This series presents works by five influential directors from the second half of the twentieth century. February brings four films by Ingmar Bergman, plus Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. March, April, and May will bring more Ray followed by films by Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Robert Altman. All these directors broke new ground in making serious and compelling art of the fiction film. In their respective ways they invented new forms, explored new territory in human psychology, offered new political and cultural critiques, and made a strong case for reawakened spirituality as the desperate need of late twentieth-century humankind. To view the films in this series is to open ourselves to some of the deepest and most interesting crosscurrents of world cinema in the last forty years.