all day: Movies

British filmmaker Julien Temple cut his directorial teeth when he made “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle,” a 1980 post-mortem of the seminal 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols. Now Temple has made another Sex Pistols doc, “The Filth and the Fury,” which opens Friday exclusively at the Nuart theater. “Filth” contains some never-before-released footage of the band’s live performances, rehearsals and promotional events, as well as candid interviews with the four original members--Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and Steve Jones--and with Sid Vicious, who replaced Matlock.

8:30 pm: Pop Music

Legendary record producer Jack Endino has his stamp on the Troubadour’s two co-headliners. San Francisco’s blues-rock-gospel grinder Zen Guerrilla (“Trance States in Tongues”) and L.A. power-rockers Nebula (“To the Center”) both have current albums produced by the Seattle sonic visionary.

* Nebula, Zen Guerrilla, the Go, Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 8:30 p.m. $19. (310) 276-6168.

8 pm: Theater

Making its West Coast premiere, the second American production of “Amy’s View,” David Hare’s critically acclaimed tribute to the theater artist, is about a grande dame of the London stage in a costly clash with her daughter.

* “Amy’s View,” South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. through May 14. $28 to $47; this Saturday matinee, pay what you can ($5 suggested minimum). (714) 708-5555.

8 pm: Music

Hailed at its recent Shostakovich cycle in New York, the Emerson String Quartet returns to Southern California with a program of works by Haydn and Debussy, and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 13. The venue is the intimate (268 seats) Founders Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

* The Emerson Quartet, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 8 p.m. $44. (714) 740-7878.

8 pm: Music

Music written in Los Angeles is the intriguing agenda scheduled by conductor Paul Salamunovich and the Los Angeles Master Chorale for its latest concert. The program offers the Mass by Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg’s “De Profundis,” the Sanctus and Benedictus movements from the Requiem by Elinor Remick Warren, Halsey Stevens’ “Ballad of William Sycamore,” Morten Lauridsen’s “O magnum mysterium,” “A Psalm for the Living” by William Grant Still and a “Passover Psalm” by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

* The Los Angeles Master Chorale, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., 8 p.m. $10 to $52. (213) 365-3500.

all day: Movies

Did you hear the one about the priest and rabbi? No, it’s not a joke, it’s a new romantic comedy:”Keeping the Faith,” directed by actor Edward Norton, who also stars. Norton plays a priest whose lifelong pal, a rabbi (Ben Stiller), begins to fall in love with another one of their childhood friends, a free-spirited career woman played by Jenna Elfman.

* “Keeping the Faith,” rated PG-13 for some sexuality and language, opens Friday in general release.

* “The Filth and the Fury,” Nuart theater, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles. Today through April 27. $5.25 to $8.50. (310) 478-6379.

8 pm: Theater

With theater, storytelling, movement, mask and puppetry, Beachworks Theatre Company takes a look at imperiled Mother Earth in the darkly comic and satirical “The Home Project: An Eco-Cabaret.” Its tales of injury, revenge and courage are inspired by material ranging from ancient Greek mythology to science fiction.

* “The Home Project: An Eco-Cabaret,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 2, 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles. Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends May 7. $12. (213) 485-1681.

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Freebies: Pianist Jack Reilly, friend and musical biographer to the late piano great Bill Evans, leads his trio at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.

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The Pomona College Choir and Glee Club, with William Peterson playing organ, perform at United Church of Christ, 233 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont, 8 p.m. Also Sunday at 3 p.m. (909) 621-8155.