NEW YORK: So far as Western critics and film historians were concerned for most of the past half century, the writer-director Satyajit Ray was that country's film industry, a personal artist whose working methods and concern placed him very much at odds with the Bollywood factory. And as Bollywood films have acquired an exotic cachet in the West in recent years, Ray has slipped into perhaps the greatest chasm of neglect of any long-canonized film artist, a man whose vast body of work is seldom seen in retrospectives and next to nonexistent in terms of representation on home video. "First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy" (April 15-30) at Film Society of Lincoln Center provides a rare chance to catch up with the master's work through the early 1970s, starting with the films that make up the legendary " Apu trilogy" (Pather Panchali, Aparjito, and The World of Apu) and concluding with the lesser-known "Calcutta trilogy", an attempt to portray an India changing not necessarily for the better, The Adversary, Company Limited, and The Middleman. Also included are such rarely screened but highly cherished films as Three Daughters, Devi, and Days andf Nights in the Forest, as well as Shyam Benegal's 1982 documentary Satyajit Ray, Filmmaker.

The Museum of Modern Art hosts a retrospective of the films directed by Mike Nichols, from his first, hugely successful films, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate through to his more recent Closer and Charlie Wilson's War. Also included are his theatrical adaptations for HBO, Wit and the two-part Angels in America, both starring Emma Thompson. The program runs from tonight through May 1.

BERKELEY: On Thursday, April 16, Pacific Film Archives screens the camp classic cautionary exploitation film Reefer Madness sweetened with a "Live musical soundtrack by UC Berkeley student DJs. Plus shorts and reefer rolling contest!" We make no judgements here at the Screengrab. Now shut up and pass the brownies.

ALBERTA, CANADA: The Calgary Underground Film Festival runs from tonight through April 19. The lineup includes Azazel Jacobs's Momma's Man, the documentaries Nerdcore Rising, Veer, and Monsterland, and the omnibus flick Tokyo!. Plus a number of shorts, including the seasonal horror comedy Treevenge, which can be sampled in the clip below: