>> If you’re as big a sucker for Jane Austen books and movies as I am, get thee to the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Hammer Auditorium for a lecture by independent scholar Virginia Newmyer on the dramatization of Jane Austen’s novels called “Jane Austen Goes to the Movies”. 7 p.m., $20.

>> Twins Jazz features New York’s lit-groove experimenters Prana Trio. 8 p.m. to midnight, $10. Check out our full preview.

>> Phillip Manning, a prominent British paleontologist, will be at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium to discuss Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs at 7:30 p.m. Tough to say whether the crowd will be made up entirely of archeology nerds or 10 year-old boys.

>> Lupe Fiasco’s show at the 9:30 Club been sold out for a while, but a limited number of Craigslist options remain. 7:30 p.m.

>> If you somehow missed 2006’s Oscar-nominated film The Lives of Others, consider heading over to the International Spy Museum tonight for a special screening and discussion with retired veteran CIA case officer Burton Gerber, who is promising to reveal the level of the film’s accuracy. The story follows East German Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), who is ordered to keep tabs on a playwright the government believes to be “subversive” — but when he discovers his mission isn’t actually motivated by anything other than petty jealousy, Wiesler begins the fateful journey of discovering he has a mind of his own. Tickets are a little steep ($20), but espionage geeks and film buffs may find it worth it.

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