Leo McCarey (U.S., 1933). The brotherhood of Marx was never zanier than in this absurd antiwar story about the possible war between Freedonia and Sylvania, replete with the Palaces of Power, bilious battlefields, and the brazen use of laughing gas. (80 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1958). 35mm Restored Print! Introduced by Josef Lindner. Part three of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. "In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael). (103 mins)

Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Several short avant-garde films demonstrate the creative potential of film as an expressive medium. Plus an introduction film terminology.

Frank Capra (U.S., 1934). “Reporter Clark Gable chases spoiled heiress Claudette Colbert across most of the Eastern Seaboard, pausing long enough between wisecracks to set the definitive tone of thirties screwball comedy. . . . This is Capra at his best” (Chicago Reader). (105 mins)

Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1948). De Sica's masterpiece of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is considered one of the greatest films ever made, and cited by Satyajit Ray as an inspiration. “An allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice). (93 mins)

Edward Cline (U.S., 1940). "Respectable people had best avoid this comedy; if they see it, they may catch a spitball in the eye. W. C. Fields snarls out his contempt for abstinence, truth, honest endeavor, and human offspring” (Pauline Kael). (74 mins)

Howard Hawks (U.S., 1940). Newsroom editor Cary Grant tries to win back his top reporter-and ex-wife-Rosalind Russell in “one of the fastest of all movies, from line to line and gag to gag. . . . A tour de force of choreographed action” (Manny Farber). (92 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1958). 35mm Restored Print! A turn-of-the-century aristocrat whose funds and holdings are dwindling continues to spend money on lavish concerts in his music room, in Ray's rueful, Chekhovian masterpiece, “one of the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema” (Kent Jones). (100 mins)

Andrew Dosunmu (U.S., 2012). Jim Jarmusch regular Isaach De Bankolé and Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) star as a couple with marital problems living in Brooklyn's tight-knit Yoruba Nigerian community. “Ravishing . . . entices us with a world of abundant sensory riches” (Film Comment). (106 mins)