A seismic snapshot of early punk —Entertainment Weekly

A terrific documentary about misfit heroes the Ramones, filled with candid interviews, incendiary live footage and zingy two-chord/three-minute songs that changed rock music. (Michael Gramaglia & Jim Fields, 2003, 108 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Swooningly beautiful, furious and thrilling, an action movie for the ages —Chicago Tribune

A masterful epic full of pageantry, glorious color, exciting martial arts and international star power—Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang—Hero is a cinematic delight. (Zhang Yimou, 2002, 96 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

A definitive, low-tech stomping of every sci-fi clone in its wake —Boston Globe

A new 35-mm print of the original, uncut Japanese version of this monster classic, complete with its anti-nuclear age warnings, makes Godzilla even more fearsome. (Ishiro Honda, 1954, 98 minutes)

General public $8 / UCSB students $6

A gripping, deeply moving film —Washington Post

This drama, powered by a revelatory performance by Catalina Sandino Moreno, is about a young Colombian woman gambling for a better life by working as a cocaine “mule.” (Joshua Marston, 2004, 101 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Kubrick’s comic gem sparkles with enduring relevance. —Dallas Observer

This outrageous satire of the military mind—fueled by brilliant performances by Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden—has only grown funnier and more prescient in 40 years. We will screen a new 35-mm print from the 1994 restoration supervised by director Stanley Kubrick. (1964, 93 minutes)

General public $8 / UCSB students $6

Has the potential to change the world. —Entertainment Weekly

Master Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene’s latest drama is a daring tale about a strong-willed woman in a small African village fighting to end the tradition of female circumcision. (2004, 124 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Unequaled film of hip-hop’s early years —Philadelphia City Paper

Wild Style vividly captures the roots of rap in the South Bronx, featuring legendary hip-hop pioneers such as Grand Master Flash, Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artist Lee Quinones. (Charlie Ahearn, 1982, 82 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students free (show valid ID at the door)

An exhilaratingly personal piece of cinema —Newsday

This documentary explores outsider art, focusing on reclusive Chicago janitor/artist Henry Darger, who wrote and painted a stunning 15,000-page fantasy of a war between young girls and child-enslavers. (2004, 81 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Immediate, urgent, angry, poetic and stubbornly hopeful —Chicago Sun-Times

Made for $218 on a Macintosh, Jonathan Caouette’s debut film has been a sensation on the festival circuit. This expressionistic memoir vividly captures his life growing up gay and dealing with a schizophrenic mother. (2004, 88 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Celebrate the spirit of adventure with this perennial A&L audience favorite. Featuring the world’s best films and videos on mountain subjects, the Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour awes viewers with thrills and grandeur captured in exotic locations. An entirely different program screens each evening.

General public $12 / UCSB students & youth 18 & under $10