These two early Lean films, shown in newly restored prints, also rank among his finest and most influential.

Lean’s Great Expectations ranks as one of the very best Dickens adaptations, alongside the director’s 1948 Oliver Twist. This telling of Pip’s life and encounters with such memorable characters as Miss Havisham and Magwitch is notable for the Oscar-winning visuals of cinematographer Guy Green and production designer John Bryan. With John Mills, Alec Guinness. (118 mins., 35mm)

Brief Encounter, an often-adapted tale of an unconsummated love affair, is the film that brought Lean his first international attention. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard star as a housewife and doctor who meet and continue to rendezvous in a railway station. Based on a short Noël Coward play titled Still Life. (86 mins., 35mm)

Brief Encounter starts at 9:10 PM.

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