Harun Farocki (Germany, 1988). (Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges). An impressive meditation on aerial photography, surveillance, and military research. “Here documentary becomes a kind of fiction. Reality unfolds like a detective story” (Mark Nash, The Independent). (75 mins)

Hollis Frampton (US, 1971–72). New 16mm Prints! Introduced by Michael Zryd. The seven films comprising Hollis Frampton's great serial designate several arcs: the history of visual media, the parameters of sound and film, and what Frampton describes as “oblique autobiography.” (202 mins)

Free admission. This combined lecture and screening-using the AMC series Mad Men as a point of departure-surveys recent serial television's creation of a spoiler-sensitive culture and explains what is at stake. (100 mins)

J.P. McGowan (US, 1928). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Introduced by Paolo Cherchi Usai. Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era for a pulpy tale of intrigue, danger, and thrills! (180 mins)

Tengiz Abuladze (USSR, 1984/1987). Imported 35mm Print! Back by Popular Demand! One of the first Russian films to deal with the terrors of the Stalin era, Repentance combines symbolism and surrealism for this look at a paranoid dictator. “Mordantly funny . . . as artful as it is sobering” (NY Times). (153 mins)

Billy Wilder (US/UK, 1970). Sherlock Holmes navigates between twenty-four canaries, eight Trappist monks, six midgets, his Machiavellian brother Mycroft, and the queen of all Victorian heroines, Victoria herself, in Wilder's update of the mystery man. “The best Holmes movie ever made” (Kim Newman, Empire Magazine). (125 mins)