Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1954). (Uwasa no onna). Imported Print! Kinuyo Tanaka stars as the madam of a brothel who finds herself competing with her own daughter for the affections of a young doctor. “Has the feeling of late Ford or Buñuel, of a director who has arrived at the most subtly exquisite, minimalist ways of expressing his deepest, most complex sentiments” (Andrew Sarris). (83 mins)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1991). New Digital Restoration! Jarman's bold version of Christopher Marlowe's four-hundred-year-old play streamlines the plot to the doomed King Edward II and his beloved Piers Gaveston, enthralled in an obsessive love affair condemned by nobles and church, and his despairing queen, Isabella (Tilda Swinton). (90 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1974). (Sonar Kella). Recommended for ages 8 & up. Introduced by Tipu Purkayastha. A child who suffers from flashbacks to an ancient time journeys to Rajasthan in search of a fortress of gold and aided by the master detective Feluda! Ray's little-seen yet unforgettable combination of children's adventure tales and detective fiction is the master at his most entertaining, pulpiest best. With short, Two. (126 mins)

Charles Chaplin (U.S., 1918). Lecture by Russell Merritt. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Released just a few weeks before the Armistice, Shoulder Arms is a Tramp's-eye view of World War I. With shorts The Sinking of the Lusitania and Great Guns. (95 mins including lecture)

D.W. Griffith (U.K./U.S., 1918) 35mm Archival Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Griffith's war spectacular, an epic family melodrama with war front footage (real and faked), historic tableaux, and lurid war atrocities. Lillian Gish and Robert Harron star as two American expatriates who fall in love just as Germans invade France and bombard their village. (133 mins)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1990). BAM/ PFA Collection Print! Jarman the gardener is a dreamer . . . His starting points are his own failing body, his home, and his garden. From these, his inner self conjures the dreams that fill the film. “The Garden is as mystifying as it is intense” (Janet Maslin). (92 mins)

Wes Anderson (U.S., 2001). Anderson's nostalgic look at a family of very bored Tenenbaums-played by Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Anjelica Huston, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray, and cowriter Owen Wilson-is arguably the crowning achievement of the “Wes Anderson” style. (109 mins)

Sally Cruikshank (U.S., 1971–96). New BAM/PFA Collection Prints! Sally Cruikshank & Russell Merritt in conversation. Cruikshank's love of surreal 1930s cartoons, as well as her desire to make her own amusement park, is evident in her wildly colorful and wonderfully detailed films, some of which were made for Sesame Street. (75 mins)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1993). New Digital Restoration! One of the few films to have a philosopher as its main character, Jarman's imaginative and irreverent portrait of Wittgenstein is “playful, witty, and moving (and) one of Jarman's most accessible works” (Vancouver Film Festival). (75 mins)

Jean Renoir (France, 1937). Jean Renoir's deeply humane portrait of World War I POWs, “one of the most haunting of all war films” (NY Times). Starring Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim. (117 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1977). (Joi Baba Felunath). 35mm Restored Print! Recommended for ages 8 & up. Introduced by Tipu Purkayastha. Ray's detective hero Feluda (The Golden Fortress) is back on the case, this time in the holy city of Benares! A wonder, both for Ray's take on pulp fiction and his images of the teeming byways of one of the world's most atmospheric and fascinating cities. (120 mins))

Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland, 1980) Digital Restoration! An idealistic young graduate in Communist Poland dreams of scaling the Himalayas, but must settle for barely clearing the hurdles of everyday life, in Zanussi's searing condemnation of a world of utter conformity. (91 mins)

Author/illustrator Lea Lyon and author Teri Sloat in person. Today's compilation contemplates the wonders and reveries that only idle time can evoke, with stories based on Ezra Jack Keats, Pete Seeger, William Steig, Rosemary Wells, and others. (57 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1977). (Shatranj Ke Khilari). 35mm Restored Print! Two oblivious landowners in nineteenth-century India take refuge in games of chess while the world around them changes course in Ray's first historical film, shot in a gorgeously rich Technicolor. “Every gesture, every detail…is intended to delight your eye”(The Nation). (120 mins)

Gregory La Cava (U.S., 1933). Lecture by Russell Merritt. A newly elected U.S. President decides the best way to solve the country's problems is by seizing all power, in one of the most shocking and curious films that Hollywood ever made during the Great Depression-or ever. (87 mins plus lecture)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1955). (Shin heike monogatari). Imported Print! In twelfth-century Kyoto, during a power struggle between the landed gentry and the monastic forces, a young man of the military class seizes power and changes the course of Japanese history. Cult actor Raizo Ichikawa stars in this, one of Mizoguchi's most Shakespearean tales. (108 mins)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland, 1987) Digital Restoration! This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters whose paths mysteriously cross: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi driver, and a young lawyer. (86 mins)

Christopher Guest (U.S., 2000). Guest's “dogumentary” on a dog-show competition is a breed all its own. Pet promoters played by Fred Willard, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy. (90 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1980). (Hirok Rajar Deshe). Goopy and Bagha are back in Ray's giddily inventive, colorful, and music-filled version of the children's film. Here, our heroes find themselves in a diamond-rich realm ruled by a tyrant who forces everyone to rhyme! (118 mins)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1979) New Digital Restoration! Brooding and darkly laden with heavily symbolic imagery, Jarman's terrific third feature is considered by many to be the most evocative Shakespeare adaptation ever to reach the screen. “Electrifying” (Film Journal). (95 mins)

Alexander Dovzhenko (USSR, 1929) BAM/PFA Collection Print! Introduced by Russell Merritt. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Dovzhenko's masterful film uses symbolic juxtaposition, metaphor, pantomime, and even fantasy to pay tribute to the Ukrainian workers and their struggles in Czarist Russia during and immediately after the First World War. (75 mins)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1954). (Sansho dayu). BAM/PFA Collection Print! Bring all your senses and your handkerchief to this haunting tale of a family (led by Kinuyo Tanaka) victimized by the cruel practices of feudal Japan, “developed with intuition, cunning, and an overarching sense of tragedy” (SF Weekly). (126 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1984). (Ghare Baire). Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel of 1905 Bengal provides the setting of Ray's examination of one woman's search for independence, and a nation's fight for freedom. (140 mins)

Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1981) Digital Restoration! Wajda's loose sequel to Man of Marble is an inventive feature shot during the very event it portrays, the 1980 Solidarity shipyard strike in Gdansk. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. (154 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (U.S., 1957). “Kubrick's first full-fledged masterpiece is a peerless insanity-of-war picture. . . . Kirk Douglas has never been better”(Time Out NY). (87 mins)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1955). (Yokihi). Imported Print! Part fairy tale, part ghost story, Princess Yang Kwei-fei relates the legend of an eighth-century Chinese emperor who falls in love with a servant girl (Machiko Kyo) and makes her his consort. “One of the most beautiful films ever to treat beauty as a subject” (Andrew Sarris). (98 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1988). (Sadgati). A village landowner exploits a member of the “untouchable” Dukhi class in Ray's icily clear interrogation of the Indian class system, “told with stark visuals and the power of a parable”(Film Society of Lincoln Center). The great Om Puri stars. With short, Pikoo. (78 mins)

Ben Stiller (U.S., 2001). Fashion's never looked so good in this tale of a vapid male model (Ben Stiller), his dashing rival (Owen Wilson), and an evil fashion czar (Will Ferrell), all locked together in a plot as ludicrous as Stiller's poses. (89 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1989). A beloved doctor discovers that the holy water from a local temple is the source of his community's illness, in this timeless tale of science versus religion adapted from an Ibsen play. (100 mins)

Judd Apatow (U.S., 2007). A dumpy stoner (Seth Rogen) accidentally knocks up a comely careerist (Katherine Heigl) in Apatow's classic boy-bleeps-girl story. (129 mins)

Lewis Milestone (U.S., 1930). New 35mm Print! Director Lewis Milestone won an Academy Award for this film, one of the boldest statements ever made about the cruelty and futility of war. Set in Europe during WWI, the plot follows the disillusionment of idealist young German soldiers as they confront the realities of the battlefield. (143 mins)

Ed Dein (U.S., 1955). Free outdoor screening! Who would have thought a burger joint could be a command center for commie spies? Lee Marvin stars in this deliriously trashy espionage flick that mixes short-order cooks, top-secret scientists, and over-the-top Cold War paranoia. Plus surprise short! (80 mins)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1993). One of the most intense and personal cinematic experiences ever made, a philosophical rumination on illness, death, life, and most of all, transcendence. With Andy Kipton Nye's short portrait, The Gospel According to St. Derek. (112 mins)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1956). (Akasen chitai). Mizoguchi's last film brought together some of Japan's greatest actresses-including Machiko Kyo and Ayako Wakao-to dramatize the struggles and dreams of five prostitutes in Tokyo's red-light district. “The best of all films examining the problems of women in postwar Japan” (Donald Richie). (86 mins)

Larry Charles (U.S., 2006). Cultural comic and chameleon Sacha Baron Cohen transforms himself into a curious, and curiously thonged, Kazakh journalist on tour through the stranger edges of America. Will he survive rodeos, beach culture, and more? (84 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1990). (Shakha Proshakha). Family ties turn to family binds in this tale of a dying patriarch and his four sons, none of whom are ready to forget their past. “Everything moves and breathes, everything has nuance and depth”(Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde). (130 mins)

Wes Anderson (U.S., 2004). Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is an oddball oceanographer assembling a ship-of-fools with long-lost son (Owen Wilson) and crew, along with the ever-mellifluous Seu Jorge, who punctuates the proceedings by singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese. (118 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1991). (Agantuk). Introduced by Dilip Basu. A comfortable Calcutta couple are visited by a seemingly long-lost uncle, who regales them with tales of his adventures until certain doubts emerge. Ray's last film is “an extraordinary summing up of so much of Ray's worldview” (Film Society of Lincoln Center). (120 mins)

Robin Hardy (U.K., 1973) Restored “Final Cut”! A police sergeant heads to a rustic British isle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, and finds far more than he bargains for, in this eerie and influential horror film. Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland costar. “The Citizen Kane of horror movies” (Cinefantastique Magazine). Plus free scratch-and-sniff cards! (94 mins)