Jean Vigo (France, 1934). Imported 35mm print! Vigo's only full-length feature is a poetic masterpiece on the theme of passionate love, employing fantastic set pieces and bizarre juxtapositions to tell of a young barge captain and his peasant bride in their first days together. With Vigo's infamous boarding-school riot of a film, Zero for Conduct. (141 mins)

Peter Weir (U.S., 1998). David Thomson in person. Film historian David Thomson presents Peter Weir's The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey as a man trapped in his own television show, followed by a signing of his newest book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies-and What They Have Done to Us. (103 mins)

Jim Hubbard (U.S., 2012). Hubbard's exhilarating and empowering film captures ACT UP in the act of invention. Contemporary interviews, intercut with archival footage, reveal the lasting power of this grassroots movement that redefined activism and AIDS politics-and saved lives. “As scrappy and passionate as the actions it documents” (NY Times). (93 mins)

Georges Franju (France, 1960). A brilliant plastic surgeon lures unsuspecting women into his lab in order to find a face for his disfigured daughter in Franju's shimmering fantasy, part horror film, part poetry. With Franju's powerful slaughterhouse documentary, Blood of the Beasts. (108 mins)

David Lynch (U.S., 1997). Introduced by Barry Gifford. A saxophonist (Bill Pullman) is found guilty of murdering his wife (Patricia Arquette), but once in prison he morphs into someone else (Balthazar Getty) in David Lynch's incomparable nineties noir. (134 mins)

Álex de la Iglesia (Spain/Mexico/U.S., 1997). Uncut European Version! Introduced by Barry Gifford. Javier Bardem with a mullet-that's just the beginning of a randy ride through this adaptation of Gifford's notorious 59° and Raining, a singed saga of tainted love between carnivorous Ms. Durango (Rosie Perez) and Romeo Dolorosa (Bardem), a Santeria priest and all-round psychopath. (126 mins)