Claude Autant-Lara (France, 1943). Imported 35mm print! "If ever there was a buried treasure, the delectable Douce is it. Considered Autant-Lara's masterpiece, it is set in Belle Époque Paris and charts the decline of an aristocratic family to symbolize the end of an era and of a moral order" (Cinematheque Ontario). (90 mins)

Yves Allégret (France, 1949). Imported 35mm print! At a seaside inn, off-season, a melancholy young man becomes a curiosity to both residents and guests in this poetic, fatalistic noir. (97 mins)

Jean Cocteau (France, 1949). In Cocteau's dreamlike, terminally mod interpretation of the Orpheus myth, Orphée is a Left Bank poet, and the Princess of Death travels in a Rolls Royce, escorted by leather-clad living dead. (91 mins)

Gunvor Nelson (Sweden/U.S., 1966–84). Gunvor Nelson in person. Introduced by Lynn Marie Kirby. Nelson, who taught at San Francisco Art Institute for two decades, returns from Sweden for a rare visit to the Bay Area. Films include the early underground classic made with Dorothy Wiley, Schmeerguntz, and Take Off, both witty critiques of mainstream representations of women, and Red Shift, a portrait of two families. (75 mins)

Writer Gifford takes us behind-the-scenes of screenwriting, followed by the West Coast premiere of Lucian Georgescu's The Phantom Father, wherein a professor journeys to Romania to research the obscure lives of his late father and uncle. Based on a Gifford short story. (90 min lecture , plus 90 min film)

Emiko Omori (U.S., 2012) Special Sneak Preview! Emiko Omori in person. Bay Area filmmaker Omori (Rabbit in the Moon) presents a special sneak preview of her tribute to Marker, which includes remembrances from fans such as Tom Luddy, David Thomson, Peter Scarlet, and more. (78 mins)

Chris Marker (France/Poland/U.S., 1959–88). This program is guaranteed to be catnip for Marker maniacs-a sampler that spans thirty years and many modes of moviemaking. Includes the rarely seen Les astronautes, the timeless La jetée, the Emeryville-filmed Junkopia, and an excerpt from the philosophical essay The Owl's Legacy. (73 mins)