Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1976). Student Pick! Fassbinder out-Buñuels the master in this camp satire on the haute bourgeoisie starring Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen. "The humor fits the cruelty like a boot fits a groin" (Time Out). (86 mins)

Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Dorothy Malone star in Sirk's fever-dream of a melodrama about the emotional wreckage of an oil-rich family. “In Written on the Wind the good, the ‘normal,' the ‘beautiful' are always utterly revolting; the evil, the weak, the dissolute arouse one's compassion,” observed Fassbinder. (99 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). Fassbinder's legendary made-for-television science-fiction epic. An evil cybernetics company creates another version of our world; one investigator soon wonders, though, which world is real? This existential head-trip anticipated The Matrix, Blade Runner, and Inception. (204 mins plus intermission)

Agnès Varda (France/U.S., 1958–68). Restored Prints! Agnès Varda in person. In the late 1960s Varda visited and lived in the Bay Area for a time; two of her films, the Sausalito houseboat-set Uncle Yanco and Black Panthers, filmed in the Oakland streets, capture the era. The Paris-set L'opéra-Mouffe also screens. (69 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 2000). Agnès Varda and Linda Williams in conversation. Varda's rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, and finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching…a mind-bending experience not to be missed” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader). (82 mins)

Peter Hutton (U.S., 1990–97). Introduced by Federico Windhausen. Hutton's meditative, silent portraits of place “offer lessons in the art of seeing and fashioning images that make you wonder how anyone could produce something simultaneously so humble and so astounding." (Tom Gunning). (61 mins)

John Hanson, Rob Nilsson (U.S., 1978). West Coast Premiere of Restored 35mm Print! Introduced by Rob Nilsson. Actress Susan Lynch in person. A prequel of sorts to The Grapes of Wrath, Northern Lights is a stunning, gritty re-creation of Midwestern agrarian life circa 1915, backlit by the rise of the Nonpartisan League, a short-lived grassroots political movement. (93 mins)

Wu Yonggang (China, 1934). Imported Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Ruan Lingyu delivers one of her most luminous performances as a mother forced into prostitution in this classic of the Golden Age of Shanghai cinema. Could make even jaded denizens of pre-Code Hollywood blush. (82 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1954). New 35mm print! Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda's 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.” (90 mins)

Cai Chusheng (China, 1935). Imported Print! A strong-willed teacher and writer (Ruan Lingyu) is driven to despair by gossip and lecherous men in this intriguing, hard-hitting melodrama given further power by Ruan's own post-filming suicide. (104 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1976). "Fassbinder doesn't make 'comedies' . . . he makes ironies, and he's never been more brilliantly ironic than in this examination of a sadistic anti-hero," played by Kurt Raab (Soho Weekly News). (113 mins)

Susana de Sousa Dias (Portugal, 2009). Susana de Sousa Dias and Nuno Lisboa in conversation. De Sousa Dias's remarkable, hypnotic film is composed of photographs taken upon the arrest of political prisoners during the forty-eight years of the Portuguese dictatorial regime. (93 mins)

Susana de Sousa Dias (Portugal, 2009). Susana de Sousa Dias and Nuno Lisboa in conversation. De Sousa Dias's remarkable, hypnotic film is composed of photographs taken upon the arrest of political prisoners during the forty-eight years of the Portuguese dictatorial regime. (93 mins)

Salomé Lamas (Portugal, 2012). (Terra de ninguém). Introduced by Nuno Lisboa. A former mercenary in Mozambique, Spain, and El Salvador sits in an abandoned building, and tells the story of his life. “That you don't need more than one riveting talking head and a little intelligence to make a terrific docu is amply demonstrated by No Man's Land” (Variety). With Andreia Sobreira's short 1971–74. (110 mins)

Robert Bresson (France, 1959). A Parisian thief's anguish and redemption are played out in Bresson's austere yet compassionate reworking of Crime and Punishment. “It is one of those consummate works of art which in one flash pales everything you have ever seen . . . an unmitigated masterpiece” (Paul Schrader). (75 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1974). Fassbinder is the star of this powerful psychodrama in the guise of a fable, in which a good-natured prole wins the lottery and is skillfully, ruthlessly exploited by his wealthy boyfriend. A great example of the director's vision of "love as the most insidious instrument of repression." (123 mins)

Miguel Gomes (Portugal, 2012). Introduced by Natalia Brizuela. This mysterious work shifts from modern-day Lisbon to a Portuguese colony in Africa in the 1960s, from life lived to life remembered. “One of the most original and inventive-as well as trenchantly political and painfully romantic-movies of recent years” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker). (118 mins)

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata (Portugal/France, 2012). (A última vez que vi Macau). João Pedro Rodrigues and Johnny Ray Huston in conversation. Guerra da Mata and Rodrigues refer to their genre-shifting tribute to both multicultural Macao and von Sternberg's Macao as “an investigation disguised as a film noir.” “The Last Time is a movie to both get lost and to delight in” (Slant). (85 mins)

Manuel Mozos (Portugal, 2009). (Ruínas). U.S. Premiere! Mozos's fugue film captures the decaying beauty of the Portuguese landscape, as seen in contemplative long takes of ruined buildings and voiceover narration of documents from different eras. Awarded best Portuguese film at IndieLisboa, 2009. (60 mins)

Susana de Sousa Dias (Portugal, 2005). (Natureza morta). Susana de Sousa Dias, João Pedro Rodrigues, and Nuno Lisboa in conversation. In her poetic first film, de Sousa Dias delves into a fascinating array of archival images from the period of the Salazar dictatorship. With Rodrigues's new short The King's Body. (102 mins)

Lynne Sachs (U.S., 2013). Lynne Sachs in person. Introduced by Jeanne C. Finley. Sachs's hybrid documentary, combining autobiographical monologues with verité conversations, captures the personal and political stories of seven Chinese immigrants who share cramped apartments and even beds in Manhattan's Chinatown. In conjunction with the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. (64 mins)

Two-time Academy Award recipient Randy Thom speaks on the art of sound design, and his own working experiences on films like Apocalypse Now, The Empire Strikes Back, The Right Stuff, and The Incredibles. Followed by David Lynch's crazed neo-noir, Wild at Heart. (127 mins, plus presentation)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1962). Godard's fragmentary portrait of a prostitute makes Anna Karina an object of endless visual fascination, and inspired Fassbinder to cast Karina in Chinese Roulette. “A film of extraordinary purity. ” (Manny Farber). (85 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1961). Digital Restoration! Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours in the life of a pop singer. A classic work of the French New Wave. (90 mins)

Dennis Hopper (U.S., 1988). Introduced by sound designer Randy Thom. East and South Central L.A. supply the streets on fire in Dennis Hopper's gritty police procedural teaming veteran cop Bob Hodges (Robert Duvall) with brash rookie Danny McGavin (Sean Penn). (120 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1981). An upright building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl) falls in love with a corrupt cabaret singer (Barbara Sukowa) in this very loose remake of The Blue Angel. “One of Fassbinder's warmest, with a close, affectionate direction of actors unlike anything he'd ever attempted” (Dave Kehr). (113 mins) 

Brad Bird (U.S., 2004). Recommended for ages 7 and up. Introduced by sound designer Randy Thom. Meet the Incredibles, just a normal suburban family except for one thing: they're all superheroes. This joyous Pixar pic won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. (115 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1982). "Like most of Fassbinder's best films, this is about a loser: a fading movie star of the 1940s who finds the 1950s bearable only with the help of morphine. Shot in gleaming B&W . . . reminding us, long after Melville and his whale, that white can be as terrifying as black" (NY Film Festival). (104 mins)

Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong, 1992). Imported Print! Maggie Cheung stars in Stanley Kwan's modernist version of the biopic, chronicling the life and tragic early death of the Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu. “A masterpiece . . . the greatest Hong Kong film I've seen” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). (124 mins)

Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong, 2000). Imported Print! Acknowledged as the most acclaimed film of the twenty-first century, Wong Kar-wai's romantic masterpiece ostensibly tracks the relationship between two neighbors (Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai) in early 1960s Hong Kong. “Has a strong claim to being the best-looking film you'll ever see”(Empire). (98 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1975). A factory worker goes postal, making his widow one old and very confused poster girl for the Left. A brittle Brechtian parable of political exploitation that had the distinction of being banned from the Berlin Film Festival. Can't take a joke, or even a tragedy. (115 mins)