Jean Renoir (France, 1938). Imported 35mm print! Jean Gabin delivers a tragically human performance as a locomotive engineer in Jean Renoir's poetic, pessimistic adaptation of Zola's novel. (105 mins)

Uli Aumüller, Hanne Kaisik (Germany, 1993). Yoko Sugiura-Nancarrow, Mako Nancarrow, Trimpin, and Charles Amirkhanian in person. This crisp 1993 portrait shows us composer Conlon Nancarrow in his well-worn space of vigorous creativity, working in his secluded Mexico City studio amidst antique player pianos, a massive library, and a growing collection of piano rolls. With shorts Studies on Nancarrow, #3C and #7. (53 mins)

John Smith (U.K., 1976–2011). John Smith in person. Introduced by Craig Baldwin. Fascinated by narrative, British filmmaker John Smith delights in image/sound relationships and often employs puns and puzzles, while also venturing into documentary. Films include Om, The Girl Chewing Gum, The Black Tower, Worst Case Scenario, The Kiss, and more. (89 mins)

Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1979). Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity's endless capacity for creativity, whether on the moon or at home in the Philippines. A delightful, self-proclaimed “third-world space spectacle.” (93 mins)

Marcel Carné (France, 1945). "This lushly romantic creation, directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, is a one-of-a-kind film, a sumptuous epic about the relations between theater and life . . . and a film poem on the nature and varieties of love” (Pauline Kael). (182 mins)

Jean Renoir (France, 1937). New 35mm Print! Jean Renoir's deeply humane portrait of World War I POWs, “one of the most haunting of all war films” (NY Times). Starring Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim. (117 mins)

Sacha Guitry (France, 1936). Imported 35mm print! It's not the story, but the telling of it in Sacha Guitry's elegant, hilarious masterpiece of an adventurer and cardsharp who knows that crime indeed pays. (83 mins)