Edward Cline (U.S., 1941) Family Fun! In this classic, W.C. Fields plays himself, searching for a chance to promote a surreal screenplay he has written. This zany collection of song, slapstick, and thumbnail sketches will make you “laugh your head off” (NY Times). (70 mins)

Les Blank with Skip Gerson (U.S., 1971). Les Blank in person. Discover the distinct musical styles and authentic modes of living of three musical greats: Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb in A Well Spent Life; Dizzy Gillespie; and bluegrass fiddler Tommy Jarrell in Sprout Wings and Fly. (96 mins)

Lewis Milestone (U.S., 1930). 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)

Alexei Guerman (U.S.S.R., 1976). A writer/soldier is given a brief leave from the front in Guerman's most tender film, written by Soviet war poet Konstantin Simonov. Having survived the Battle of Stalingrad, Lopatin (Yuri Nikulin) returns to Tashkent, and bears silent witness to his fellow travelers' sorrows and desires. (100 mins)

Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1948). An epigraph from Rossellini calls this two-part film “an homage to the art of Anna Magnani.” Based on a Cocteau play, part one focuses on the voice-and face-of a desolate Magnani, while in part two a coarse, funny Magnani plays a goatherd impregnated by a stranger (Federico Fellini!). (78 mins)

Alan J. Pakula (U.S., 1971). Jane Fonda gives an Oscar-winning performance as a high-class call girl helping dogged detective Klute (Donald Sutherland) on a missing-person case. One of a series of Fonda's films that “hinge on the contradictions of autonomy and emotional commitment facing would-be independent women. . . . A genuinely psychological thriller” (Time Out). (114 mins)

Luigi Comencini (Italy, 1953). Imported Print! Gina Lollobrigida gives a comedic, tongue-in-cheek performance as the village gamine in this rollicking Italian comedy; her rags can't quite cover her almost animal “femininity.” Lollobrigida was the quintessential maggiorata: bread, love, and dream all rolled into one. (93 mins)

Felix Feist (U.S., 1953). Free outdoor screening on Center Street! DJ Citizen Zain, sound artist Binta Ayofemi, and short films accompanied by the live sounds of Shudder get us in the mood for Donovan's Brain, where the jarred brain of a megalomaniacal tycoon gets a crazed surgeon to do its evil bidding. (83 mins, plus pre-movie mania)

Raj Kapoor (India, 1973). New 35mm print! Raj Kapoor hit the seventies swinging with this candy-colored tribute to the bell-bottomed new generation, which became one of India's biggest hits and launched not only the careers of his baby-faced son, Rishi, and the lovely Dimple Kapadia as two star-crossed young lovers, but also an entirely new genre of teen-focused films. (168 mins)