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Explore Luis Buñuel

The movies’ great mischief-maker gloried in creating subversive delights like the ones on offer in our new release Belle de jour, in a career that spanned decades and continents.
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Three Reasons: World on a Wire

If this futuristic sci-fi epic is any indication, Rainer Werner Fassbinder knew we were living in the matrix long before the rest of us.
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The Oldest Profession

Catherine Deneuve’s Séverine is just one of the cinematic sex workers in the collection. Take a stroll through our red-light district. It’s free.
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Gorin’s Sundance Winner

Now that this year’s Sundance Film Festival has come to an end, check out a past honoree: Jean-Pierre Gorin’s My Crasy Life, which received a special jury prize in 1992 and is available in our latest Eclipe set.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
La Jetée/Sans Soleil
Chris Marker
The War Room
Chris Hegedus…
Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby
Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave
A Night to Remember
Roy Ward Baker
Letter Never Sent
Mikhail Kalatozov
The Organizer
Mario Monicelli
David Lean Directs Noël Coward
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
Hollis Frampton
Late Spring
Yasujiro Ozu
Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger
Vanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle
Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham
Three Outlaw Samurai
Hideo Gosha
World on a Wire
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
¡Alambrista!
Robert M. Young

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Eclipse 30: Sabu!
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jean-Pierre Gorin
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
Branded to Kill
Seijun Suzuki
Tokyo Drifter
Seijun Suzuki
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
The Moment of Truth
Francesco Rosi
Design for Living
Ernst Lubitsch
Godzilla
Ishiro Honda
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
Rushmore
Wes Anderson
Fanny and Alexander Box Set
Ingmar Bergman
Three Colors
Krzysztof Kieślowski

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Film Essays

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The Moment of Truth: The Blood of Beasts

By Peter Matthews • 25 January 2012 • 0 Comments
A beautifully brutal tale of the exploitation of society’s have-nots, Francesco Rosi’s film is one of his very best. Read more »
Godzilla: Poetry After the A-Bomb

By J. Hoberman • 24 January 2012 • 0 Comments
Ishiro Honda’s mega monster movie is also a mournful elegy for war-ravaged Japan. Read more »
Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

By Kent Jones • 18 January 2012 • 3 Comments
The works that the French filmmaker made in California constitute an unclassifiable, exhilarating “language” trilogy. Read more »

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