Yasha Aginsky (US, 2014). John Cohen in person. Special guest Alexia Smith. Banjo Tales follows the legendary Mike Seeger (New Lost City Ramblers) as he travels through Appalachia in search of traditional banjo players. Followed by John Cohen's 1976 Musical Holdouts, which traces American traditional music from the Appalachias to the Cheyenne plains. (104 mins)

James Broughton (US, 1948–81). Introduced by Janis Crystal Lipzin. Tonight's program begins with a self-portrait of Broughton and features work from throughout his long, joy-filled career. Films include Mother's Day (“one of the great films in film history” (Peter Kubelka)), Together, This Is It, The Bed, and The Gardener of Eden. (65 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin (France, 1972). Introduced by Erik Ulman. Jane Fonda and Yves Montand star as unlikely leaders of a labor uprising. “The peak of Godard and Gorin's partnership, inspired by Jerry Lewis in general and The Ladies Man in particular” (Lincoln Center). (95 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1962). James Mason falls for a rather underage girl in Kubrick's delightful adaptation of the notorious Nabokov novella. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling. (152 mins)

George Stevens (US, 1956). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean burns through the wide Texas plains in this searing Western-style soap opera also starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Dennis Hopper. A wealthy rancher brings his new wife back home to Texas, where she encounters the land's violence and racism-and a virile cowboy (Dean). (201 mins)