Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1949). Imported 35mm print! Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton star in this colonial gothic/romantic melodrama, “easily one of Hitchcock's half-dozen greatest films . . . senselessly neglected just because it isn't a thriller” (Dave Kehr). Cinematography by the legendary Jack Cardiff. (117 mins)

Werner Schroeter (Germany/Austria, 1991). "In one of the rare truly visual films about writers, Werner Schroeter generates extravagant images to match the insights of the nameless writer he films-played with ferocious precision by Huppert" (New Yorker). Written by Elfriede Jelinek from Ingeborg Bachmann's novel. (125 mins)

Vlatko Gilić (Yugoslavia, 1970–73). A rare opportunity to see Serbian filmmaker Vlatko Gilić's haunting, beautiful-and mostly wordless-short films of the seventies. “Gilić's films are called documentaries. But he's superb at finding the astonishing images that lurk in the ordinary world” (New York Times). (102 mins)

François Truffaut (France, 1959). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Truffaut's quintessential coming-of-age film is a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris, naturalistically captured by cinematographer Henri Decaë. (99 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1947). Italian actress Alida Valli stars as an elegant woman accused of killing her blind husband, with Gregory Peck the unhappily married lawyer hired to defend her. Per Hitchcock: “the degradation of a gentleman who becomes enamored of . . . a nymphomaniac.” With Charles Laughton and Louis Jourdan. (115 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1980). A Sicilian immigrant in Wolfsburg descends into madness and murder in Schroeter's Pasolini-by-way-of-Fassbinder drama. “Schroeter at his artistically most complex, all-embracing, and all-encompassing” (Cinema Scope). (175 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1948). Hitchcock's tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). (80 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1953). Montgomery Clift is a priest who hears a killer's confession and is himself accused of the crime in Hitchcock's sober and often compelling reflection on crime, punishment, and forgiveness. Shot on location in Quebec City. (95 mins)

Valerio Zurlini (Italy/France, 1959). Imported 35mm Print! Set in 1943, the year that saw the fall of Mussolini and the start of the civil war between fascists and antifascists, Violent Summer features Trintignant, at his most handsome, as a fasco-brat who meets a patrician widow. (100 mins)

Werner Schroeter (France/Germany/Portugal, 2002). Isabelle Huppert delivers two of her greatest performances as a pair of twin sisters in Schroeter's “gorgeously composed, utterly berserk, and immensely moving work stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, cabaret singers, and more, all awash in opera arias” (TIFF Cinematheque). (117 mins)