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TheL.A. Film Festival lumbers towards its final weekend today and The Director Lunch Talk series has its best interview yet. John Horn talks to Danny Boyle (Sunshine, Trainspotting) at 12:30 p.m. at the Target Red Room. Another free talk is on tap at 7:00 p.m. at the Hammer Museum. It's Been There, Done That: A Conversation with Mickey Rooney. If you've never seen Mr. Rooneytalk in person, treat yourself to this program. Not only is he a legend, but he has absolutely no filter. Expect hilariously inappropriate non-sequiturs. Another Hollywood legend will be at the Italian Culture Institute when Entertainment Weekly talks with Buck Henry at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for that one, though, are eleven bucks.
Bands on Broxton is back at noon and 7:00 p.m. at the Festival Promenade. Another cool concert goes down at 8:00 p.m at California Plaza downtown. It's Double G's Concert 9Net. Geoff "Double G" Gallegos of L.A.'s Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra will be leading a program that features jazz-inflected interpretations of music from the best films of the '70s as well as Disney classics. Best of all, it's free!
Screenings today are Lady Chatterley at 2:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder, Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation at 3:00 p.m. at the Mann Festival, Dynamite Warrior at 4:30 p.m. at the Majestic Crest, Resolved at 5:00 p.m. at the Landmark, Dry Season at 6:00 p.m. at the Billy Wilder, 2 Days in Paris at 7:00 p.m. at the Mann Festival, Constantine's Sword at 7:30 p.m at the Landmark and the Flaming Lips documentary U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City at 8:30 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre. There are only two more days of festival screenings so if you haven't made it out to one yet, make sure you do soon!
TARGET RED ROOM 1028 Westwood Blvd.
ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE 1023 Hilgard Ave.
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd (@ Westwood Blvd.)
FESTIVAL PROMENADE ON BROXTON Broxton Ave. between Weyburn & Kinross
CALIFORNIA PLAZA 350 S. Grand Ave., Downtown
BILLY WILDER THEATER at the Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd (@ Westwood, enter on Lindbrook)
MAJESTIC CREST THEATRE 1262 Westwood Blvd.
MANN FESTIVAL THEATRE 10887 Lindbrook Drive
THE LANDMARK 10850 W. Pico Blvd @ Westwood Blvd.
JOHN ANSON FORD AMPHITHEATRE 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood
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