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  Eclipse Series 24:
  The Actuality Dramas of Allan King

  Allan King
  Canada
  Edition: DVD

  Canadian director Allan King is one of cinema’s best-kept secrets. It was with his cinema-verité-style documentaries that King left his greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of people whose lives are in flux are riveting and at times emotionally overwhelming.

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  Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave

  Czechoslovakia
  Edition: DVD

  Of all the cinematic New Waves that broke over the world in the 1960s, the one in Czechoslovakia was among the most fruitful, fascinating, and radical.

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  Eclipse Series 12:
  Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy

  Aki Kaurismäki
  Finland
  Edition: DVD

  In these three films, something like social-realist farces, Kaurismäki surveys the working-class outcasts of his native Finland with detached yet disarming amusement.

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  Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys

  Aki Kaurismäki
  Finland
  Edition: DVD

  In the late eighties, Aki Kaurismäki, a master of the deadpan, fashioned a waggish fish-out-of-water tale about a U.S. tour by “the worst rock-and-roll band in the world.”

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  Eclipse Series 4:
  Raymond Bernard

  Raymond Bernard
  France
  Edition: DVD

  One of the greatest and least-known directors of all time, Raymond Bernard helped shape French cinema into a truly formidable industry at the dawn of the sound era. Wooden Crosses and Les misérables exemplify the formal and narrative brilliance of an unjustly overshadowed cinematic trailblazer.

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  Eclipse Series 9:
  The Delirious Fictions of William Klein

  William Klein
  France
  Edition: DVD

  In his three fiction features—Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple—William Klein skewers the fashion industry, American empire, and governmental mind control with hilarious, cutting aplomb.

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  Eclipse Series 22:
  Presenting Sacha Guitry

  France
  Edition: DVD

  Sacha Guitry was once a household name. Something of a Gallic Noël Coward, this disarming, multitalented artist served up some of 1930s French cinema’s tastiest dishes.

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  Eclipse Series 34: Jean Grémillon During the Occupation

  Jean Grémillon
  France
  Edition: DVD

  Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon was a consummate filmmaker from his country’s golden age.

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  Eclipse Series 14:
  Rossellini’s History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment

  Roberto Rossellini
  Italy
  Edition: DVD

  This selection of Rossellini’s history films presents Blaise Pascal, the three-part The Age of the Medici, and Cartesius—works that don’t just enliven the past but illuminate the ideas that brought us to where we are today.

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  Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas

  Raffaello Matarazzo
  Italy
  Edition: DVD

  These haywire hits about splintered love affairs and broken homes, all starring mustachioed matinee idol Amedeo Nazzari and icon of feminine purity Yvonne Sanson, luxuriate in delirious plot twists and overheated religious symbolism.

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  Eclipse Series 3:
  Late Ozu

  Yasujiro Ozu
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Centered on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys and loneliness.

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  Eclipse Series 7:
  Postwar Kurosawa

  Akira Kurosawa
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Amid Japan’s economic collapse and U.S. occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption existing alongside despair and anxiety in this series of pensive, topical dramas.

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  Eclipse Series 10:
  Silent Ozu—Three Family Comedies

  Yasujiro Ozu
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  In these three droll domestic films—Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But . . . , and Passing Fancy—Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents.

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  Eclipse Series 13:
  Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

  Kenji Mizoguchi
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  In these four lacerating works of social consciousness—two prewar, two postwar—Mizoguchi introduces an array of compelling female protagonists, crushed or resilient, who are forced by their conditions and culture into compromising positions.

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  Eclipse Series 15:
  Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu

  Hiroshi Shimizu
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  A curious, compassionate storyteller who was fascinated by characters on the outskirts of society, Hiroshi Shimizu used his trademark graceful traveling shot to peek around the corners of contemporary Japan.

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  Eclipse Series 17:
  Nikkatsu Noir

  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  This bruised and bloody collection represents a standout cross section of the nimble nasties Nikkatsu had to offer, action potboilers modeled on the western, comedy, gangster, and teen-rebel genres.

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  Eclipse Series 21:
  Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

  Nagisa Oshima
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades.

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  Eclipse Series 23:
  The First Films of Akira Kurosawa

  Akira Kurosawa
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and exceptional works, created as World War II raged.

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  Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse

  Mikio Naruse
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Mikio Naruse is one of the most popular directors in the history of Japanese cinema, a crafter of heartrending melodramas often compared with the work of Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi.

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  Eclipse Series 28: The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara

  Koreyoshi Kurahara
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  Koreyoshi Kurahara’s free-form approach to moviemaking was perfectly suited to the radical spirit of the 1960s, when he was one of the biggest hit makers working at the razzle-dazzle, youth-oriented Nikkatsu studios.

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  Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku

  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  In 1967 and 1968, the company created four certifiably batty, low-budget fantasies, tales haunted by watery ghosts, plagued by angry insects, and stalked by aliens—including one in the form of a giant chicken-lizard.

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  Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System

  Masaki Kobayashi
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  These are unforgettable depictions of a postwar Japan troubled by identity crises and moral corruption on scales both intimate and institutional.

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  Eclipse Series 11:
  Larisa Shepitko

  Larisa Shepitko
  Soviet Union
  Edition: DVD

  A true artist who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time.

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  Eclipse Series 6:
  Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy

  Carlos Saura
  Spain
  Edition: DVD

  One of Spanish cinema’s great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country’s dance than any other filmmaker, before or since.

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  Eclipse Series 1:
  Early Bergman

  Sweden
  Edition: DVD

  These early films, which show the stirrings of the genius to come, remain the hidden treasures of a European cinema on the cusp of a golden age.

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