Brad Bird (U.S., 2004). Recommended for ages 7 and up. Introduced by sound designer Randy Thom. Meet the Incredibles, just a normal suburban family except for one thing: they're all superheroes. This joyous Pixar pic won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. (115 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1982). "Like most of Fassbinder's best films, this is about a loser: a fading movie star of the 1940s who finds the 1950s bearable only with the help of morphine. Shot in gleaming B&W . . . reminding us, long after Melville and his whale, that white can be as terrifying as black" (NY Film Festival). (104 mins)

Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong, 1992). Imported Print! Maggie Cheung stars in Stanley Kwan's modernist version of the biopic, chronicling the life and tragic early death of the Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu. “A masterpiece . . . the greatest Hong Kong film I've seen” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). (124 mins)

Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong, 2000). Imported Print! Acknowledged as the most acclaimed film of the twenty-first century, Wong Kar-wai's romantic masterpiece ostensibly tracks the relationship between two neighbors (Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai) in early 1960s Hong Kong. “Has a strong claim to being the best-looking film you'll ever see”(Empire). (98 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1975). A factory worker goes postal, making his widow one old and very confused poster girl for the Left. A brittle Brechtian parable of political exploitation that had the distinction of being banned from the Berlin Film Festival. Can't take a joke, or even a tragedy. (115 mins)