Billy Wilder (US, 1950). 4K Digital Restoration. Fledgling screenwriter William Holden stumbles into the mansion of faded silent-film superstar Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder's poison pen to Hollywood, its dreamers, its failures, and its allure. Winner of three Academy Awards. (115 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 2010). A cruise ship traversing the Mediterranean launches Godard's majestic inquiry into the state of European civilization, whether embodied in film and television, the family, or such classical realms as Egypt, Greece, Palestine, and Naples. (101 mins)

Stanwyck's toxic peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder's gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, costarring Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson.

Ibrahim El Batout (Egypt, 2012). (El sheita elli fat). Egyptian independent filmmaker Ibrahim El Batout returns to the first wave of anti-Mubarak Tahrir Square protests with intertwined stories of a political dissident (Amr Waked), a TV journalist, and a state policeman. (95 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1944). Stanwyck's toxic peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder's gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, costarring Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson. (106 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1993). (Oh, Woe Is Me). Hélas imagines a god who, wanting to feel human desire, chooses to possess the body of a filmmaker (of course). Gérard Depardieu stars in this late Godard, “elegantly layered, rhythmically complex, and willfully impenetrable” (Village Voice). (90 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1955). Buttoned-down middle-aged adman Tom Ewell is ready for some extramarital fun in his seventh year of marriage, and new upstairs tenant Marilyn Monroe provides the perfect mirage for his dreams in Wilder's caustic comedy. Monroe's billowing skirt above a subway grate provides one of American cinema's most iconic images. (105 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (USSR, 1958–64). Imported Prints! A rare chance to see the early films by one of the great Georgian filmmakers, Otar Iosseliani. Titles include Akvareli, Song About a Flower, April, and Cast Iron. (93 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1991). Godard and actor Eddie Constantine revisit their legendary creation Lemmy Caution, the private eye from Alphaville, in this vision of East Berlin, East Germany, and the solitude of a state. With short, Pour Thomas Wainggai (1991). (69 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1951). Kirk Douglas stars as a cynical newspaperman covering the story of a man trapped in a remote New Mexico cave; here, the story isn't the truth, but the lies and rot within journalism itself. "Here is, half a century out of the past, a movie so acidly au courant it stings” (Village Voice). (111 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (USSR, 1967). A young boy gets his first job (in a wine factory!), and soon observes that corruption is the best way to get by. Falling Leaves is typical of the best Georgian films in seeming light and low-key at first, until the satire begins to cut very deep. (80 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (USSR, 1971). Iosseliani's wry comedy, set in Tbilisi, follows a young musician who is perpetually in a hurry and late for every appointment because his life is so full of chance encounters. A genial, uplifting song to all those who choose life and love over lesser things, like work. (80 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1954). Audrey Hepburn is the simple daughter of a family chauffeur who is transformed into a delectable sophisticate, and must choose between ne'er do well playboy William Holden and sober workaholic Humphrey Bogart, in Wilder's classic romance. One of Audrey's most iconic roles. (113 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 2001). Lecture by James Roy MacBean follows screening. Godard's investigation of memory, loss, Hollywood, and the Holocaust was considered one of the director's most accessible, intriguing works from his later period. "This film is a pinnacle in a career marked by many Everests” (Piers Handling). (97 mins)

Robert Flaherty (US, 1922). Flaherty's saga of Inuit life remains one of the most beautiful films ever made. Directing a group of Inuit to enact their daily activities for his camera, he paved the way for the development of the film documentary. (85 mins)

(Cameroon/Kenya/Tunisia, 2013–14). A program highlighting emerging artists focuses on short narratives by women. Films include Beleh, Eka Christa Assam's quirky look at gender roles; Soko Sonko, a hair braiding adventure by Ekwa Msangi-Omari; and Kaouther Ben Hania's story of a young girl who goes to great lengths to avoid school, Wooden Hands. (75 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (USSR, 1975). In this exquisite film by Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, a string quartet's visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is (Georgia's) greatest director” (Tom Luddy). (94 mins)

Judy Kibinge (Kenya/Germany, 2013). A woman whose world has been destroyed in Kenya's 2007 civil unrest attempts to rebuild her life, yet repeatedly crosses paths with a man who participated in the violence, in Judy Kibinge's moving, beautifully filmed narrative. (85 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1945). A failed writer (Ray Milland) turns to alcohol over one long, lost weekend in Wilder's powerful tale of the wrong, trembling end of the American dream. Jane Wyman costars. Winner of four Academy Awards. (101 mins)

Lana Gogoberidze (USSR, 1977). Imported Print! Lana Gogoberidze in person. A bold mixture of documentary and social-psychological drama-and the first film to make mention of Stalin's camps-Some Interviews on Personal Matters makes powerful statements about women, work, family, and marriage that earned it international acclaim as the first feminist film of Soviet cinema. (95 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1988–98). Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays. “Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies” (David Sterritt). Continues on Sunday / 2.1.15. (148 mins)