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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 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 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 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 30: Sabu!
United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

In the thirties and forties, the young Indian actor known as Sabu (born Selar Shaik) captured the hearts of moviegoers in Britain and the United States as a completely new kind of big-screen icon.

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Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

Jean-Pierre Gorin
United States
Edition: DVD

Jean-Pierre Gorin established
his personal voice with this trio of fascinating,
nontraditional documentaries.

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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 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.
United States
Edition: DVD

Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the New York underground of the sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture.

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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 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer
United States
Edition: DVD

Norman Mailer is remembered for many things— his novels, his essays, his articles, his activism, his ego. one largely forgotten chapter of his life, however, is his late-sixties kamikaze-style plunge into making experimental films.

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Eclipse Series 36: Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures
United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

During the 1940s, realism reigned in British cinema—but not at Gainsborough Pictures. The studio, which had been around since the twenties, found new success with a series of pleasurably preposterous costume melodramas.

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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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