Introduced by Nino Dzandzava. Judith Rosenberg on piano. This special program showcases recent efforts to digitally restore examples of the kulturfilm boom of the late 1920s and early 1930s, films made by young cinephile directors in Soviet Georgia. A fascinating sampling of silent cinema from Georgia. (104 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1982). Hong Kong crooner Kenny Bee is an idealistic big-city teacher assigned to a remote rural village in Hou's gentle look at country life. (91 mins)

Nino Dzandzava, of National Archives of Georgia, discusses challenges facing film archivists before a screening of The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1977). The Wishing Tree is an episodic pastorale set in a pre-Revolutionary Georgian village that spans four seasons in the lives of various village characters. Some twenty-two stories are woven into the narrative, which centers on a beautiful young woman who is forced to marry a man she does not love. Session four of a five-session course. Course registration required.

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1981). Hong Kong singer Kenny Bee and Taiwanese pop diva Feng Fei-fei return for Hou's extremely rare second film, which follows the unlikely romance between a blind man and a photographer across Taiwan's most scenic locales. (81 mins)

Jerome Hiler (US, 2012). Jerome Hiler in person. Two beautiful pieces by the San Francisco filmmaker: In the Stone House, which records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey, and New Shores, which affords glimpses of life led over three decades in San Francisco. (70 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland, 1979). An achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self, Every Man for Himself follows a businessman's encounter with three prostitutes in a nameless Swiss city. With Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye. (87 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1980). Kubrick reinvents horror as a new kind of screwball comedy as Jack Nicholson terrorizes Shelley Duvall at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don't see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese). (144 mins)

Nikoloz Shengelaia (USSR, 1928). Live Music by Trio Kavkasia. One of Russian and Georgian cinema's greatest silent-film achievements, this historical epic evokes the tragic fate of a nation pacified in 1864 by the Tsarist Russian Empire. Features beautiful portrayals of Caucasus customs and celebrations. Special admission prices apply. (80 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1987). The madness of the Vietnam War, as seen through Kubrick's disorienting vision. “May be the best war movie ever made” (Toronto Globe and Mail). “As embracing as a full-metal-jacketed bullet in the gut” (Newsweek). (116 mins)