This weekend's worthwhile cinematic diversions in New York:

James Marsden takes Elizabeth Banks for a ride in Heights (Photo: Sony Pictures Classics)

--Chris Terrio's Heights (above) adapts Amy Fox's one-act play about five New Yorkers whose lives interweave over the course of one day. That's a new one. At any rate, Glenn Close chews plenty of delicious city scenery as a Shakespeare-quoting diva whose daughter (Elizabeth Banks) struggles through relationship and career woes. Also starring James Marsden (expertly channeling the halting spirit of Eyes Wide Shut-era Tom Cruise) and beautiful cinematography by Jim Denault.

--Subway Cinema kicks off the fourth annual New York Asian Film Festival tonight at Anthology Film Archives. Highlights include the latest fucked-up Korean sci-fi psychodrama Save the Green Planet and the eagerly (if bittersweetly) awaited finale of the 50-year-old Godzilla franchise, Godzilla: Final Wars.

--Get all the Gotham you can handle in the first week of Thirteen's Reel NY series. Featured filmmakers include Greg Pak, Jem Cohen and Todd Downing, whose short adaptation of Mike Albo's The Underminer brings the acclaimed book's destabilizing title character to passive-agressive life.