Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1932) Archival print! Critics Dave Kehr and Michael Fox discuss the art of popular film criticism beyond the reach of box office before a screening of Wild Girl, Walsh's affectionate parody of silent Westerns, filmed in Sequoia National Park. (c. 165 mins)

Claude Chabrol (France, 1992). Imported 35mm Print! Pretty young Betty (Marie Trintignant) washes up at a seedy bar, drunk, bleary, and lost, and begins to recount a tale of marriage and motherhood gone bad to an older, sympathetic woman (Stéphane Audran), in Chabrol's “ferociously accurate portrayal of two women who no longer fit the bourgeois mold” (Variety). (103 mins)

Jacques Demy (France/U.S., 1969). Digital Restoration! This sequel to Lola finds Anouk Aimée, now a little older and sadder, in Los Angeles, working in a "model shop" where lonely men go to snap photos of beautiful women. "One of the great movies about L.A." (Time Out). With short, Lust. (106 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1953) New print! New York Times critic Dave Kehr discusses and signs copies of his recent anthology, When Movies Mattered, and then introduces The Lawless Breed, with Rock Hudson as Texas desperado John Wesley Hardin. (112 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1947) Archival print! Introduced by Dave Kehr. Walsh's favorite of his Westerns, Pursued is a fated family tragedy set under cinematographer James Wong Howe's oppressive clouds and menacing cliffs. Starring Robert Mitchum. (101 mins)

Goro Miyazaki (Japan, 2011). (Kokuriko-zaka kara). Ages 8 and up. A tale of teenage love set in a lovingly recreated cityscape of 1960s Yokohama, From Up on Poppy Hill is the latest release from Studio Ghibli. (91 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1970). (Peau d'âne). Digital Restoration! This charming adaptation of a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (creator of Cinderella) has been called Demy's “grand synthesis of Cocteau and Minnelli.” Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Delphine Seyrig star. (90 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1941). High Sierra ushered in the era of the gangster as existential antihero, with Humphrey Bogart as “Mad Dog” Roy Earle hiding out in the Sierras and Ida Lupino as the cabaret singer who loves him. (96 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1967). (Les demoiselles de Rochefort). Catherine Deneuve and sister Françoise Dorléac are twins lifted out of their small-town reveries by a troupe of wandering entertainers led by Mr. American in Paris himself, Gene Kelly. "Not merely charming or amusing, but profoundly moving" (Sight and Sound). Repeated on Friday, August 30. (124 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1993). (Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans). Agnès Varda's splendid documentary revisits the town of Rochefort on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the shooting of The Young Girls of Rochefort, where she finds evidence of the film's lasting effects on the townspeople. The perfect accompaniment to Demy's masterful achievement. With short, Ars. (83 mins)

Cédric Kahn (France, 2003). (Feux rouges). In Kahn's taut, stylized thriller, a couple's holiday excursion to pick up their children from summer camp devolves into a nightmarish road trip. Simenon's novel is set in the United States; Kahn's lost highways span Paris to Bordeaux. “A pitch-perfect, paranoid fantasy” (Film Comment). (105 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1940). An atmospheric tale of long-haul truckers (Humphrey Bogart and George Raft) during the Great Depression. With Ida Lupino, as the wronged woman, whose performance made her an overnight star. (93 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1949). A fast-paced, violent classic of the American gangster genre starring James Cagney as the cocky Cody Jarrett, hell-bent on mayhem. “Ma. Top of the world!” (114 mins)

Yoshifumi Kondo (Japan, 1995). (Mimi wo Sumaseba). Ages 10 and up. A masterpiece about the awakening of creative talent, Whisper of the Heart was the first and only full-length feature by Yoshifumi Kondo before his sudden death at age forty-seven. One of the classics of Japanese animation. (111 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1994). Varda's third documentary on Demy is a beautiful summary of her husband's career, and features interviews with Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, Jeanne Moreau, and many more of his collaborators. With Demy's 1957 short, Le bel indifférent. (120 mins)


Pierre Granier-Deferre (France, 1973). Set almost entirely on a train en route out of France just ahead of the German invasion, Le train stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a married man and Romy Schneider as a Jewish refugee; the two meet and fall in love when the man is separated from his family. “Granier-Deferre . . . finds the right tone for the Simenon story” (The Guardian). (95 mins)

Jacques Demy (France/Italy, 1973). (L'évènement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune). Driving instructor Marcello Mastroianni and his hairdresser wife Catherine Deneuve are faced with an unexpected pregnancy-his, in Demy's surreal comedy. (93 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1926). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Hitchcock's first foray into the thriller genre, starring Ivor Novello as the eponymous lodger who just may be a serial killer. The director himself called it “the first true Hitchcock movie.” (90 mins)

Bertrand Tavernier (France, 1974). (L'horloger de Saint-Paul). Tavernier's debut feature is an expertly crafted adaptation of a Simenon novel. The clockwork existence of Descombes, the craftsman of the film's title, is shattered by the news that his son has been accused of murdering a factory spy. “An extraordinary film” (Roger Ebert).

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1927). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. In the world of boxing, hungry amateurs vie with professional prizefighters for money, status, and love. (108 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1982). (Une chambre en ville). Demy's return to the musical is in an emotional key closer to opera than to Hollywood-more Donizetti than Stanley Donen. A 1955 labor strike in Nantes is the backdrop for a tale of tragic passions starring Richard Berry, Danielle Darrieux, Dominique Sanda, and Michel Piccoli. (95 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 2004) (Hauru no ugoku shiro). English-language version. Ages 9 and up. In an intricately rendered European storybook land, Sophie must help the mysterious magician Howl end both his own curse and an all-too-real war. (119 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1928). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. A widowed farmer attempts to find himself a new wife in this rare Hitchcock venture into romantic comedy. (107 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1926). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Hitchcock's first feature, a tale of two chorus girls in love, already displays his signature mix of visual invention, sexual provocation, and winking humor. (75 mins)

Yang Fudong (China, 2002). Yang Fudong and Philippe Pirotte in conversation. Yang Fudong's first film is a poignant psychological drama shot in lustrous black and white. (74 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1929). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. A dark, guilt-obsessed tale about a woman who kills her attempted rapist and the cover-up that follows. (78 mins)

Jacques Demy (U.K., 1972). Pop singer Donovan plays the fourteenth-century piper hired to rid a town, beset by the Black Plague, of its rats, in Demy's darkly political interpretation of the Brothers Grimm tale. “Deserves to be remembered as a very strange hybrid indeed: a neo-Marxist fairytale” (Jump Cut). (90 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1927). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Downhill mixes cynical humor with sexual horror as it tracks Ivor Novello's descent from upstanding British schoolboy to Montmartre gigolo. (105 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1988). (Trois places pour le 26). Demy's last film is a retrospective, self-reflexive tribute to the romance of show business. Yves Montand stars as himself, returning to his hometown of Marseille to rehearse an autobiographical revue. “Quirky, appealing, and, in effect, Demy's farewell to cinema.” (Time Out). (103 mins)

Just added! Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1988). (Tonari no Totoro). English-language version. Ages 4 and up. Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “cat buses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved of all family films. (87 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1988). (Tonari no Totoro). English-language version. Ages 4 and up. Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “cat buses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved of all family films. (87 mins)

Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1984). (Kaze no tani no Nausicaä). Ages 10 and up. A girl both soldier and scientist seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking earth. “One of the best science-fiction films made anywhere during the 1980s” (Carl Horn). (116 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1928). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Betty Balfour is a frivolous flapper whose millionaire father looks to teach her a lesson in frugality by letting her think he's gone bankrupt. (105 mins)

Theodore J. Flicker (U.S., 1964). Free Outdoor Screening. Poetry reading by Adam Sussman. Kick off the fall semester in some troublemaking style with this retro beat "classic," involving a finger-snapping beatnik, some Greenwich Village mobsters, and a handful of nubile, too-cool-for-school beauties. Written by Buck Henry of The Graduate.(80 mins)

Béla Tarr (Hungary, 2007). (A Londoni férfi). Hungarian master of metaphysical melancholy Béla Tarr (Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies) ventures deep into the shadows of film noir with this stately, stunningly photographed adaptation of Simenon's L'homme de Londres, featuring an intense performance by Tilda Swinton. (132 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1927). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. An adaptation of the Noël Coward play, a drama about an uptight British society family. With one of the first cameos by the director. (82 mins)

Jacques Demy (France, 1967). (Les demoiselles de Rochefort). Catherine Deneuve and sister Françoise Dorléac are twins lifted out of their small-town reveries by a troupe of wandering entertainers led by Mr. American in Paris himself, Gene Kelly. "Not merely charming or amusing, but profoundly moving" (Sight and Sound). Also playing on Thursday, August 8. (124 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1929). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. A powerful love triangle set among the fishing community on the Isle of Man. Hitchcock's last silent. (90 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. Also playing on Saturday, July 27. (92 mins)