Charles T. Barton (U.S., 1948) Family Fun! The title undersells it: Abbot and Costello don't simply meet Frankenstein's monster, but the whole stable of the Universal horror canon, including Dracula and the Wolf Man. Perhaps the best-reviewed title in Abbott and Costello's long career, the beloved evergreen remains a landmark genre mashup. (83 mins)

Les Blank (U.S., 1980) Les Blank in person. Les Blank's paean to the history of the stinking rose features a host of garlic lovers who praise its culinary as well as healing attributes. Preceded by two other culinary creations, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (archival print!) and Spend It All. (118 mins)

Michael Gordon (U.S., 1959). A colossal critical and box-office success, the sophisticated bedroom farce Pillow Talk pairs Rock Hudson and Doris Day as two singletons sharing a party line. The film garnered Day her only Oscar nomination, established her as a fashion icon, and became her most identifiable role. (110 mins)

Les Blank with Maureen Gosling (U.S., 1982). Archival Print! Maureen Gosling in person. One of the more unusual films about filmmaking, Burden of Dreams documents Werner Herzog's obsessive four-year struggle to complete his 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo. Named by Derek Malcolm (The Guardian) as one of the best one hundred films of the twentieth century. (94 mins)

Ettore Scola (Italy/Spain, 1970) Imported Print! Monica Vitti turns her Antonioni-honed angst to parodic purposes in this antic avant-farce. Vitti plays one point of an irregular triangle with feckless leftist bricklayer Marcello Mastroianni and sullen pizza maker Giancarlo Giannini in this satire and celebration of narrative excess. (107 mins)

Clint Eastwood (U.S., 1973). A mysterious stranger wreaks havoc on a small Western town, but it is unclear whether he is a flesh-and-blood human being or a ghost. As Eastwood remarked on the film, “There is always retribution for your deeds.” (105 mins)

Yuzo Kawashima (Japan, 1956). A down-on-their-luck young couple settle on the edge of the red-light district in this major rediscovery of the Nikkatsu series, a “radiant masterwork of Japanese cinematic melodramas” (Tokyo Filmex) compared to Naruse and Mizoguchi. (81 mins)

Takashi Nomura (Japan, 1967) New 35mm print! One man, one plan, and a thousand bullets: a swaggering Jo Shishido takes on the mob with effortless cool in this tough-as-nails noir, fueled by American crime thrillers, French existentialism, and Italian spaghetti westerns. “An existentially poetic actioner worthy of Howard Hawks or Sergio Leone” (Sydney Film Festival). (84 mins)