When a glamorous San Francisco socialite arrives in a small coastal town, the residents begin to witness mysterious, increasingly disturbing behavior from the local bird population in this late-career tour de force from the master of suspense.

A then 28-year-old Jiří Menzel made his feature debut with the story of Miloš (Václav Neckář), a newly minted train dispatcher in occupied Czechoslovakia whose efforts to lose his virginity are egged on by an older fellow dispatcher with ties to the local resistance movement.

The first installment of Guy Maddin’s quasi-autobiographical Me Trilogy centers on a fictionalized Guy (Darcy Fehr), here reimagined as a Winnipeg hockey player who finds himself navigating increasingly convoluted familial and romantic commitments against the backdrop of his own self-defeating (and unmistakably Freudian) personal neuroses.

In Albert Brooks’s deftly witty portrait of purgatory, the writer-director-actor reimagines the pearly gates as a cross between heaven-by-way-of-L.A. and a performance review. Featuring delightfully memorable performances by Meryl Streep and Rip Torn.

In this delightfully imaginative mix of live action and animation, pirates kidnap a professor and his assistant in order to steal his design for a new weapon of mass destruction, with which they plan to take over the world.

Critically dismissed in its own time, Nicholas Ray’s radical repurposing of the Western genre has since been reappraised and championed as a visionary allegorical treatment of sexual politics and the Hollywood blacklist.

The first collaboration between Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, and their longtime cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, begins as a Technicolor wartime melodrama and subsequently evolves into a monochrome meditation on the worth of a life and the righteousness of a death.

Jacques Tati’s follow-up to films featuring his beloved Monsieur Hulot character was a supremely democratic film starring “everybody,” in which the wonders of modern life relinquish their functionality and become a ravishingly beautiful backdrop to pure human delirium.

Following the travails of a young man (Lee Kang-sheng) and his family, Tsai Ming-liang’s third feature is at once overtly metaphorical and deeply committed to the ebb and flow of everyday life: a film about individuals in crisis that builds patiently to a devastating emotional climax.

Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and starring Donald Pleasence, Wake in Fright is a brutal, visceral overlooked gem of the Australian New Wave about a teacher (Gary Bond) who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba and ends up going on a days-long, self-destructive bender.

When María, a young girl newly escaped from a community of German religious extremists in southern Chile, takes shelter in a mysterious house in the woods, she finds herself plunged into a rabbit hole of frighteningly mutable surfaces and substances in Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León’s nightmarish shapeshifter of a film.

This screening takes place at AMC Lincoln Square and is only available to select ticket holders. A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster.