The weekend’s here! Friday night, Academy @ LACMA presents its newest series, Haunted Screens: Expressionism in the German Cinema and Its Influence, featuring four iconic, groundbreaking films from the 1920s and 1930s, each paired with works they would later influence. Beginning at 7:30 pm on Friday see the stylized sets and surreal storyline of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (newly restored with the original color tinting) followed by the The Cabinet of Caligari, the offbeat American remake seldom seen. This film series runs through the month of October. Be sure to discover the series' inspiration in the special exhibition Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s. Earlier in the evening, Jazz at LACMA presents the Louis Van Taylor Sextet at 6 pm (free and open to the public).

Unknown photographer, set photograph from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari), 1919, directed by Robert Wiene, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies

See more from the Academy @ LACMA during Saturday’s film series, The Perfect Match: Hollywood Costume Collaborations, bringing to the forefront the creative collaboration between directors and costume designers. At 5 pm see No Country for Old Men, featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Javier Bardem and vision from the Coen brothers, then stick around for more Coen brother adventure in The Big Lebowski at 7:30 pm. This special screening includes an appearance from costume designer Mary Zophres in conversation with Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Around the galleries, take a tour of LACMA’s collection of Japanese Art at 1 pm or at 3 pm. Plus, learn more about Islamic Art in a 50-minute docent-led tour.

Tomoko Sasaki, Japan, active 20th century, for Nuno Corporation, Japan, founded 1984, Textile Fragment, “Threadstray,” Japan, 2006, Collection of Lloyd E. Cotsen, photo © The Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research

There’s a lot to uncover around campus, including Princely Traditions and Colonial Pursuits in India, which looks at the complex visual history between South Asian artistic traditions and the changes introduced by colonial rule in the 19th century; the new and exciting techniques and form used in contemporary art as demonstrated in Variations: Conversation in and around Abstract Painting; and the visually and intellectually compelling stories gleaned in Fragmentary Tales: Selections from the Lloyd Cotsen “Textile Traces” Collection. At 2 pm Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, curator of African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, talks about how celestial bodies serve as a source of inspiration in the creation of African art in both the past and present. This lecture is free and open to the public. Earlier at 12:30 pm, Andell Family Sundays experiments with drawing materials and techniques in this weekly family happening. Finally, see pianist Nadia Shpachenko at Sundays Live at 6 pm.