Author/illustrator Julie Downing in person. Are we ever exactly what we want to be? Could we be someone else, someone better, or even just someone exuberantly untamed? Find possible answers in animated films based on books by Mwenye Hadithi, Jack Kent, Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Sendak, and others. (57 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1956). 35mm Restored Print! The second film in Satyajit Ray's beloved Apu Trilogy follows Apu's family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along the banks of the Ganges. “Graceful, insightful, and moving” (SF Chronicle). (106 mins)

Joel and Ethan Coen (U.S., 1998). The Coen Brothers's ever-quotable comedy of bowlers, “the Dude,” nihilists, and more, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, and Steve Buscemi. (117 mins)

Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1975) Digital Restoration! Wajda's epic, this Dickensian portrait of greed in turn-of-the-century Lodz is “a prophetic vision of the industrial revolution impinging on the pastoral life of Poland”(Variety). (170 mins)

Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1951). (Oyu-sama). Imported Print! Kinuyo Tanaka stars in this contemplative and ambiguous account of a love triangle, based on a story by Junichiro Tanizaki and translated through Mizoguchi's use of the long, mobile shot infused with emotion. “An exceptionally poignant melodrama” (Andrew Sarris). (95 mins)

Ishiro Honda (Japan, 1954) Restored Original Version! In this ground-zero exemplar, Godzilla is back in full-force without Raymond Burr announcing the play-by-play. You know the story: A-bomb tests, big lizard, Tokyo, etc. (98 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1958). (Apur Sansar). 35mm Restored Print! Part three of 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)

Derek Jarman (U.K., 1986) New Digital Restoration! “Caravaggio (is) admirably straightforward, but elusive and dreamy nonetheless. Set in a milieu of gamblers and prostitutes, the film evokes the fantasies of rough trade to which the artist supposedly subscribes and then transcends” (J. Hoberman). (93 mins)