This ingenious, scruffy 1967 metafiction by Jim McBride is an exotic fruit grown in New York from the seed of the French New Wave.

NEWYORKER: David Holzman's Diary

The young Spanish director Oliver Laxe stars in this tender and witty metafiction, as Oliver, a Spanish director who arrives in Tangiers to work with children in a social-services school on a blandly educational film.

NEWYORKER: You All Are Captains