This fall, students across the country will be entering their first year of film school, but The Criterion Collection will be putting on some classes of their own with their lineup of September releases.

Leading the pack is Michael Haneke‘s powerful “The Piano Teacher” starring Isabelle Huppert. The director’s second entry on the boutique label won’t be brimming with too many extras, but we should just be thrilled that the film, long unavailable on DVD, is in print, and coming newly restored as well.

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On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I open with more talk of repertory cinema, in this case the recent 4K restoration of “Donnie Darko” currently playing in some arthouses around the country (and also getting a gorgeous new blu-ray release from Arrow Video). From there, I recommend you see “The Lost City Of Z” in a theater, and soon (also check out Rodrigo’s great interview with director James Gray on his new podcast).

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Think of Jon Nguyen’s “David Lynch: The Art Life” as “The David Lynch Origin Story.”  The documentary seeks to penetrate the sometimes impenetrable work of director David Lynch by chronicling his path towards filmmaking, and through it all, the famed director — with his crashing-wave of a haircut and ever-present cigarette — makes for an endearing, honest tour guide through his early life.

Lynch, the filmmaker behind such iconic works as “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks,” and “Mulholland Drive” (recently named the “Best Film of the 21st Century” via a BBC poll), makes films steeped in surrealism and horror, so it’s no surprise the art he creates in his studio shares similar attributes.

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As we get ready to fall in love with David Lynch all over again when he returns with a new season of “Twin Peaks” next year, the filmmaker is also opening up about his life. In a way, 2017 could be Peak Lynch (pun intended), with the director not only showing us that he hasn’t lost the passion for his craft, but helping us understand the man behind some of the most twisted visions to ever hit the big screen (not including “The Straight Story“).

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