This summer, take a crash course on international cinema as we present two films each by a quintet of master directors from Europe and Asia. The series begins with Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro on July 7 & 14, respectively. This action-packed diptych features the iconic Toshiro Mifune as an uncanny swordsman-for-hire in feudal Japan. Back by popular demand on July 21 is Costa-Gavras’s elegant suspense piece The Sleeping Car Murders, which will be complemented by two screenings of the Greek director’s most famous film, the Oscar®-winning Z on July 24 & 26. Both French productions feature several of the same actors, including Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintingant. [Costa-Gavras’s American thriller Music Box will screen as part of our Jessica Lange series on July 16 (see above).] Another master of the French thriller, Jean-Pierre Melville will be represented by his prototypical heist classic Bob Le Flambeur (screening July 28), and a very atypical drama, Leon Morin, Priest (July 31 & August 1). The most contemporary filmmaker in this lineup is Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-Liang. A creator of his own surreal and deadpan comic universe, Tsai’s complete “Hsiao-kang Cycle” will be revealed when we present What Time is it There? along with the short film The Skywalk is Gone on August 4, and The Wayward Cloud on August 11. Finally, experience firsthand what “Felliniesque” means when we screen I Vitelloni (August 18) and Fellini Satyricon (August 25). Perhaps Italy’s best-known auteur, these two films provide two glimpses of Federico Fellini in different phases of his career, first as a personal, autobiographical storyteller, and then as the ringmaster of eye-popping spectacle.