Orson Welles (U.S., 1938) West Coast Premiere! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Paolo Cherchi Usai in person. Recently discovered in Italy and superbly restored by George Eastman House, the Mercury Theatre's Too Much Johnson reveals Orson Welles, pre-Citizen Kane. “A major rediscovery . . . that deeply traces the roots of Welles's art, both stylistically and thematically” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker). With short, Myron Falk Home Movie. (69 mins)

Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1951). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. "I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life" (Ozu). An exquisite, faintly melancholic portrait of a family, with the radiant Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends. (135 mins)

Clive Donner (U.S., 1965). Return to the swingin' sixties! Woody Allen's first feature script tracks a neurotic playboy (Peter O'Toole) as he tries to conquer Paris's countless sex kittens (including Ursula Andress and Paula Prentiss) and his equally demented therapist (Peter Sellers). (108 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1962). Ray's first film in color is a tale of manners and mores played out amid a Himalayan landscape as dramatic as the conflicts on display. “Ray's most creative and detailed look at contemporary India's cross-cultures” (Albert Johnson). (102 mins)

Mel Brooks (U.S., 1967). In Brooks's first film, a has-been Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) hopes to bilk his investors by producing a surefire failure: Springtime for Hitler, the musical. With Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn. Academy Award for Best Screenplay. (88 mins)

Woody Allen (U.S., 1969). Rare Studio Print! A blundering boychik from the borscht belt turns to robbery in Woody Allen's perfect parody of a fifties noir, shot in the Bay Area. A film this funny should be illegal. (85 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1964). Restored Print! Introduced by Dilip Basu. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore novella, Charulata follows one woman's romantic and intellectual yearning in late nineteenth-century India. Ray's personal favorite of his works. (122 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1966). Jean-Pierre Léaud is one of “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola”-the young people of Paris circa 1965. (110 mins)