Jean Grémillon (France, 1944). Based on a 1937 news event, and released just before the Normandy invasion, Le ciel est à vous tells of a provincial couple who are devoted to a joint goal: for the wife to break the world solo flying record for women. (105 mins)

(U.S., 1971–88). This compilation of shorts celebrates black culture: Four Women (Julie Dash), Black Art, Black Artists (Elyseo J. Taylor), Define (O. Funmilayo Makarah), Bellydancing-A History & An Art (Alicia Dhanifu), and Festival of Mask (Don Amis). (75 mins)

Haile Gerima (U.S., 1972). Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) who has been imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice. With shorts Brick by Brick (Shirikiana Aina), L.A. in My Mind (O. Funmilayo Makarah), Rain (Melvonna Ballenger), and the collaborative piece Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing (excerpt). (83 mins)

Introduced by Jeff Lambert. A celebration of the Film Foundation and National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters program, with three films that portray San Francisco: Ernie Gehr's Side/Walk/Shuttle, Frank Stauffacher's Notes on the Port of St. Francis, and Abigail Child's Pacific Far East Line. (75 mins)

Spike Lee (U.S., 1990). UPDATE: Sam Pollard's originally scheduled behind-the-scenes lecture is canceled; Pollard is unable to visit the Bay Area due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. We will screen Mo' Better Blues, Pollard's collaboration with Spike Lee, starring a youthful Denzel Washington as a jazz trumpeter. A “foxy, original, and moving film” (Gary Giddins, Village Voice). (127 min)

James R. Greeson (U.S., 2012).Yoko Sugiura-Nancarrow, Mako Nancarrow, Trimpin, and Charles Amirkhanian in person. An original documentary on Arkansas native Conlon Nancarrow, who became one of the most original composers of our time while living quietly in Mexico City. With shorts Studies on Nancarrow, #2 and #18. (62 mins)

Chris Marker (France, 1982). One of the greatest experimental films of all time: a journey through Africa and Japan, and a transgeographic essay on memory, culture, and, of all things, Vertigo. (100 mins)

Jean Grémillon (France, 1938). Imported 35mm print! This rarely screened Grémillon gem is a mordant and morally ambiguous tale of bourgeois hypocrisy, crime, and comeuppance involving Victor, a respectable shopkeeper by day, fence by night. (97 mins)

Tony Silver (U.S., 1984). This legendary, influential documentary captures New York City, circa 1983, and the rise of hip-hop, graffiti, tagging, and break-dancing. See urban pioneers like Kase, Crazy Legs, and more in this testament to the birth of a new style. A great companion piece to our Barry McGee exhibition. (69 mins)