8:30 pm: Music

Leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic, composer-conductor John Williams presides over “A Night at the Movies,” a concert featuring scores from some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. The program will include Alfred Newman’s “20th Century Fox Fanfare,” Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Sea Hawk,” “Tara’s Theme” from “Gone With the Wind” by Max Steiner, excerpts from Bernard Hermann’s “Psycho,” excerpts from Williams’ own scores “Amistad,” “The Lost World,” “Star Wars” and more.

* “A Night at the Movies,” Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave. $3-$98. (323) 850-2000.

All day: Movies

Anthony Hopkins stars as a sort of Zorro emeritus who grooms a young upstart, played by Antonio Banderas, to be the new swashbuckler in director Martin Campbell’s romantic adventure “The Mask of Zorro.” Catherine Zeta Jones co-stars.

* “The Mask of Zorro,” which is rated PG-13, opens Friday in general release.

Freebie: Jon Mayer Trio with Gordon Brisker, L.A. County Museum of Art, 5:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.

6 pm: Festival

Pack up the saddle bags for the 2nd Annual Idyllwild Native American Cowboy Jubilee, a festival celebrating western and Native American heritage through cowboy music and poetry, Native American music, storytelling, dance, fine arts and crafts and traditional ceremonies. Friday night’s main stage kicks off with the Jubilee Barn Dance and Western Jamboree featuring Joel Reese and the Top Hand Band. Other weekend performers include Rita Coolidge and her Cherokee group, Walela, singing with the Sons of San Joaquin, western balladeer and actor Don Edwards, cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell and country stars Wylie & the Wild West.

* 2nd Annual Idyllwild Native American Cowboy Jubilee, Friday, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Idyllwild Village, on Highway 243 in Idyllwild. From the I-10 at Banning, take 243 south; from Highway 74 (from Palm Springs or Hemet), take Highway 243. Friday and Saturday nights, $8; Saturday and Sunday daytime, $12; Rita Coolidge & Walela Concert, $15; all events, $45; children ages 12 and under, free. (800) 695-2777.

8 pm: Dance

Begun as a showcase of local achievement back in 1979, the annual Dance Kaleidoscope series has spent the last 10 years under the sponsorship of Cal State L.A. To celebrate the anniversary of that campus adoption, the six-program 1998 event kicks off with a tribute to California dance pioneers, “Looking Forward, Looking Back.” Dominating the evening: samples of ballet and film choreography by Eugene Loring and Lester Horton’s modern piece “To Jose Clemente Orozco.” But works by Ruth St. Denis, Alvin Ailey, Carmelita Maracci, Gloria Newman and Lola Montes will also represent the quality and scope of dance-makers nurtured in the Southland.

* Dance Kaleidoscope, “Looking Forward, Looking Back,” Luckman Theater, Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Drive. $12-$18. (213) 343-6683. Additional programs are scheduled through July 25 at the Luckman and other venues.

8 pm: Movies

Coming-of-age movie “American Graffiti” launched many a career, including those of Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is hosting a 25th anniversary screening of the 1973 film as part of the Academy Standards series. Director and co-writer George Lucas, cast members Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins and Kathleen Quinlan, and co-writers Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck will take part in a post-screening discussion, moderated by film critic Leonard Maltin.

* “American Graffiti,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. $3-$5. (310) 247-3600.

8 pm: Theater

“The Last Tycoon,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about 1930s Hollywood, comes to the stage for the first time. Adapted and directed by Simon Levy, the story centers on a movie studio icon and the mysterious woman who enters his life.

* “The Last Tycoon,” Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave., Hollywood. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Also this Sunday and Aug. 2, 3 p.m. Ends Aug. 16. $18-$22. (323) 663-1525.