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Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96
An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.

‘Dutchman’: An Electrifying Dance of Death
A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the Museum of Modern Art.

‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’: A Classic Disappearing Act Reappears
Anointed Australia’s greatest movie by the country’s film institute, “Hanging Rock,” in a new restoration, opens Friday at the IFC Center.

David Lynch Dead: ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director Was 78
A visionary, his films included “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” considered his masterwork. He brought his skewed view to the small screen with “Twin...

‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’: Frank Capra’s Two-Fisted Santa
This 1936 comedy, starring Gary Cooper and showing for a week at Film Forum, turns the tables on the period’s metropolitan melodramas.

‘Bona’: A Filipina Superstar Wreaks Vengeance in a Two-Fisted Melodrama
Recently rediscovered and now digitally restored, Lino Brocka’s 1980 movie, starring Nora Aunor, opens for a week at Metrograph.

‘Il Grido’: Love and Loss in Italy’s Po River Valley
Long overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni’s later work, this feature, newly restored, is being revived at Film Forum, complete with once-censored scenes.

‘Querelle’: Fassbinder’s Defiant Swan Song
Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film, based on Jean Genet’s novel, about a young sailor’s criminal and erotic escapades.

‘No Fear, No Die’: Claire Denis’s Noir Comes Home to Roost
The French filmmaker’s confident third feature has been largely overlooked. Thankfully, a newly restored version is getting its first New York run since 1992.

‘Seven Samurai’: Masterless Warriors in a Cinematic Masterpiece
Akira Kurosawa’s epic has always been known for its action-film artistry, but there is emotional heft and nuance as well.