A gleefully gothic film lineup at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

A gleefully gothic film lineup at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In that vein, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca,” Clint Eastwood’s Civil War film “The Beguiled” and “Near Dark,” a modern-day vampire flick that was Kathryn Bigelow’s first solo effort as director, are all considered gothic, a genre that has become as undefinable as the term noir.

The series contains some neat surprises along the way, including the Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration “Edward Scissorhands” (Feb. 18, 21); Jack Clayton’s adaptation of Henry James’ “Turn of the Screw” (“The Innocents,” starring Deborah Kerr, Feb. 25, 28); an Ingmar Bergman (“Hour of the Wolf,” Feb. 27-28); “The Beguiled” (March 5-6), in which Eastwood’s wounded Union soldier is shielded by a group of schoolgirls who have the upper hand; and the gorgeous and weird “Black Sunday” (April 7, 10), by Italian horror maestro Mario Bava.

“The American Dreamer”: What did Dennis Hopper do after directing and starring in the smash box-office hit and Hollywood game-changer “Easy Rider”?

The result was the box-office disaster “The Last Movie” and this documentary about an artist on the razor’s edge.