Robert Mulligan (U.S., 1962) New Print! Student Pick! Introduced by Michael Butler. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of a committed small-town lawyer with two small children defending an African American man against a rape charge. Based on the classic story by Harper Lee. (125 mins)

Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2002–06). Nathaniel Dorsky in person. Dorsky's films continually reawaken us to the poetry of visuals, as can be seen in Song and Solitude, Threnody, and The Visitation. (64 mins)

King Vidor (U.S., 1946) Restored Print! Starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones as a passionate young "half-breed," this audacious Technicolor spectacular-famously dubbed "Lust in the Dust"-passes through the ridiculous into the sublime. (144 mins)

George A. White (U.S., 1957). Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer comes to life in this spicy, violent sewer crawl through a well-worn L.A. of strip joints, oil derricks, and cold-water walk-ups. (88 mins)

Roy Rowland (U.K., 1963). In this British rarity, Mickey Spillane stars as his own creation: hard-boiled private dick Mike Hammer, busy battling a commie spy ring who's abducted his trusted secretary, Velda. (103 mins)

Stanley Donen (U.S., 1966). Stanley Donen's follow-up to Charade replaces that film's Cary Grant-and-Audrey Hepburn pairing with an even more glamorous pair-Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, as a hieroglyphics expert and the femme fatale he's involved with-all while amping up the globe-trotting intrigue, Dior fashions, and big-budget spectacle. A midsixties Pop Art spectacle. (105 mins)

Jaromil Jires (Czechoslovakia, 1969). A 1970s cult classic about a girl's initiation into the world of desire. "The film's logic is that of the subconscious, its images those of Gothic fairy tale and the psychiatrist's couch, and its overall effect stunning" (Time Out). (75 mins)

Burt Reynolds (U.S., 1985). Elmore Leonard adapted his own novel to the screen for this Burt Reynolds vehicle about an ex-con looking for a new start-but instead finding scorpions, a kidnap plot, Santeria, and the beautiful Candice Bergen-in his hometown of Miami. (109 mins)

Edwin Sherin (U.S., 1971). Burt Lancaster stars as a Mexican-American sheriff in a border town looking for justice and a hundred bucks in this tough adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. (90 mins)