We hate to devote this space to a film showing at the Modern for the second week in a row. We’re also leery of plugging an event sponsored by one of our journalistic rivals. Nevertheless, there’s too much interesting stuff going on at Modern Cinema: Great Movies You Haven’t Heard of ... Yet! for us to ignore.

This mini-festival of upcoming independent and foreign films was selected by Christopher Kelly, film critic for the Star-Telegram and a colleague and friendly rival to Night & Day when he’s wearing his other hat as this publication’s movie reviewer. The centerpiece will undoubtedly be The Motorcycle Diaries, an adaptation of Ché Guevara’s memoirs of his life-changing road trip across five South American countries. Gael García Bernal (whose star figures to go supernova between this and his upcoming role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education) plays Ché, and Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles of Central Station fame directs.

The other items on the program are just as interesting, though. Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, which he started filming when he was a small child, documents his life growing up with a schizophrenic mother. Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman’s Born Into Brothels was intended to simply chronicle the lives of children of Calcutta prostitutes, but turned into a tribute to the artistry of these kids when they were taught by the filmmakers how to take photographs. The most irresistible entry is Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a martial-arts epic by director He Ping (Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker) about a Japanese assassin and a Chinese renegade soldier protecting Buddhist monks by fighting Turkish bandits in the Gobi Desert. This three-day fest is like a coming-attractions reel, except that you get to see entire movies.

Modern Cinema: Great Movies You Haven’t Heard of ... Yet! runs Fri-Sun at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St, FW. Tickets are $5.50-7.50. Call 817-738-9215.

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Matt Newton and Jack Noseworthy meet cute Washington-style in ‘Poster Boy.’

Q Cinema is the latest to get in on the election-year craze for politically themed movies. Their selection this month is Zak Tucker’s Poster Boy, starring Matt Newton as a gay-bashing right-wing U.S.senator’s closeted college-age son and Jack Noseworthy as the older gay-rights activist he falls in love with. It’s a romance for the Dick Cheney era. The movie screens at 8pm at Four Day Weekend Theater, 312 Houston St, FW. Tickets are $5-7. Call 817-462-3368.

If you happen to be downtown for lunch, you might want to stop in at the Hispanic Heritage Celebration. The third annual event features food and live music, as well as a dance performance by Ballet Ollimpaxqui and a demonstration of horse tricks by charro Guadalupe Alvarado. The event runs 11:30am-1pm at City Hall, 1000 Throckmorton St, FW. Admission is free. Call 817-392-7564 or 817-392-6154.

Paulie Ayala won his first Golden Gloves title at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum, and tonight he returns there to say goodbye to his loyal fans. Celebrate Paulie will feature six fights, including one between two guys who have been lightweight world champs, Cesar Bazan and Diego Morales. The main event, though, will be a retirement tribute to Fort Worth’s own fighter. The event is 7pm at 3301 W Lancaster Av, FW. Admission is $10-30, kids get in free. Call 817-335-9000.

Evangelical Christians have a reputation for being humorless and literal-minded, so it’ll be worth seeing if the performers at Christian Comedy Night in Southlake can repair that image. (For more God-centered laughs, rent Saved!, which comes out on video next week.) The comics take the stage at 7pm at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church, 185 S White Chapel Rd, Southlake. Tickets are $8-10. Call 817-481-4147.

Brent Phelps’ ‘Clarks’s signature, Pompey’s Pillar, Montana’ at the Amon Carter.

Other photographers have taken pictures along the route traveled by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 200 years ago, but they tend to either concentrate on the pristine locations or bewail the encroachment of strip-mall America on the land. Brent Phelps went about his job trying to steer a middle course, and his show, Photographing the Lewis and Clark Trail, is on display at Amon Carter Museum. The show runs Sep 25-Jan 2 at 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, FW. Admission is $4-6. Call 817-738-1933.

The European music world had only begun to discover the cello’s possibilities as a solo instrument when Beethoven wrote his first sonatas for piano and cello. The five that he wrote encompass every phase of his creativity, from the exuberant early works to the introspective later ones. TCU puts on a Chamber Music Concert in which different pianists will accompany cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi in all five of these pieces. The music starts at 7:30pm at Ed Landreth Auditorium, 2800 S University Dr, FW. Admission is free. Call 817-257-7602.

Why should Fort Worth be the only place in Tarrant County to hear a poetry slam? This evening, North Richland Hills plays host to the first annual NRH Fall Grand Poetry Slam. Thirteen local poets will appear, including Fort Worth fixtures like Natasha Carrizosa, Michael Guinn, and Janean Livingston. The slamming and competition for a $500 cash prize starts at 8pm at North Hills Mall, 7624 Grapevine Hwy, North Richland Hills. Admission is $5. Call 817-427-6621.

You can reach Kristian Lin at kristian.lin@fwweekly.com.