Leslie Harris’s indie touchstone made a splash when it won a special jury prize at Sundance in 1993, offering a window into a world still sorely underrepresented in mainstream cinema: that of an ambitious, outspoken, and hilarious young black woman growing up in Brooklyn and navigating the trials and tribulations of adolescence. Boasting a charismatic performance from star Ariyan A. Johnson and a killer hip-hop and R&B soundtrack (with an emphasis on women artists), Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. is both a vivid time capsule of 1990s New York and a bracingly raw and real coming-of-age portrait that’s lost none of its vitality.

Thursday, November 28

Glorious Food!

Just in time for Thanksgiving, feast your eyes on a buffet of some of cinema’s most sumptuous banquets, a smorgasbord of lip-smacking delicacies that delight in the sensual pleasures and social rituals of eating. Start with a bowl of lusciously slurpable ramen in the freewheeling Japanese satire Tampopo, then tuck into couscous so fragrant it practically wafts off the screen in the richly textured Franco-Arab family portrait The Secret of the Grain. Next up: an epic celebration of authentic Italian cooking in Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s charming Big Night, a decadent seven-course spread of French haute cuisine as served up in the senses-ravishing Oscar winner Babette’s Feast, and a tender portrait of a family told through their weekly Sunday meals in Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman. And if you’ve still got room for more, there is gastronomic debauchery galore courtesy of Věra Chytilová and Luis Buñuel, offbeat odes to garlic and Cajun cuisine from Les Blank, a most memorable dinner with Andre, and more. Bon appétit!

The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel, 1962

Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, 1963

Daisies, Věra Chytilová, 1966

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers, Les Blank, 1980

My Dinner with Andre, Louis Malle, 1981

Tampopo, Juzo Itami, 1985

Babette’s Feast, Gabriel Axel, 1987

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Peter Greenaway, 1989

Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking, Les Blank, 1990

Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991

Eat Drink Man Woman, Ang Lee, 1994

Big Night, Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996

The Secret of the Grain, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007

Still Walking, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008

Friday, November 29

Double Feature: Fraud Alert

The Baron of Arizona and F for Fake