Goutam Ghose (India, 1999). Noted Bengali filmmaker and documentarian Ghose was handpicked by Satyajit Ray's widow to create this moving eulogy and tribute to the great director, which acknowledges his influences and draws inspiration from Ray's original red notebook of sketches, first drafts, and musings. (105 mins)

Jean Renoir (France, 1950). IB Technicolor Print! Based on a novel by the author of Black Narcissus, Renoir's wise, warm Technicolor masterpiece follows several young girls coming of age on the River Ganges. A young Satyajit Ray served as a location scout. “The artist, medium, and location combine, as though effortlessly, to produce an experience of surpassing loveliness” (NY Times). (99 mins)

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon/Germany, 2013). The newest work by boundary-pushing Cameroonian filmmaker Bekolo (Quartier Mozart, Les saignantes) uses split screens, true-life interviews, and staged fictions to present a fake documentary in which a president disappears. With Nigerian Ishaya Bako's documentary Fuelling Poverty. (93 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1926). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Hitchcock's first foray into the thriller genre, starring Ivor Novello as the eponymous lodger who just may be a serial killer. The director himself called it “the first true Hitchcock movie.” (90 mins)

Preston Sturges (U.S., 1942). The charming Claudette Colbert abandons her failing hubby (Joel McCrea) to seek a fortune, preferably from a wealthy man, and even better from “the world's richest” (Rudy Vallee). This blazing battle-of-the-sexes comedy is from Preston Sturges, “the most spectacular manipulator of sheer humor since Mark Twain” (Manny Farber). (90 mins)

Lonesome Solo, a.k.a. Souleymane Bamba (Ivory Coast, 2012). Cinema vérité hits the ghetto in this noir and hip-hop–fuelled snapshot of the Abidjan streets, which merges the street-level, DIY aesthetics and energy of contemporary Nollywood with the particular realities of the Ivory Coast. (70 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1959). Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the jazzy genre pastiche that launched Godard's career and embodied the breathless bravado of the New Wave. (90 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1960). A disillusioned French counter-agent in Geneva becomes embroiled with Algerian separatists, Parisian torturers, and Anna Karina in Godard's second film, banned for three years in France. (88 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1961). “A whimsical celebration of romance, sentiment, musical comedy, color film, the city of Paris and the abundant charms of Anna Karina” (NY Times). (85 mins)

George Cukor (U.S., 1949). Adam's Rib isn't just a battle of the sexes, it's a full-blown military campaign. In their sixth film together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play married attorneys, arguing on opposite sides of a trial. (101 mins)