Pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.

We conclude our year-long retrospective on Jean-Luc Godard with Mitra Farahani's See You Friday, Robinson, a long-distance dialogue between Ebrahim Golestan, a giant of Iranian cinema and literature and Jean-Luc Godard. In memory of Ebrahim Golestan.

Tarkovsky belongs to that handful of filmmakers who, with a small, concentrated body of work, created a universe. Though he made only seven features, thwarted by Soviet censors and then by cancer, each honoured his ambition to crash through the surface of ordinary life and find a larger spiritual meaning: to heal modern art's secular fragmentation by infusing it with metaphysical dimension.

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.