Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1974). New 35mm Print! A magic-carpet fantasy rooted in realism, filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal. “Pasolini's most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns). Adults only. (129 mins)

Moumen Smihi (Morocco, 2012). (Tanjaoui: Peines de coeur et tourments du jeune Tanjaoui Larbi Salmi). Moumen Smihi in person. New Print! Set in the early 1960s, the third part of Smihi's Tangier trilogy finds Larbi Salmi navigating both young adulthood and the early years of Moroccan independence. (95 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1972). The well-crafted world of a famous designer is slowly unraveled by the treachery of love. "A haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue" (David Denby, New Yorker). (124 mins)

Abigail Child (U.S., 1983–2013). Abigail Child in person. Works spanning thirty years of the filmmaker's career, from 16mm to digital, that reveal Child's roots in language poetry, and feature her genre-jumping juxtapositions of public and private histories. (73 mins)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1975). New 35mm Print! Pasolini's most controversial film-a graphic adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's famous work, adapted to an Italian Fascist milieu-“has not been tamed by the passage of years” (LA Times). Adults only. (117 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1976). Student Pick! Fassbinder out-Buñuels the master in this camp satire on the haute bourgeoisie starring Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen. "The humor fits the cruelty like a boot fits a groin" (Time Out). (86 mins)

Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Dorothy Malone star in Sirk's fever-dream of a melodrama about the emotional wreckage of an oil-rich family. “In Written on the Wind the good, the ‘normal,' the ‘beautiful' are always utterly revolting; the evil, the weak, the dissolute arouse one's compassion,” observed Fassbinder. (99 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). Fassbinder's legendary made-for-television science-fiction epic. An evil cybernetics company creates another version of our world; one investigator soon wonders, though, which world is real? This existential head-trip anticipated The Matrix, Blade Runner, and Inception. (204 mins plus intermission)