5:30pm / Music

For the first time in memory, the Ojai Music Festival has expanded from its usual Friday-to-Sunday weekend format. Tonight’s Sundowner Concert offers a taste of the full weekend to come: adventuresome music from a surprising place--Finland, where, it’s claimed, there are more musicians per capita than any other country in the world. The guest music director for the 53rd annual festival is Esa-Pekka Salonen. His buddies in the new music group the Toimii Ensemble entertain tonight with the Clarinet Quintet by Magnus Lindberg (Ojai composer in residence) and guitar works. Friday, Saturday and Sunday bring premieres from Lindberg and Salonen, appearances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its New Music Group, a recital by pianist (and Finn) Olli Mustonen, plus forays into opera, theater and art--Finnish style.

* Ojai Sundowner Concert II, 5:30 p.m., $5, Ojai Art Center, 117 Montgomery St., Ojai. Subsequent events at the art center and the outdoor Libbey Bowl on Ojai’s main street. $12 to $42. (805) 646-2053.

8pm / Movies

The American Cinematheque is presenting “Forbidden Games: The Films of William Friedkin,” a 14-part retrospective of the prominent director’s work including such landmark films as “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” less commercial fare such as “Boys in the Band” and “Cruising,” as well as two of Friedkin’s documentary gems from the 1960s, “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Bold Men.” The series will kick off with the 1977 film “The Sorcerer,” a remake of H.G. Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear,” and a post-screening discussion with Friedkin.

* American Cinematheque presents “Forbidden Games: The Films of William Friedkin,” Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Tonight at 8: “The Sorcerer,” discussion with Friedkin to follow. Friday: 7 p.m., “The French Connection,” discussion with Friedkin to follow; 9:45 p.m., “Boys in the Band.” Saturday: 4 p.m., “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Bold Men”; 6:30 p.m., “The Exorcist,” discussion with Friedkin to follow; 9:45 p.m., “The French Connection.” Sunday: 4 p.m., “The Birthday Party”; 6:30 p.m., “Good Times” and “The Night They Raided Minsky’s.” June 11: 7 p.m., “To Live and Die in L.A.,” discussion with Friedkin to follow; 9:45 p.m., “The Sorcerer.” June 12: 6 p.m., “Cruising,” discussion with Friedkin to follow; 9 p.m., “Rampage” and “Jade.” June 13: 4 p.m., “The Brink’s Job”; 6:45 p.m., “The Exorcist.” $5 to $7. (323) 466-FILM, Ext. 2.

8pm / Theater

“Bob Funk,” a new comedy by Craig Carlisle about the delayed coming-of-age of a man in his 30s, features “Party of Five’s” Paula Devicq as the object of desire for two brothers.

* “Bob Funk,” Tamarind Theatre, 5919 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m. Ends June 26. $10. (310) 358-2969.

Freebie: Culture Clash performs its doc-theater work, “Radio Mambo,” at the Watercourt, 350 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., 8:30 p.m. (213) 687-2159.