Sergio Leone (Italy/Spain, 1971). Score by Ennio Morricone! In torrid Mexico, just in time for the undoing of Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship, the bandito Juan (Rod Steiger, sputtering in Spanglish) teams with nitroglycerin expert Sean Mallory (James Coburn) to make a few holes with the “holy water.” Leone's strangest concoction-a mix of high camp, booming ordnance, and radical zeal.(158 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1935). The 39 Steps is one of the most satisfying of the British Hitchcocks, a thriller filled with wry humor and sophisticated romance. Robert Donat's Richard Hannay is an innocent abroad, drawn along in a dangerous intrigue in part by his own desire to know too much. (87 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1936). Sabotage is a prescient thriller that puts London on bomb alert well before the real siege of WWII. “The profoundest film of Hitchcock's thriller period, and perhaps of his career”(Raymond Durgnat). (76 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1934). A British couple on holiday in St. Moritz become unwitting pawns in international espionage when they are handed a message from a dying Secret Service agent. “Hitchcock in fine form weaving dry British humor into a story of heart-pounding suspense”(Leonard Maltin). (75 mins)

Sergio Corbucci (Italy/Spain, 1968). Score by Ennio Morricone! The revolution will not be narcotized in Corbucci's rabble-rousing rebellion, which follows a Mexican peasant leader Paco Roman (Tony Musante), a taciturn mercenary (Franco Nero), and oppressed silver miners as they battle businessman and a psychotic thug (Jack Palance).(105 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1940). Hitchcock's first American film is a superbly polished adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's story of a young bride (Joan Fontaine) whose marriage is haunted by the spirit of her husband's first wife, Rebecca. Costarring Laurence Olivier. (130 mins)

Damiano Damiani (Italy, 1966). Gian-Maria Volontè plays El Chucho, a badass bandit bent on exploiting the revolution, whose brother is the demented priest El Santo (the feral one, Klaus Kinski). The action is packed in this compressed concentrate about deceitful perversion and political conversion. (118 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1937). A constable's daughter falls in with a hapless writer (Derrick de Marney), falsely accused of murdering a movie star. Their search for the real killer crisscrosses the class categories of the ever-so-English countryside. A delightful British comedy-thriller renowned for “an abundance of poetic, funny, or terrifying shots” (Rohmer & Chabrol). (82 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1938). On a transcontinental train, an elderly lady mysteriously vanishes, to the concern of one young woman-and hardly anyone else. Hitchcock's seamless blend of humor and thrills is “directed with such skill and velocity that it has come to represent the quintessence of screen suspense” (Pauline Kael). (96 mins)

Werner Schroeter (Germany, 1972) Archival print! Magdalena Montezuma, Ingrid Caven, and Warhol superstar Candy Darling head a cast of women and cross-dressers who perform still-life duets in a series of theatrical, painterly tableaux in this tribute to Maria Callas, Maria Malibran, and other divas. (104 mins)

Monte Hellman (Italy/Spain, 1978). The director of such acid oaters as The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind samples the spicy red concoction of Spaghetti for this latter-day Western, starring Warren Oates and Fabio Testi as two gunslingers setting their sights on railroading moguls and their freight car full of hired thugs. (102 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1973). Actor Ila von Hasperg in person. Introduced by Tom Luddy. Three women turn an abandoned shack in the Mojave Desert into a kind of Charles Manson commune in Schroeter's “meditation on the new feminism in America,” compared to Fassbinder and Robert Altman. With Schroeter's split-screen short Argila (1969). (112 mins)

Walther Ruttmann (Germany, 1927). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on piano. A great “city symphony” of the silent era that celebrates the pulsating life of the streets. With A Trip Down Market Street (Miles Brothers, 1906). (82 mins)

Ahmad Abdalla (Egypt, 2010). This kinetic, colorful modern-day city symphony follows a young Egyptian who discovers a vibrant underground culture of skateboarders, hip-hop musicians, and graffiti artists. “Highly radical in the context of contempo Egyptian and Arabic cinema” (Robert Koehler). With a magical short, The Journey of Stones (Seydou Cissé, Mali, 2012). (131 mins)

Guy Maddin (Canada, 2003). Guest emcee Peter Conheim. Live music by Grale. Beer by Pyramid Brewery. A wintry gloom has settled upon Depression-era Winnipeg in Maddin's brew-ha-ha, a joyously stilted comedy wed to the extravagance of a dizzy thirties musical. With Isabella Rossellini and Maria de Medeiros. (99 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1954). Dour photojournalist Jimmy Stewart sits with a broken leg by his window, watching the lives of his big-city neighbors played out in pantomime in Hitchcock's brilliant meditation on cinema and voyeurism. With Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter. (114 mins)

Sergio Corbucci (Italy/Spain, 1966). Score by Ennio Morricone! A pre-stardom Burt Reynolds is Navajo Joe, who's on the warpath after his wife is killed. Part of Ennio Morricone's score, complete with embedded screams, was lifted for Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2. (92 mins)

Elfi Mikesh (Germany, 2011). Some of the key figures of the German avant-garde-among them Rosa von Praunheim, Ingrid Caven, and Wim Wenders-gather to pay tribute to legendary iconoclast Werner Schroeter in this moving documentary, made by one of Schroeter's closest friends and colleagues. (97 mins)

UPDATE: KYLE COOPER IS UNABLE TO APPEAR DUE TO ILLNESS. SE7EN WILL SCREEN AT 9 PM. Kyle Cooper focuses on the kinetic mastery of the opening sequence as he takes us behind-the-scenes of title design with an illustrated talk followed by a Q&A with the audience. A complete screening of Se7en, starring Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman, follows.

Clemente Bicocchi (U.S./Republic of Congo/Italy, 2011). The story, told with archival materials and animation, of Italian-born Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà, who explored Central Africa beginning in the 1870s, erupts into the present. “A family story with operatic twists and turns” (New York Daily News). With the haunting short Tomo (Bakary Diallo, Mali, 2012). (93 mins)

Gianfranco Parolini (Italy/Spain, 1969). Spaghetti Western stalwart Lee Van Cleef glares his way across a town of “upstanding citizens”-and takes them all on-in this brutal Western. A character's concealed “banjo gun” was later lifted by El Mariachi. (107 mins)

Jane Murago Munene (Kenya, 2011). Monica Wangu Wamwere, the mother of a detained human rights activist, and her unceasing search for justice in Kenya are movingly detailed in this spirited documentary portrait. With an animated short about a Nigerian asylum seeker, Lack of Evidence (Hayoun Kwon, France, 2011). (80 mins)

Fritz Lang (Germany, 1926). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Set in the year 2026, Lang's futuristic super-production is an anxiety dream of urban dystopia expressed as science fiction. (124 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1959). Hitchcock dubbed this exhilarating comedy-thriller “my final word on the chase film.” Cary Grant is your basic grey-flannel-suited adman, until he is mistaken by the police for an assassin and by an international spy ring for a double agent. (136 mins)

Stan Lai (Taiwan, 1992). Stan Lai in person. Introduced by Sophie Volpp. Playwright/director Stan Lai adopted his own theater piece Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring to the screen for this delightful tale of two acting groups double-booked for a rehearsal space. Starring Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, with cinematography by Christopher Doyle. (105 mins)