Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1961). “A whimsical celebration of romance, sentiment, musical comedy, color film, the city of Paris and the abundant charms of Anna Karina” (NY Times). (85 mins)

George Cukor (U.S., 1949). Adam's Rib isn't just a battle of the sexes, it's a full-blown military campaign. In their sixth film together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play married attorneys, arguing on opposite sides of a trial. (101 mins)

Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie (France/Belgium, 2012). Recommended for ages 7 & up. The supervising animator behind The Triplets of Belleville brings viewers this family-friendly animated tale that moves from Africa to Europe, following a ten-year-old boy and his best friend, the first giraffe to ever set foot in France. “A pure wonder!” (FigaroScope). (78 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1960). 35mm Restored Print! Introduced by Dilip Basu. A teenage Sharmile Tagore delivers one of her most riveting performances in Ray's tale of faith and obsession, set in rural Bengal circa 1860. A wealthy landowner offers his beautiful daughter-in-law as an incarnation of the goddess Kali. (93 mins)

Damien Ounouri (France/Algeria/China/Germany/Kuwait, 2012). Jia Zhang-ke's Xstream Pictures served as coproducer of this elegiac portrait of a seemingly ordinary grandfather, who in reality was a freedom fighter during the Algerian War of Independence against France. “A striking advance in Arabic documentary filmmaking” (Variety). (83 mins)

Fritz Lang (Germany, 1931). Digital Restoration! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. A precursor to American film noir, Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where it is difficult to distinguish morally between the activities of organized crime and law enforcement. With Peter Lorre. (99 mins)

Alain Gomis (Senegal, 2012). American musician/slam poet Saul Williams stars in this dreamlike fable of one man's last day on earth, as prescribed by fate. Part Senegalese fairy tale, part existential Sartre play, Tey is “spiritual, soulful and captivating” (Hollywood Reporter). (89 mins)

Frank Tashlin (U.S., 1957). Pop culture goes !POP! in Tashlin's puncture-proof provocation of media-driven consumerism. The Stay-Put Lipstick account needs a new set of lips to lay on and TV ad exec Rockwell Hunter (Tony Randall) knows just the proper pucker, Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield). (95 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1946). Archival Print! The scientific method meets the delirium of dreams in this oddball outing from Anthony Mann, who may have invented a new genre: the mad-scientist noir romantic melodrama. (68 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1947). A newlywed Everycouple flees the mob and the law in the first and least known of Mann's celebrated film noir cycle. (73 mins)

(U.S., 2012–13). Student filmmakers and curators in person. Come experience the creativity of some of today's most inspiring teenagers! The 16th annual Screenagers Film Festival showcases a diverse selection of films made entirely by Bay Area high schoolers. (c. 90 mins)

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)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1963). This antiwar allegory, told from the viewpoint of those who fight, is one of Godard's most Brechtian antinarratives, filmed objectively and dispassionately to paradoxically amplify the futility and absurdity of war. Script by Roberto Rossellini. (80 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1963). 35mm Restored Print! In honor of the centenary of the writer Rabindranath Tagore's birth, Ray made this feature based on three Tagore stories. (171 mins)

Eyal Sivan (Israel/France/Germany, 1999). Inspired by Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Specialist is composed entirely from archival footage from the 1961 Israeli trial of the Nazi SS lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann. “An amazing document. Succeeds on quiet, frightening terms” (New York Times). Preceded by Deborah Stratman's Village, Silenced. (135 mins)

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly (U.S., 1952). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound. (102 mins)

Three award-winning portraits of African life, both on the continent and in the U.S.: Frances Bodomo's Boneshaker (starring Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis), Akosua Adoma Owusu's spellbinding Kwaku Ananse, and Bentley Brown's Faisal Goes West. (72 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1948). Introduced by Max Alvarez. Archival Print! Two U.S. Treasury Agents go underground to shut down a funny-money ring in this documentary-style noir, shot by the great John Alton. (92 mins)

Howard Hawks (U.S., 1953). Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are two gold diggers from Little Rock who prove that big shiny rocks are a girl's best friend in Hawks's brash, satiric take on the musical genre. Seriously saucy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes augured the end of screwball and the opening of the cleavage comedy. (91 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1948). Introduced by Max Alvarez. Archival Print! A convict breaks out of jail in search of vengeance-but a demented thug (Raymond Burr) has other ideas. In another stylish, shadowy Mann/Alton collaboration from the 1940s, "the violence, both physical and emotional, is still shocking” (Chicago Reader). (78 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1963). 35mm Restored Print! Ray sets his ironic and humorous eye on the plight of the Bengali middle class, caught amid the changing moralities of urban life. Focusing in particular on the role of women in this metamorphosis, Ray tells a story that is both minutely particular to Calcutta and universally recognizable. (135 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). New Digital Restoration! Godard's Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance. (103 mins)

(Tony Buba, U.S., 1972–85). Tony Buba and Rick Ayers in conversation. This compilation brings together several of Buba's remarkable shorts, all focused on life in and around his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania. “These quietly attentive and politically engaged shorts suggest (Buba) as something like his hometown's Harvey Pekar or Studs Terkel.” (Village Voice). (85 mins)

Orson Welles (U.S., 1941). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. A childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles's audacious debut, which still tops many critics' lists of the best films of all time. “Inventing modern cinema is a tough act to follow,” Welles remarked later in his career. (119 mins)

Tony Buba (U.S., 1988). Tony Buba and Rick Ayers in conversation. New Print! Buba's first feature film is the tale of a documentary filmmaker hounded by a celebrity-hungry former subject when the filmmaker is offered a Hollywood gig. “For all its structural playfulness, a more honest and incisive film about…late eighties capitalism would be hard to find” (SFIFF). Preceded by shorts Stigmata and the trailer for Thunder Over Braddock. (84 mins)

Tony Buba, Tom Dubesnky (U.S., 2013). Tony Buba in person. When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force; Buba captures the struggle in vivid detail. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism. Preceded by short, Voices From a Steeltown-“personal, warm, yet elegiac” (Jump Cut). (95 mins)

Alfred Werker, Anthony Mann (U.S., 1949). Richard Basehart stars as an icy criminal on the run after waxing a cop in Mann's documentary-style noir, a huge influence on the show Dragnet. "A gritty masterpiece!" (Errol Morris). (79 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1949). Mann and cinematographer John Alton work the border between Western and noir in this incredibly tense tale of immigration agents and human smuggling, starring Ricardo Montalbán. (92 mins)

Billy Wilder (U.S., 1959). Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon star in Wilder's outrageous cross-dressing comedy, selected by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie ever made. (120 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). Student Pick! Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Godard's “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael). (97 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1962). 35mm Restored Print! The great Bollywood superstar Waheeda Rehman stars in one of Ray's most atypical films, a commercially successful noir melodrama filled with taxi drivers, drug smugglers, and prostitutes that became the director's most popular film in his native Bengal. (150 mins)

A glimpse of Godard in the process of becoming “Godard.” This program of Godard's first shorts includes Opération béton, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Une histoire d'eau, and Charlotte et son Jules. (89 mins)

Sylvain George (France, 2010). Filmed over three years, “a fiercely unsettling mood and vivid handmade cinema girds” (Variety) this portrait of undocumented immigrants from Northern Africa and the Middle East, now living in makeshift homes in the northern French port town of Calais. (154 mins)

Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in Douglas Sirk's wonderful, melancholy melodrama that "demolishes the social fantasy of the 'happy home'” (Time Out). (84 mins)

David Tosh Gitonga (Kenya, 2012). An aspiring young actor from the Kenyan backwaters heads to Nairobi to make it big, but soon discovers why the city is nicknamed “Nairobbery.” Created through Tom Twyker's production initiative, this “affecting, funny narrative” (Variety) is Kenya's first-ever Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. (96 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1961). Two essential Ray documentaries on his greatest influences: Rabindranath Tagore, on the Nobel Prize–winning poet and painter, and Sukumar Ray, on the director's father, a writer and critic. (84 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1950). In this downbeat drama with Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, the narrator declares, “This is the story of Joe Norson. No hero, no criminal-just human like all of us.” Human, yes, but dwelling amidst the cold concrete of NYC. (82 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). A married woman splits her time between her aviator hubby and a preening actor in one of Godard's first film-essays, a study of “woman reduced to object by the pressures of modern life, incapable of being herself" (Godard). (94 mins)