Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1986). (Tenku no shiro Laputa). Ages 8 and up. Two children become caught up in a race against both good-natured aerial pirates and ruthless government agents to claim the secrets of the castle in the sky in this tale inspired by Jules Verne and Gulliver's Travels. (123 mins)

Erick Zonca (France, 1998). (La vie rêvée des anges). Agnès Godard in person. Two young women (Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier) drift along the edges of French society in Erick Zonca's debut work, shot by Agnès Godard on Super 16. “The film has a sensuous, radiant surface that does justice to its title. . . . Godard . . . is a perfect cinematographer for Zonca” (Village Voice). (113 mins)

Volker Schlöndorff (Germany/France, 1979). (Die Blechtrommel). Restored Director's Cut! The rise of Nazism is seen through the diabolically knowing eyes of a child in Schlöndorff's unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, striking eroticism, and unflinching satire, adapted from Günter Grass's acclaimed novel. (163 mins)

Nicolas Roeg (U.K., 1976). An alien falls to earth in the form of the pale, sad, androgynous David Bowie, and attempts to return home in Roeg's science fiction tour de force. “Time has done nothing to reduce its cool, confounding strangeness” (New Yorker). (140 mins)

Márta Mészáros (Hungary, 1968). (Eltávozott nap). A lonely young working-class woman who has grown up in an orphanage seeks her real mother, only to find herself being passed off as a niece, in this Hungarian classic. (80 mins)

Károly Makk (Hungary, 1971). (Szelerem). Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Makk's Love is one of the great masterpieces of Hungarian cinema, “a marvelous film, made with a precision of eye and spirit which records real love” (New Yorker). During the Stalinist early fifties, an elderly woman romantically recalls her life and past loves. (86 mins)

Lech Majewski (Poland/Sweden, 2010). (Mlyn i krzyz). Bruegel's painting The Way to Calvary is brought to life in this wonderfully creative, technologically stunning interpretation “starring” Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. “An extraordinary example of both art-historical examination and CGI as a passport to unknown lands” (Village Voice). (92 mins)

Luis Buñuel (Spain/Italy/France, 1970). Digital Restoration! Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Rey star in Buñuel's tale of amour fou involving a virginal young orphan, a well-to-do older man, and a younger painter. “Nothing less than the quintessential Buñuel film of all time. . . . Extremely funny, bluntly fast-paced, and very, very beautiful in an almost casual, untidy way” (Vincent Canby). (95 mins)