This series of works by influential directors from the second half of the twentieth century began with films by Ingmar Bergman and Satyajit Ray and continues in March and April with more Ray and films by Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky. The series will conclude in May with the work of Robert Altman. Each of 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.