplex Odeon Forum Cinemas (2313 Ste-Catherine W.), 1, 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 p.m., $12.99

Local band Heathers launches a new album on cassette tonight , and the event doubles as a launch for the queer feminist music collective/record label they’re part of (along with Loosestrife and Doilies): Saturn Returns. Brasserie Beaubien (73 Beaubien E.), 9 p.m., $5 suggested/PWYC

Conscious Wave and MTL Bassix are throwing a major banger tonight, importing U.K. dubstep bro Compa, backing him up with locals/regionals Son Raw, Substance, Snowphish vs. Lockout and Aphotik vs. Shigero. See location info & directions here, 10 p.m., $20

The launch party for the Trans Calendar Project will go down at Cabaret Playhouse, with a soundtrack provided by DJs MindEmbodied, Dreamcometrue and Babi Audi, plus a performance and body painting by Charlie Rose. Cabaret Playhouse (5656 Parc), 10 p.m.

And breakout Montreal house producer Jacques Greene plays live at Bar le Ritz PDB, with Prison Garde and Iron Galaxy. 179 Jean-Talon W., 11 p.m., $20
 
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