Nancy Andrews (U.S., 2009–10). Nancy Andrews in person. Two comedic horror musical documentary animations comprising drawn imagery, puppets, live action, archival footage, and songs written and performed by Andrews. (60 mins)

Zhang Nuanxin (China, 1985). (Qingchunji). A young Beijing woman is “sent down” to live among the Dai minority of Yunnan Province during the Cultural Revolution in this key work from one of China's few Fifth Generation female filmmakers. With Yang Fudong's 2011 short, The Nightman Cometh. (90 mins)

Lewis Allen (U.S., 1947). A card-shuffler and his thuggish partner (Wendell Corey) bring some hot winds into a desert town in this film noir in bright living color, starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, and Corey in his debut role. Saurian-like with sappy eyes, he only warms up when the sun is down. (94 mins)

Anatole Litvak (U.S., 1948) Wealthy shut-in Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) gets connected to a wrong number-and overhears two men plotting a murder, perhaps even hers. Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey, as an ever-caring physician, add flavor to Litvak's paranoia-drenched noir, told through a series of dizzying flashbacks. (89 mins)

Chen Kaige (China, 1984). (Huang Tudi). Sound, landscape, and political history are transformed into blistering poetry in the film that launched China's Fifth Generation and introduced two major voices to world cinema, director Chen Kaige and cinematographer Zhang Yimou. (89 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1950). Strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck's love-hate relationship with cattle-baron father Walter Huston takes on the proportions of Greek tragedy in "one of the darkest Westerns ever made" (SF Chronicle). Wendell Corey costars as “Rip Darrow,” a gambler who's Stanwyck's only match. (107 mins)

Lawrence Jordan, Kerry Laitala, James Sansing, Stacey Steers in person. Whether dreamscapes or videoscapes, hand-painted films or videos painted with computer pixels, the works in this program suggest the diversity evident in recent experimental animation. Also includes work by T. Marie, Jodie Mack, and Evan Meaney. (54 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 1985). Secret Service agent William "CSI" Petersen and counterfeiter William Dafoe dodge one another across a pastel-painted, smog-stained LaLaLand, in Friedkin's poem of Los Angeles. It's a SoCal where nothing is what it seems: cons carouse with artsy cool and cops crave kinks. (116 mins)

Vincent Sherman (U.S., 1950) Vault Print! Joan Crawford stars as an ever-fraught and overwrought woman who protects her suburban home like a fortress, waging war against dirt, untidiness, and even her messy dullard of a hubby, Wendell Corey. One of 1950s Hollywood's rare spotlights on the “housewife,” here given all the neuroses of any noir figure. (93 mins)

William A. Wellman (U.S., 1952) Archival print! Social-realist author John Fante provides the script for this intriguing look at immigrant relations, starring Ricardo Montalbán as a Mexican-born farm worker looking to better himself in the San Joaquin Valley who encounters a racist (Wendell Corey), his ever-yearning wife (Claire Trevor), and a lost lush (Shelley Winters). (98 mins)

Fei Mu (China, 1948). (Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun). Imported Print! With a visual panache often compared to Ophuls, Antonioni, and Welles, Fei Mu's 1948 gem possesses a melancholy beauty all its own. Voted the Best Chinese Film of All Time in a poll of Chinese critics. (85 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 1971). Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) chases punks and corporate drug lords across New York (and under its elevated subway) in one of the finest gangster films ever made, and one of the greatest achievements of seventies Hollywood. Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Direction: see it on the big screen. (104 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 1970). Friedkin's adaptation of Matt Crowley's groundbreaking play involves the reunion of a group of gay men, right around the corner from Stonewall. In the midst of this reluctant revelry, male hysteria is all dressed up with nowhere to go. (118 mins)

Robert Aldrich (U.S., 1955). Aldrich's scalding look at Hollywood stars Jack Palance as a disillusioned movie star, Rod Steiger as a manipulative mogul, and Wendell Corey as Steiger's oily assistant. Ida Lupino and Shelley Winters costar in this caustic Clifford Odets creation. (110 mins)

Leos Carax (France, 2012). Introduced by Jeffrey Skoller. An audacious, surreal film that shifts from the everyday to the realm of science fiction, via the extraordinary roleplaying of Denis Lavant. Indiewire Critics Poll Best Film of 2012. (115 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 1977). William Friedkin and Michael Guillen in conversation. U.S. Premiere of Remastered Version! Several desperate men, Roy Scheider included, must transport truckloads of nitroglycerin through a treacherous jungle in Friedkin's existential thriller, based on The Wages of Fear. (121 mins) THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE CALIFORNIA THEATER. NEW START TIME 7:30 PM

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1961). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's famous debut film, a hard-edged and lyrical tragedy set in the Dantean slums of Rome. “Incandescent” (NY Times). (117 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 1980). William Friedkin in person. Al Pacino goes undercover in New York's leather bars and porn parlors to discover who's killing the city's gay men in Friedkin's once controversial film. Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen costar. Friedkin introduces and signs copies of his new autobiography before the screening. (102 mins)

William Friedkin (U.S., 2011). William Friedkin in person. Matthew McConaughey plays a for-hire killer with more kinks than steel wool, chosen by dope-peddler Emile Hirsch to bump off the kid's mother. A grubby tribute to family values, few of which are on display. Costarring Juno Temple and Gina Gershon. (102 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964). New 35mm Print! “Pasolini's most satisfying movie. . . . The director's Catholicism and Marxism serve him well here (but) the film's beauty . . . derives from its simplicity” (Time Out). (137 mins)

Joseph Anthony (U.S., 1956). Conman Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) is a bogus rainmaker aiming to “help” a parched Depression-era Kansas town out of its drought-or at least its cash. Katharine Hepburn plays a spinster who falls for this traveling trickster, and Wendell Corey is the town's dowdy, damaged deputy. (120 mins)

John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson (U.S./Afghanistan, 2012). John Gianvito and Jeffrey Skoller in conversation. An omnibus film by five politically committed filmmakers focusing on the impact of the war in Afghanistan. (129 mins, plus conversation)

John Gianvito (U.S., 2007). John Gianvito in person. A minimalist memorial to America's radicals and freethinkers, inspired by Howard Zinn. (58 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy, 1963/2008). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's 1963 film essay, constructed from newsreel footage accompanied by poetic and political commentary, reveals his radical view of history. With La ricotta. (116 mins)

John H. Auer (U.S., 1954). Archival print! The swaying palms and lapping waves of Waikiki give way to the sordid darkness of nearby Chinatown in this little-known Aloha Noir. Wendell Corey (in a rare starring role) plays an island gangster gone legit, until, of course, he's brought back into the game…. Elsa Lanchester, Evelyn Keyes, and Philip Ahn costar. (90 mins)

Philip Kaufman (U.S., 1978). Free outdoor movie! Plus shorts and other surprises. A remake of the classic 1956 sci-fi flick about an alien invasion, here set in San Francisco. Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum. (115 mins)

Budd Boetticher (U.S., 1956). Bottle-bottom bespectacled “Foggy” Poole (Wendell Corey) is an unassuming bank clerk, turned to become the inside man on a heist, in Boetticher's tight and trim tale of noir terror, helped along by the presence of Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, and Alan Hale. (73 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964 ). New 35mm Print! A record of Pasolini's travels in Israel and Palestine in preparation for The Gospel According to St. Matthew. With Notes for a Film about India. (87 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1964). New 35mm Print! Pasolini interviews Italians from all walks of life on the subjects of love, prostitution, homosexuality, marriage, and the family. (90 mins)

Yuan Muzhi (China, 1937). (Malu Tianshi). Arguably the finest example of Shanghai's Golden Age, Street Angel is an intoxicating blend of Chinese leftist populism, Hollywood pizzazz, song numbers, French poetic-realist doom, comedic slapstick, and city symphony. (94 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1967). New 35mm Print! A dreamlike evocation of the Oedipus myth, filmed in Moroccan landscapes and set to music as disparate as Romanian folk tunes and Japanese pieces. (104 mins)