Max Ophuls (France/Italy, 1953). Following a pair of earrings, Ophuls's fluid camerawork tracks the course of love and the character of a class. "Perfection” (Pauline Kael). With Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica. (105 mins)

Alile Sharon Larkin (U.S., 1979) New Print! Larkin's film, about a single mother eking out a living from welfare check to welfare check, masterfully presents a child's perspective on wealth and social inequality. With other shorts that explore family relationships: Rich (S. Torriano Berry), Shipley Street (Jacqueline Frazier), and Fragrance (Gay Abel-Bey). (115 mins)

Paz Encina (Paraguay, 2006). Paz Encina in person. Introduced by Natalia Brizuela. In rural Paraguay circa 1935, an elderly husband and wife wait for their son to return home. “Present blurs with past, life shades to death, and things unseen haunt the melancholy shadows, delicately cast, in this entrancing Paraguayan clearing” (New York Times). Preceded by Encina's newest film, A Wind from the South. (101 mins)

Charles Burnett (U.S., 1983/2007) Director's Cut! A tragicomic portrait of a young man's complex relationship with his family and his Watts community. “A treasure that demands to be unearthed in all its funny-sad tenderness” (Village Voice). Preceded by Robert Wheaton's A Little off Mark. (91 mins)

Alex Cox (U.K./U.S., 1987/2010). Rude boys gone Western: several bandits, tricksters, and desperadoes-including Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, The Pogues, Courtney Love, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, and Jim Jarmusch-are adrift in a deserted desert town, in Cox's delirious remix of spaghetti westerns and Sam Peckinpah. (91 mins)

Alex Cox (U.S., 1984). A very youthful Emilio Estevez is a young repo man taken under the wing of grizzled Harry Dean Stanton in Cox's first feature and cult favorite, one of the defining films of the 1980s American indie scene. (92 mins)

Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1934). Anarchist attempts to assassinate queen, queen protects anarchist, queen loves anarchist, anarchist loves queen. Or does she . . . and does he? Here the palace is a film studio, the royalty are movie stars, and the fairy tale survives even L'Herbier's ironic analysis. With Charles Boyer and Gaby Morlay. (105 mins)

Max Ophuls (France/Germany, 1955). Restored 35mm print of the French version! In Max Ophuls's audacious final film, a life of passion becomes the stuff of carnival. “The ultimate cinephilic object: a color-and-CinemaScope dream” (Boston Phoenix ).(110 mins) NOTE: This replaces the originally scheduled screening of Panique.