Twenty-two years ago, Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art created an initiative dedicated to restoring valuable films from its own archive as well as from contributing foundations and studios. Some of the films had been forgotten; others were simply in need of touch-ups. Early iterations of “To Save and Project” featured Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s The New Babylon (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution (1964), and Harry Hurwitz’s The Projectionist (1970), all of which are superb and none of which can be easily seen elsewhere. The museum has shown a commitment to highlighting well-known films (from Fritz Lang, for example) in addition to those less known, such as James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (1971), which is on the roster this year. Also on the menu are contributions from Yevgeni Cherviakov, André Bonzel, and Frank Borzage. —Jack Sullivan