Dave Kehr

The Franco-Swiss filmmaker and provocateur radically rethought motion pictures and left a lasting influence on the medium.

He worked on the musical with Gene Kelly, with whom who he also co-directed another famous production, “On the Town.”

Mr. Lewis rose to fame as Dean Martin’s comedy partner but went on to a major solo career with films like “The Bellboy” and “The Nutty Professor.”

For a time he was one of Hollywood’s most commercially successful directors, piloting nearly 70 feature films, television movies and series episodes.

Mr. Rivette may not have been as well known as his colleagues François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, but his work was revered by film aficionados.

Mr. Resnais helped introduce literary modernism to the movies and became an international art-house star with nonlinear narrative films like “Hiroshima Mon Amour.”

TCM and Columbia’s five-film box set “John Ford: The Columbia Films Collection” covers Ford films in genres not usually associated with him.

A listing of movies opening during the season.

Two Orson Welles peaks are celebrated on DVD: PBS offers “American Experience: War of the Worlds,” and Kino has a Blu-ray edition of “The Stranger.”

“The Vincent Price Collection” and an “Exorcist” reissue are among the Blu-ray releases for horror fans available this Halloween season.