Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1978). A series of twelve television programs, this now legendary work summons up a funny, frightening image of contemporary France through interviews with two children. Like Roland Barthes or Howard Zinn taking over a kids program, this quizzical delight combines parables and politics, metaphysics and metaphors, childhood wonders and adult disasters. Continues on Tuesday / 2.10.15. (180 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1964). Dean Martin stars as “Dino,” a lascivious lounge singer adrift on a sea of booze who falls for the “wife” of a fellow songwriter. Kim Novak costars in this deliriously vulgar sex comedy, played as embittered film noir. (124 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1978). A series of twelve television programs, this now legendary work summons up a funny, frightening image of contemporary France through interviews with two children. Like Roland Barthes or Howard Zinn taking over a kids program, this quizzical delight combines parables and politics, metaphysics and metaphors, childhood wonders and adult disasters. Continues from Sunday / 2.8.15.

Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 3 to 5 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 6 p.m.

Sarah Maldoror (Angola/Congo, 1972). One of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa is an urgent call for political change. The events leading up to a 1961 prison rebellion in Angola forms the plot. “Maldoror is both presenting history and issuing a call to arms” (Village Voice). (102 mins)

Sarah Maldoror attended film school in Moscow with Ousmane Sembène and worked on The Battle of Algiers before becoming one of African cinema's first women directors, and one of its most passionate voices. Shorts include Monangambée (1968), Carnival in Guinea-Bissau (1971), and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc's recent excavation of Maldoror's lost film Guns for Banta. (57 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 2004). Godard's profound film/essay/provocation on art, war, and society divides itself into three acts à la Dante to investigate how to live in-and respond to-a time of constant conflict, whether in the Balkans, Palestine, or indeed the rest of the world. “Beautiful and elegant” (NY Times). (80 mins)

Eldar Shengelaia, Tamaz Meliava (USSR, 1963). Imported Print! Back by Popular Demand! Shephards battle the elements and manmade temptations in this strikingly shot Georgian work, an entry into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. (97 mins)

Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 1 to 3 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 5 p.m.

Ernst Lubitsch (US, 1939). This comedy develops from cynicism into about as warm a Cold War film as ever there was, as severe Soviet commissar Greta Garbo has her head turned by dashing capitalist Melvyn Douglas. The ads proclaimed, “Garbo laughs!” And so will you. (110 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1959). Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon star in Wilder's outrageous cross-dressing comedy, selected by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie ever made. (120 mins)