Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1933). Vault print! Fox studio's leading couple, James Dunn and Sally Eilers, star in this “rambunctious comedy, a study in controlled chaos in which an improvisatory tone masks a careful development of the central romantic relationship.” (Dave Kehr). (78 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1932). Vault print! Sparks fly between Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett in Raoul Walsh's rough-and-ready waterfront comedy while the visual gags abound and the characters always crack wise. (79 mins)

Marcel Carné (France, 1938). (Quai des brumes). Digital Restoration! Carné and Prévert's melancholy poem of life and death in the lower depths of Le Havre. Starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, and Pierre Brasseur. “A marvelously moody thriller. . . .Seldom has the seedy side of life seemed so utterly seductive” (Geoff Andrew, British Film Institute). (91 mins)

Kaneto Shindo (Japan, 1968). A Japanese folk tale is given a feminist, allegorical twist in this eerie Japanese New Wave classic. In the misty bamboo groves of twelfth-century Japan, the vengeful ghosts of a murdered mother and daughter lure samurai to their deaths. (99 mins)

Isao Takahata (Japan, 1994). (Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko). Ages 10 and up. In this modern-day version of the legend of the tanuki, Japan's mighty (and mighty cute) raccoon-dogs, the animals unite to save their forest home from encroaching suburbia. (119 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (U.S.S.R., 1975). In this exquisite film by Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, a string quartet's visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is (Georgia's) greatest director” (Tom Luddy). (94 mins)

Julien Duvivier (France, 1933). Archival Print! The famed Inspector Maigret roams crowded Montparnasse cafes and dingy tenements as he hunts for a nihilistic, Dostoevskian killer. Both a classic film noir and a seminal police procedural. (98 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1915). Archival print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. The first feature-length gangster film, shot on location in New York, stars Anna Q. Nilsson as a society girl running a Bowery mission and Rockliffe Fellowes as a gang leader. “Regeneration, astounding for 1915, marks the start of a new cinema” (Senses of Cinema). (61 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1931). Vault print! A Jewish woman is forced to accept a passport identifying her as a prostitute in order to travel within Imperial Russia. Stars Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, and a remarkably young Laurence Olivier. (81 mins)

Nikita Mikhalkov (U.S.S.R., 1979). (Pyat vecherov). This classic by the great Mikhalkov (Dark Eyes) tells of the bittersweet reunion of former lovers who have been separated since Hitler's 1941 invasion of Russia. (100 mins)

Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1949). (Nora inu). Toshiro Mifune is a driven detective in this bravura Tokyo noir, Kurosawa's homage to Simenon. Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura star. “A bona fide masterpiece” (Time Out). (122 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1992). (Kurenai no buta). Ages 9 and up. Marco, a (literally) pig-headed pilot, hunts “air pirates” over the late-1920s Adriatic in this whimsical wartime adventure. (93 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1930). Archival print! John Wayne had his first starring role as a Missouri-to-Oregon wagon train scout in this breathtakingly scenic 1930 Western, a trailblazing achievement in widescreen cinematography. (122 mins)

Burgess Meredith (U.S., 1949). Archival Print! In the second adaptation of Simenon's La tête d'un homme, Burgess Meredith directs Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret, and himself as Maigret's prey, in a bizarrely menacing Parisian cat-and-mouse game. (97 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1945). Walsh's down-and-dirty account of a paratroop mission to knock out a Japanese radar station deep in the Burmese jungle remains one of the most exciting combat movies of WWII. With Errol Flynn. (142 mins)

Marcel Carné (France, 1950). Jean Gabin plays a middle-aged restaurateur falling slowly in love with his mistress's young sister in Carné's adaptation of Simenon's complex love story. “All in all, La Marie du port is a delight. It is subtle, witty, and civilized” (New Yorker). (85 mins)

Jaromil Jires (Czechoslovakia, 1971). (A Pozdravuji Vlastovsky). Jires, famed for The Joke and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, here adapts the experiences of a female Czech resistance fighter during WWII, who was imprisoned by the Nazis and sentenced to death. “Communicates an effect of spiritual intensity” (Peter Hames). (86 mins)

Stefan Uher (Czechoslovakia, 1972). (Javor a Juliana). Three wandering musicians fashion instruments out of a maple tree haunted by the spirit of a lovelorn girl, and are cursed as a result, in this fairy tale-cum-social allegory from Slovak director Uher (Sunshine in a Net). (92 mins)

Phil Karlson (U.S., 1957). Archival Print! Eddie Rico thinks he's finally out of the mob, but family ties (and “family” ties) soon draw him back in. Based on Simenon's Les frères Rico, Karlson's hardboiled noir rewrites the greeting-card sentiments of fifties family values into a treatise on entrapment and betrayal. (92 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 2001). (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi). Ages 8 and up. In this Oscar-winning fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. (125 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1942). Walsh's sweeping biopic of General Custer's tragic trajectory may be factually false, but when it comes to Union assaults at Gettysburg and cavalry charges at the Little Big Horn, he gets it right. Starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. (138 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1961). Digital Restoration! A nightclub dancer (Anouk Aimée) waits, against all logic, for the return of the lover who left her with a child seven years earlier. Demy's first feature, "among the most neglected major works of the French New Wave” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). With short, Le sabotier du Val de Loire. (114 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1962). (La baie des anges). Digital Restoration! Jeanne Moreau is a faded gambler ready for one last spin along the French Riviera, accompanied by a puppyish bank clerk. Music by Michel Legrand. "An exhibition of cinematic personality reminiscent of Dietrich's best” (NY Times). (85 mins)



Patrice Leconte (France, 1989). Archival Print! Michel Blanc stars as the titular Monsieur Hire, an orderly, precise man who enjoys watching people (especially his beautiful neighbor). But is he a killer, too? “Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose, not unlike Leconte's controlled visual style here” (Roger Ebert). (81 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1926). Archival print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. In this war-is-hell silent epic, soldiers Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe star as rivals for the attention of Dolores Del Rio. (120 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1964). (Les parapluies de Cherbourg). Digital Restoration! A paean to Catherine Deneuve, French design, 1960s chic, MGM musicals, and the songs of Michel Legrand. A boy and girl love, lose, love again, and lose again against an assortment of fabulous wallpaper, singing all the while. Repeated on Saturday, August 31. (92 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1997). (Mononoke Hime). Ages 12 and up. In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of the earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. An epic cinematic experience. (133 mins)

Henry Hathaway (U.S., 1956). Digital Restoration! Joseph Cotton and Van Johnson star as bitterly estranged brothers, living among the not-so-gentlemanly ranchers of Nogales. Shot in ‘Scope by the great Lee Garmes. “A nice balance of studio-bred opulence and willful leanness, and a keen sense of appropriately Simenonian harshness” (Film Comment). (88 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1991). (Jacquot de Nantes). Demy's wife Agnès Varda (Vagabond, The Gleaners and I) crafted this affecting and enlightening portrait of the artist as a young boy in 1940s Nantes. "A one-of-a-kind celebration” (NY Times). (118 mins)