Andy Warhol (US, 1965), Barbara Rubin (US, 1963). The first of two special programs exploring “expanded cinema.” Warhol combines experimental technology and multiscreen structure with traditional portrait sitting in Outer and Inner Space, while Rubin's hypnotic side-by-side projection Christmas on Earth depicts sexual tableaux vivants. (62 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1975). New 35mm Print! Capitalism and sex, played out almost entirely in images of images. The first masterpiece of Godard's post-Maoist period, uses video to suggest social isolation yet is simultaneously visually entrancing. (88 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1968). Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. (160 mins)

Tim Burton (US, 1985). Recommended for ages 7 & up. Tim Burton's first feature film follows the squeaky-mad Pee-wee Herman as he rides roughshod over eighties conformity in search of his stolen bike. “Revels in the weird, the unpredictable, the infantile, and the absurd” (Empire). (90 mins)

Ivan Perestiani (USSR, 1923). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Three daredevils volunteer as scouts in the Red Cavalry-and encounter famed anarchist Nestor Makhno-in Perestiani's entertaining silent film, which borrows from the American adventure styles of Douglas Fairbanks. (100 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1964). 4K Restoration! Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers (again) star in Kubrick's scathing satire on the nuclear age. Cold War camp, here brought to life in a luminous 4K restoration. (94 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1978). A journalist making a video about his newspaper's production process discusses the rough cut with his collaborator, in Godard's work of deconstruction, both of cinema and its processes. (78 mins)

Susan Oxtoby lectures on “Cinema and the Arts in Georgia,” followed by a screening of Pirosmani, a poetic biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili. This delicately expressive film received its North American premiere at BAM/PFA in 1974 and then went on to win the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival and garner international critical acclaim. Session two of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Student filmmakers in person. Introduced by student curators. Witness the future of cinema-today-in this year‘s student film festival, which brings together exciting new works from colleges throughout the Bay Area. Includes films from SFSU, SFAI, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, CCA, and UC Santa Cruz. (70 mins)

Jerry Stoll (US, 1967). Special guests cinematographer Stephen Lighthill, antiwar activist Michael Smith, environmental journalist Gar Smith. Stoll's formidable film tracks a two-day protest in which thousands of antiwar activists marched from the UC Berkeley campus to the Oakland Army Terminal. (98 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tseng Chuang-hsiang, Wan Jen (Taiwan, 1983). Considered the opening salvo of the New Taiwan Cinema, The Sandwich Man combined short films by three directors into a declaration of intent and a statement on a rapidly modernizing Taiwan. (100 mins)

Rob Reiner (US, 1984). Turn it up to eleven as tightly spandexed past-it rockers Spinal Tap reunite for a doomed US tour. One of the greatest comedies of all time, a “rare comedy that is as completely entertaining now as it was back then” (LA Times). (82 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1980). Hou Hsiao-hsien made an unlikely feature debut with this breezy romantic comedy starring Hong Kong singer Kenny Bee and Taiwanese pop diva Feng Fei-fei. Eighties fashion, Canto-pop-driven montages, and glimpses of a changing Taipei pepper this tale of mismatched lovers. (90 mins)

Ivan Perestiani (USSR, 1924). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Distinctive location shooting, inspired compositions, and beautiful use of natural light lend an atmospheric, almost documentary quality to this silent work set in late nineteenth-century Georgia. (150 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1971). The droogs are coming, and they fancy a bit of the old ultraviolence, in this highly influential punk-anarchic vision of the future, starring Malcolm McDowell as a jack-booted psychotic on the loose. Often quoted, never topped. (136 mins)

Ivan Perestiani (USSR, 1925). Imported Print! Lecture by Peter Rollberg. Judith Rosenberg on piano. This courtroom drama about social injustice combines an innovative use of flashbacks with elements of subtle satire and melodrama. A “masterwork of emotionally compelling narrative filmmaking”(Sergei Kapterev). (98 mins)

Peter Rollberg, professor of Slavic languages, film studies, and international affairs at George Washington University, lectures on “The Poetics of Georgian Cinema.” Followed by The Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1971), a wry comedy, set in Tbilisi, about a young musician who is perpetually in a hurry and late for every appointment because his life is so full of chance encounters. Session three of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Fulton Lewis III (US, 1960), Eugene Methvin (US, 1971). Special guest UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Christopher C. Kutz. Two right-wing propaganda documentaries that paint the antiwar movement a deep shade of red: Operation Abolition finds “professional communists” amid a 1960 San Francisco City Hall protest, while The Riotmakers claims “Leninoids” are behind all student activism. (70 mins)

Leslie Thornton (US, 1985–2013). Leslie Thornton and Pooja Rangan in conversation. Two eerie children inhabit an eerie world in Thornton's landmark series, which examines sexual differences and experiences on the edge. “One of the crowning achievements of the post-1980 avant-garde" (William C. Wees). (95 mins)

Leslie Thornton (US, 1983–2014). Leslie Thornton and Pooja Rangan in conversation. A selection of Thornton's short films and digital videos that explore how the West looks at the East; how we look at animals, nature, and each other; and how technology impacts these interactions. Films include Adynata, Binocular Menagerie, Philosophers Walk on the Sublime, and more. (75 mins)

Tengiz Abuladze, Revaz Chkeidze (USSR, 1955). Eisensteinian flair merges with an inventive Georgian musical score in this tale of a widow, her three children, and a donkey. Winner, Best Fiction Film, Cannes 1956. (67 mins)

Tengiz Abuladze (USSR, 1967). Poetry and song combine in this black-and-white work, based on two epic poems by Georgian writer Vaza Psavela. “Magisterially shot” (National Film Theatre of London). (80 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1975). Kubrick's blithely ribald tale of a young Irishman longing to become an English aristocrat recounts, with candle-lit wit, his well-earned comeuppance. (184 mins)

Introduced by Nino Dzandzava. Judith Rosenberg on piano. This special program showcases recent efforts to digitally restore examples of the kulturfilm boom of the late 1920s and early 1930s, films made by young cinephile directors in Soviet Georgia. A fascinating sampling of silent cinema from Georgia. (104 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1982). Hong Kong crooner Kenny Bee is an idealistic big-city teacher assigned to a remote rural village in Hou's gentle look at country life. (91 mins)

Nino Dzandzava, of National Archives of Georgia, discusses challenges facing film archivists before a screening of The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1977). The Wishing Tree is an episodic pastorale set in a pre-Revolutionary Georgian village that spans four seasons in the lives of various village characters. Some twenty-two stories are woven into the narrative, which centers on a beautiful young woman who is forced to marry a man she does not love. Session four of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1981). Hong Kong singer Kenny Bee and Taiwanese pop diva Feng Fei-fei return for Hou's extremely rare second film, which follows the unlikely romance between a blind man and a photographer across Taiwan's most scenic locales. (81 mins)

Jerome Hiler (US, 2012). Jerome Hiler in person. Two beautiful pieces by the San Francisco filmmaker: In the Stone House, which records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey, and New Shores, which affords glimpses of life led over three decades in San Francisco. (70 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland, 1979). An achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self, Every Man for Himself follows a businessman's encounter with three prostitutes in a nameless Swiss city. With Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye. (87 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1980). Kubrick reinvents horror as a new kind of screwball comedy as Jack Nicholson terrorizes Shelley Duvall at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don't see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese). (144 mins)

Nikoloz Shengelaia (USSR, 1928). Live Music by Trio Kavkasia. One of Russian and Georgian cinema's greatest silent-film achievements, this historical epic evokes the tragic fate of a nation pacified in 1864 by the Tsarist Russian Empire. Features beautiful portrayals of Caucasus customs and celebrations. Special admission prices apply. (80 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1987). The madness of the Vietnam War, as seen through Kubrick's disorienting vision. “May be the best war movie ever made” (Toronto Globe and Mail). “As embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut” (Newsweek). (116 mins)

Nikoloz Shengelaia (USSR, 1928). Live Music by Trio Kavkasia. One of Russian and Georgian cinema's greatest silent-film achievements, this historical epic evokes the tragic fate of a nation pacified in 1864 by the Tsarist Russian Empire. Features beautiful portrayals of Caucasus customs and celebrations. Special admission prices apply. (80 mins)

Veronica Selver, Sharon Wood (US, 2000). Veronica Selver, Sharon Wood in person. Special guests KPFA alums Alan Snitow and Larry Bensky, Pacifica historian Matthew Lasar. A history of KPFA and radical radio in the US. Preceded by Norman Yonemoto and Nicholas Ursin's Second Campaign, shot during the People's Park protests. (76 mins)

For our final meeting, the Trio Kavkasia (Carl Linich, Alan Gasser, Stuart Gelzer) offers a demonstration of Georgian polyphonic music and Carl Linich will speak about characteristics of traditional folk songs. Susan Oxtoby wraps up the course with a talk illustrated with film clips. Session five of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1983). A trio of bored teenagers finds trouble and women from the small island of Fengkuei to the bustling southern port of Kaohsiung in Hou's fourth film. “A triumph of the hauntingly ordinary” (Village Voice). (99 mins)

(US, 1964–91). Our second program devoted to “expanded cinema” includes selection of rarely screened double projection films, as well some experimental approaches to single projection. Films by Storm De Hirsch, Morgan Fisher, Takahiko Iimura, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits, and Bud Wirtschafter. (65 mins)

Art Napoleon (US, 1969). Michael Smith in person. Activist-turned-actor Michael Smith, a member of the Oakland Seven, plays a radical opposed to the war in Vietnam in this youth-market entry, shot on the streets of Berkeley. (87 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1999). Special Halloween Screening: Wear a Mask! A married couple (real-life duo Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune). (159 mins)