So you didn’t go to film school. Maybe you’re a little put-off by film snobs. If you can’t beat’em, the best way to join’em is to see the essentials — the greatest films ever made, the ones that serious and semi-serious film buffs have to have seen to be in the movie conversation.

Maitland’s Enzian Theater is a lot cheaper than film school. If you hit the art cinema on Saturday=, January 12, at noon, you can see “Rashomon,” by Akira Kurosawa, the film that launched his career in the West and one of the greatest movies ever made.

Not so much a samurai picture as a samuri-era whodunnit, the plot and theme were borrowed in scores of other films — different versions of a story, which is the truth?

Toshiro Mifune stars.