Doc Films opened its summer season last night with Million Dollar Legs, a lunatic Depression-era satire that might test the tolerance of even the giddiest W.C. Fields admirers. But this season at Doc boasts a number of bona fide treasures, including a July 11 screening of Orson Welles’s wonderful Chimes at Midnight, which many of the most devoted Welles enthusiasts consider superior to Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil. The battle scene alone will look remarkable on Doc’s big screen.

There are some highlights this weekend. On Friday at 7pm and 9:30pm, Doc will screen Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot (1976), which like most of the master’s post-Birds oeuvre tends to be grievously undervalued. (Even Topaz has that extraordinary stretch in Harlem.) Hitchcock’s lightest film since The Trouble with Harry finds a con-artist couple (Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris) on the trail of a pair of kidnappers (William Devane and Karen Black); it’s executed with a deft mixture of comedy and suspense that only a master could pull off. And on Saturday—also at 7 and 9:30—there’s a screening of Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die, a 1958 adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel about a love affair in Germany during the waning days of WWII. I’ll be there myself, but I’ve heard it’s sublime—and like Chimes, it’s not on video.