Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1978). A journalist making a video about his newspaper's production process discusses the rough cut with his collaborator, in Godard's work of deconstruction, both of cinema and its processes. (78 mins)

Susan Oxtoby lectures on “Cinema and the Arts in Georgia,” followed by a screening of Pirosmani, a poetic biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili. This delicately expressive film received its North American premiere at BAM/PFA in 1974 and then went on to win the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival and garner international critical acclaim. Session two of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Student filmmakers in person. Introduced by student curators. Witness the future of cinema-today-in this year‘s student film festival, which brings together exciting new works from colleges throughout the Bay Area. Includes films from SFSU, SFAI, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, CCA, and UC Santa Cruz. (70 mins)

Jerry Stoll (US, 1967). Special guests cinematographer Stephen Lighthill, antiwar activist Michael Smith, environmental journalist Gar Smith. Stoll's formidable film tracks a two-day protest in which thousands of antiwar activists marched from the UC Berkeley campus to the Oakland Army Terminal. (98 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tseng Chuang-hsiang, Wan Jen (Taiwan, 1983). Considered the opening salvo of the New Taiwan Cinema, The Sandwich Man combined short films by three directors into a declaration of intent and a statement on a rapidly modernizing Taiwan. (100 mins)

Rob Reiner (US, 1984). Turn it up to eleven as tightly spandexed past-it rockers Spinal Tap reunite for a doomed US tour. One of the greatest comedies of all time, a “rare comedy that is as completely entertaining now as it was back then” (LA Times). (82 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1980). Hou Hsiao-hsien made an unlikely feature debut with this breezy romantic comedy starring Hong Kong singer Kenny Bee and Taiwanese pop diva Feng Fei-fei. Eighties fashion, Canto-pop-driven montages, and glimpses of a changing Taipei pepper this tale of mismatched lovers. (90 mins)

Ivan Perestiani (USSR, 1924). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Distinctive location shooting, inspired compositions, and beautiful use of natural light lend an atmospheric, almost documentary quality to this silent work set in late nineteenth-century Georgia. (150 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1971). The droogs are coming, and they fancy a bit of the old ultraviolence, in this highly influential punk-anarchic vision of the future, starring Malcolm McDowell as a jack-booted psychotic on the loose. Often quoted, never topped. (136 mins)