Nancy Andrews (U.S., 2009–10). Nancy Andrews in person. Two comedic horror musical documentary animations comprising drawn imagery, puppets, live action, archival footage, and songs written and performed by Andrews. (60 mins)

Zhang Nuanxin (China, 1985). (Qingchunji). A young Beijing woman is “sent down” to live among the Dai minority of Yunnan Province during the Cultural Revolution in this key work from one of China's few Fifth Generation female filmmakers. With Yang Fudong's 2011 short, The Nightman Cometh. (90 mins)

Lewis Allen (U.S., 1947). A card-shuffler and his thuggish partner (Wendell Corey) bring some hot winds into a desert town in this film noir in bright living color, starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, and Corey in his debut role. Saurian-like with sappy eyes, he only warms up when the sun is down. (94 mins)

Anatole Litvak (U.S., 1948) Wealthy shut-in Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) gets connected to a wrong number-and overhears two men plotting a murder, perhaps even hers. Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey, as an ever-caring physician, add flavor to Litvak's paranoia-drenched noir, told through a series of dizzying flashbacks. (89 mins)

Chen Kaige (China, 1984). (Huang Tudi). Sound, landscape, and political history are transformed into blistering poetry in the film that launched China's Fifth Generation and introduced two major voices to world cinema, director Chen Kaige and cinematographer Zhang Yimou. (89 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1950). Strong-willed Barbara Stanwyck's love-hate relationship with cattle-baron father Walter Huston takes on the proportions of Greek tragedy in "one of the darkest Westerns ever made" (SF Chronicle). Wendell Corey costars as “Rip Darrow,” a gambler who's Stanwyck's only match. (107 mins)