SCREENING ROOM

The American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre celebrates seminal Indian director Satyajit Ray with a weekend retrospective of several of the late helmer’s masterpieces. Screening tonight is “Panther Panchali” (pictured); “Aparajito” and “Apur Sansar” are on tap for Friday; and “The Music Room” and “Charluata” conclude the festival on Saturday (www.aerotheatre. com). . . . The German World War II submarine thriller “Das Boot,” helmed by Wolfgang Petersen (“Troy”), enthralled international critics and audiences when it premiered back in 1982. Watch Petersen’s expanded 1995 version when the director’s cut screens Monday at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles ( www.goethe.de/ ins/us/los). . . . Come and meet those dancing feet this evening at the Silent Movie Theatre as the “Busby Berkeley Dreams” series continues with the surreal Mervyn LeRoy musical “Gold Diggers of 1933,” starring Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, and featuring the memorable dance number “We’re in the Money.” The Silent Movie Theatre is devoting Saturday matinees this month to film noirs starring author Raymond Chandler’s L.A. gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. Screening this week is 1947’s “Lady in the Lake,” an offbeat mystery filmed in a first-person perspective directed by and starring Robert Montgomery ( www.silentmovietheatre.com/calendar).

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-- Susan.King@latimes.com