“One of the most exciting filmmakers of our time” (<i>Film Comment</i>), Jia Zhangke contemplates a China perpetually reinventing itself, and the people left behind in the transition. Our retrospective surveys the observational, highly original work of this contemporary master.

“Ning Ying knows Beijing the way Martin Scorsese knows New York” (<i>Boston Phoenix</i>). China’s most important woman director maps her country’s shifting physical and cultural topography with deadpan humor and clear-eyed intelligence. She is an artist in residence at PFA this fall.

In the sixties, Jean-Luc Godard broadened the notion of screen romance to embrace a wide entrancing world: this was movie love. Godard celebrates and deconstructs his various inspirations—Anna Karina, Paris, cinema itself—in eight films, including several new prints.

In documentaries and unvarnished fictions, Jean Eustache recorded provincial French traditions and the mating habits of post-1968 Parisians with the same detached fascination. This series presents a rare opportunity to explore his career beyond the landmark <i>The Mother and the Whore</i>.

Our Tuesday evening avant-garde showcase returns for a wide-ranging fall season that features works by Craig Baldwin, Robert Beavers, James Benning, Robert Breer, Valie Export, and many others, plus a program of found-footage works in memory of the late Bruce Conner.

Dust off your old home movies and share them with the world, or just come and enjoy the spectacle. “Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance for family memories to suddenly become show business.”—John Waters

Bay Area originals Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff present their great tribute to teen disaffection.

Dean Stockwell is a speechwriter with bite in this satiric treat from the era of Tricky Dick.

Classics by masters from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky; little-seen genre gems; fabulously kitschy relics of the Soviet era—all are part of the panorama of Russian cinema presented in this eclectic survey.