Satyajit Ray (India, 1965). Restored Prints! These two films were intended to screen as a double bill and show a side of Ray unknown to most: populist, funny, willing to try anything. The light-hearted The Coward focuses on a bizarre love triangle, while The Holy Man is a comic exposé of the folly of the superstitiously devout. (140 mins)

Jia Zhangke (China, 2013). Masterful director Jia Zhangke (24 City, Still Life) takes on the collateral damage of China's maniacal growth. Four violent deeds are explosively restaged to illustrate everyday citizens pushed to the edge . . . of the economy. Best Screenplay, 2013 Cannes Film Festival. (133 mins)

Woody Allen (U.S., 1972). Seven segments of sensual satire cover such age-old sexual mysteries as "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" told in Elizabethan English, and “What Are Sex Perverts?” staged as a 1950s game show. Woody at his wackiest. (88 mins)

Mel Brooks (U.S., 1974). Mel Brooks was never zanier as he does Transylvania with a twist, aided by some of the greatest comics ever assembled onscreen: co-scribbler Gene Wilder, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, and Marty Feldman. (107 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1970). Imported Print! Ray's most overtly Renoir-ish film, and probably his masterpiece. Four young men from Calcutta spend a few days in the country, and their youthful arrogance gets them into a series of disastrous and often hilarious adventures. "A major film by one of the great film artists, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and the incomparably graceful Sharmila Tagore" (Pauline Kael). (115 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1966). An incisive view of prostitution and Paris, with breathtaking color photography by Raoul Coutard. “Perhaps Godard's greatest feature" (Susan Sontag). (90 mins)