Compiled by the editorial desk with reference to venue listings and program notes from the respective institutions.

New York's repertory theaters are rolling out a dense slate of rare and restored films this weekend, from a newly restored Fassbinder television epic to Edward Yang's celebrated family drama Yi Yi. For those who prefer celluloid, several screenings will be presented on 35mm, a format increasingly scarce in commercial cinemas.

The Museum of Modern Art leads with a Saturday screening of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, part of its annual “To Save and Project” series. The film, a five-part television work from 1972, has been newly restored and offers a deep look at working-class life in Germany. MoMA also continues its “Film at Club 57” program, which this week includes Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin, and a retrospective of Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, whose films have drawn international acclaim for their stark social critiques.

Downtown at Metrograph, the weekend program pairs fashion with cinema—though not in the same film—alongside a curated selection under the “Welcome to Metrograph” banner. That lineup features Yi Yi, the 2000 Taiwanese drama that traces a Taipei family through marriage, birth, and loss, plus works by D.W. Griffith and Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. The latter, a taut thriller about truck drivers transporting nitroglycerin, remains a staple of suspense cinema.

At the Quad Cinema, the Cohen Media Group retrospective bridges contemporary and classic titles, with Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel among the standouts. Kiarostami's meditative explorations of perception and Buñuel's sharp social satires offer contrasting yet complementary viewing experiences.

Film Forum turns its attention to documentary verité with a series titled “60s Verité,” featuring works by Agnès Varda, the Maysles brothers, and Jean Rouch. These filmmakers helped define observational cinema, capturing real life with handheld cameras and minimal intervention. Also continuing at Film Forum is Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 Cuban classic that blends fiction and documentary to examine post-revolutionary alienation.

Further downtown, Anthology Film Archives screens Roberto Rossellini's The Flowers of St. Francis on Friday and Sunday. The 1950 film, a series of vignettes from the life of the saint, is a key work of Italian neorealism, shot with non-professional actors and a documentary-like approach.

For genre fans, Nitehawk Cinema offers a double dose of fantastical horror with films by Mario Bava and Guillermo del Toro. Bava, the Italian master of giallo, and del Toro, known for his dark fairy tales, provide a fitting counterpoint to the weekend's more austere offerings.

With so many theaters programming overlapping schedules, the challenge is less about finding a film than choosing among them. The venues listed—MoMA, Metrograph, Quad, Film Forum, Anthology, and Nitehawk—are among the city's most reliable for repertory programming, and many of these screenings are one-off events unlikely to be repeated soon.