(Tony Buba, U.S., 1972–85). Tony Buba and Rick Ayers in conversation. This compilation brings together several of Buba's remarkable shorts, all focused on life in and around his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania. “These quietly attentive and politically engaged shorts suggest (Buba) as something like his hometown's Harvey Pekar or Studs Terkel.” (Village Voice). (85 mins)

Orson Welles (U.S., 1941). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. A childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles's audacious debut, which still tops many critics' lists of the best films of all time. “Inventing modern cinema is a tough act to follow,” Welles remarked later in his career. (119 mins)

Tony Buba (U.S., 1988). Tony Buba and Rick Ayers in conversation. New Print! Buba's first feature film is the tale of a documentary filmmaker hounded by a celebrity-hungry former subject when the filmmaker is offered a Hollywood gig. “For all its structural playfulness, a more honest and incisive film about…late eighties capitalism would be hard to find” (SFIFF). Preceded by shorts Stigmata and the trailer for Thunder Over Braddock. (84 mins)

Tony Buba, Tom Dubesnky (U.S., 2013). Tony Buba in person. When the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) decided to close the Braddock Hospital, the community responded in force; Buba captures the struggle in vivid detail. Winner of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism. Preceded by short, Voices From a Steeltown-“personal, warm, yet elegiac” (Jump Cut). (95 mins)

Alfred Werker, Anthony Mann (U.S., 1949). Richard Basehart stars as an icy criminal on the run after waxing a cop in Mann's documentary-style noir, a huge influence on the show Dragnet. "A gritty masterpiece!" (Errol Morris). (79 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1949). Mann and cinematographer John Alton work the border between Western and noir in this incredibly tense tale of immigration agents and human smuggling, starring Ricardo Montalbán. (92 mins)

Billy Wilder (U.S., 1959). Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon star in Wilder's outrageous cross-dressing comedy, selected by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie ever made. (120 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). Student Pick! Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Godard's “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael). (97 mins)