Today’s the second-to-last day of the 2010 New Orleans Film Festival, and some great documentaries that screened this weekend are being shown again, with films about the Southern author Walker Percy, the exploitation movie sub-industry, the phenomenon of the cane toad population of Australia, and Confederacy of Dunces author John Kennedy Toole (playing at 5 p.m. at the Theatres at Canal Place. no trailer). Also tonight is the Hollywood thriller Fair Game, about the Valerie Plame scandal. Here’s the list of today’s picks:

 

Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, 5 p.m., Theatres at Canal Place

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DEswJYrsg[/youtube]

 

American Grindhouse, 7 p.m., Chalmette Movies

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndtsMdk2fc[/youtube]

 

Cane Toads, 7 p.m., Prytania Theatre

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mvV8OT-mmE[/youtube]

 

Fair Game, 7:45 p.m., Theatres at Canal Place (also showing at 9:30 p.m.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SLn4a5W3lY[/youtube]

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, 9:45 p.m., Prytania Theatre

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjR-y0WH-I[/youtube]