perspective used to address the issue of environmen-tal quality, when—under the Nixon Administration—the FederalGovernment began making serious attempts to improve the envi-ronmental health of the United States. We need a National PrivacyPolicy Act, like the National Environmental Policy Act, in whichCongress declares the clear overall national goals to be pursued,and requires federal agencies to assess all their regulatory activi-ties in light of those goals. As with environmental law, Congressneeds to entrust a lead agency with the primary responsibility forbringing to bear technical as well as legal and political resources inthat effort. The Federal Trade Commission is plainly suited to therole of lead agency on privacy, and its traditional mode of activitysince 1915, namely the investigation and “prosecution” of com-plaints, is the appropriate regulatory style. The FTC can andThere were 27 features and 10 short films scheduled in this year’s New Directors/New Films series (March 16-27, 2016), the 45th in the event sponsored jointly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. The heavy schedule forces one to pick and choose, and there were mixed results out of those I could catch, par for the course, as the purpose is to present the works of new directors and the caliber inevitably varies.

The most engagingly complex of those that I saw was “Suite Armoricaine,” a French film directed by Pascale Breton. Consistently well-acted, the story involves coming to terms with the past in the context of the present, and various relationships are tested in the process.

Valérie Dréville gives a very impressive performance