Cecile Tang Shu Shuen (Hong Kong/U.S., 1969). A Ming dynasty widow, beloved for her grace and kindness, becomes tempted by a visiting soldier in this investigation of propriety, tradition, and repression. Photographed by Satyajit Ray's main cinematographer and edited by Les Blank, this early precursor of the Hong Kong New Wave was praised as “a film of poetic beauty” by Anaïs Nin. (95 mins)

Joshua Logan (U.S., 1956). 2K Widescreen! A staid Kansas town prepares for its annual Labor Day picnic. On the surface, this town is idyllic Americana, but underneath seethe some not-so-bucolic desires. Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and William Holden star. (115 mins)

Blake Edwards (U.S., 1962). 2K Restoration! Bank teller Lee Remick gets a phone call she'll never forget: embezzle a hefty sum from the bank or her sister gets snatched. Edwards (The Pink Panther) goes noir in this San Francisco-set thriller. (123 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973). Imported Print! Student Pick! “A virgin German librarian in her thirties meets a bridge builder while vacationing in Rome; it's a match made in heaven-she's a masochist, he's a sadist….My favorite Fassbinder movie” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). (116 mins)

Brian De Palma (U.S., 1976). 2K Restoration! A heightened homage to Hitchcock's much-valorized Vertigo, this Paul Schrader-written thriller induces bouts of dizziness through its whirlpooling camera moves, eddying Bernard Herrmann score, and maniacal plot twists, replete with body doubles and double crosses. (98 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (U.K., 1964). 4K Restoration! Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers (again) star in Kubrick's scathing satire on the nuclear age. Cold War camp, here brought to life in a luminous 4K restoration. (94 mins)

Nicholas Ray (U.S., 1954). Saloonkeeper Joan Crawford faces Mercedes McCambridge and her vengeful mob in Ray's baroque, gender-bending Western passion play. Fassbinder named it one of his top ten favorite films. (110 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany/France, 1982). Imported Print! Fassbinder adapts Jean Genet's notorious novel of a sailor, a waterfront brothel, a madam, and her husband. “An intensely personal statement that is the most uncompromising portrayal of male homosexual sensibility to come from a major filmmaker” (Penny Ashbrook). (108 mins)