FILM: The Film Society of Lincoln Center has been celebrating the career of American auteur Robert Mulligan, and tonight's film is The Man in the Moon, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in 1957 Louisana (Mulligan, who also directed To Kill a Mockingbird, preferred to call the genre "coming to life"). Reese Witherspoon, in her first movie role at 14, stars as a tomboy who falls in love with the boy next door (Jason London). Roger Ebert wrote in 1991 that the film is "like a great short story, one of those masterpieces of language and mood where not one word is wrong, or unnecessary."

9 p.m. // Walter Reade Theater [W 65th St btwn Broadway & Amsterdam] // $11

MUSIC: PopRally brings the music video into the museum tonight. Both MoMA and P.S.1 are teaming up to host the world premiere of the video for "No One Does It Like You" by Department of Eagles, which was produced by the Directors Bureau, directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama, and features costumes and sets designed by Dzama. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the directors moderated by MoMA assistant curator Sarah Suzuki, and a live performance by Department of Eagles. Give a listen here.

7 to 10 p.m. // MoMA [11 W 53rd St, Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1] // $14

THEATER: The savagely funny new play God of Carnage stars James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels, and Hope Davis as yuppie married couples meeting in Cobble Hill to discuss a vicious playground fight between their boys. The meeting steadily devolves into feral nastiness, and this stellar cast is loving every minute of it. On the surface, Yasmina Reza's play closely echoes domestic-meltdown classics like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but the genre is made fresh here by four equally brilliant performances. We caught a performance last week, and have to agree with Ben Brantley's assessment in the Times: "Never underestimate the pleasure of watching really good actors behaving terribly."

7 p.m. // Bernard Jacobs Theatre [242 W 45th St] // $60

READING: Looking for some modern-day New York noir? Acclaimed writer Walter Mosley, known for his bestselling, hard-boiled Easy Rawlins books, has started a new mystery series about private investigator Leonid McGill who, like the Big Apple of late, tries "to go from crooked to slightly bent." Mosley will read from the premiere book, The Long Fall, which Junot Díaz calls "a searing X-ray of grasping, conspiratorial New York and of the penitent soul of a wily, battle-scarred private eye."

7 p.m. // Barnes & Noble, Union Square [33 E 17th St] // Free

EVENT: Need a quick book deal idea? Head over to the Meme Factory and get inspired. 3rd Ward is inviting over "three gentlemen with five computers and three projectors" to take the audience members "on a fast-paced and whirlwind tour of every major internet meme, famous piece of internet media, and upwards of three hours of YouTube footage over the course of one and one half of one hour. The modus is not depth, but breadth, and constant audience participation."

7 p.m. // 3rd Ward [195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn] // Free