all day: Movies

A red blood cell, thousandths of an inch in size, makes the 100-mile journey through the vast, tangled network of veins, arteries and capillaries in “The Human Body,” a new large-format film from Discovery Pictures. The movie follows an extended family through a typical day using new film technology to see things at a microscopic level and show us how bodies work.

* “The Human Body,” not rated, opens Sunday exclusively at the California Science Center Imax Theater, 700 State Drive, Exposition Park, L.A. Daily, 11 a.m., 1, 3 and 5 p.m.; Fridays to Sundays, 11 a.m., 1, 3, 5 and 7 p.m. $4.25 to $7. (213) 744-7400.

5:30 pm: Movies

Artist Mauricio Lasansky built the foremost printmaking department in the country at the University of Iowa after World War II. But he built much of his own reputation on the Nazi Drawings, a series of pencil, wash and earth-color drawings with collage created between 1960 and 1966. The 33 life-sized pieces examining the brutality of the Nazi regime were chosen as an inaugural exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1967, and are now the subject of a new 25-minute documentary, “The Nazi Drawings.” The film, which has garnered awards from several film festivals, screens Sunday followed by interviews with filmmaker Lane Wyrick and Lasansky by ABC News correspondent Judy Muller.* “The Nazi Drawings” documentary, at the Directors Guild Theatre, 7920 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Reception, 5:30 p.m. Screening, 6:30 p.m. $20. Reservations recommended. (323) 938-5325.

8:15 pm: Pop Music

From ranchera to pop, Mexican music is steeped in machismo--which doesn’t sit well with Paquita la del Barrio and Lupita D’Alessio. The two veteran singers come on as an antidote to the male attitude, as exemplified in D’Alessio’s classic feminist anthem “Ese Hombre” (That Man). They tell off the guys in a rare concert teaming.

* Paquita la del Barrio and Lupita D’Alessio, Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, 8:15 p.m. $48.50 to $68.50. (818) 622-4440.

4 pm: Theater

“Flower Drum Song,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical in its first major revival since it was produced on Broadway in 1958, features a new book by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Stars Lea Salonga.* “Flower Drum Song,” Mark Taper Forum, 130 N. Grand Ave., L.A., Sunday, 4 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Also Nov. 19, 8 p.m.; Nov. 28, 2:30 p.m.; Dec. 2, 2:30 only; dark Nov. 22. Ends Dec. 2. $45 to $50. (213) 628-2772.

Freebies

* Emmy-winning documentarian Alan Berliner presents a workshop, including a screening of his latest film “The Sweetest Sound,” at the James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue, Westwood, 2 p.m. (310) 206-8365.

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* Conductor Alexander Treger opens the 37th season of the American Youth Symphony at 8 p.m. in Royce Hall, UCLA. Soloist is Yakov Kasman, who plays Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on a program with Brahms’ First Symphony. (310) 234-8355.