(L’UCCELLO DALLE PIUME DI CRISTALLO, Dario Argento, Italy/West Germany 1969, 98 min., 35mm)

Argento’s feature film debut is a heart-stopping sex thriller that earned him comparisons with Hitchcock. This variation on the Jack the Ripper story, about a psychopath who stalks young women through the streets of Rome, is given a boost by the nerve-jangling, dissonant music of Ennio Morricone.

Then at 8:45 pm

(IL GATTO A NOVE CODE, Italy/France/West Germany 1971, 112 min., 35mm)

A blind man (Karl Malden) and a newspaper reporter (James Franciscus) team up to solve a series of bizarre murders somehow tied to experiments at a pharmaceutical company. Two films for one regular admission price.