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Eclipse Series 10:
Silent Ozu—Three Family ComediesYasujiro Ozu
Japan
Edition: DVDIn 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 11:
Larisa ShepitkoLarisa Shepitko
Soviet Union
Edition: DVDA 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 12:
Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat TrilogyAki Kaurismäki
Finland
Edition: DVDIn 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 13:
Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen WomenKenji Mizoguchi
Japan
Edition: DVDIn 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 14:
Rossellini’s History Films—Renaissance and EnlightenmentRoberto Rossellini
Italy
Edition: DVDThis 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 15:
Travels with Hiroshi ShimizuHiroshi Shimizu
Japan
Edition: DVDA 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 16:
United Kingdom
Alexander Korda’s Private Lives
Edition: DVDA producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Alexander Korda specialized in stately period drama with surprising satire. These films are exemplars of grand 1930s moviemaking.
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Eclipse Series 17:
Japan
Nikkatsu Noir
Edition: DVDThis 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 18:
Dušan Makavejev—Free RadicalDušan Makavejev
Yugoslavia
Edition: DVDMakavejev’s films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these first three films, he investigates love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.
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Eclipse Series 19:
Chantal Akerman
in the SeventiesChantal Akerman
Edition: DVDOver the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space.
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Eclipse Series 1:
Sweden
Early Bergman
Edition: DVDThese 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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Eclipse Series 20:
United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw
on Film
Edition: DVDThis collection of Gabriel Pascal’s productions of Shaw’s work includes Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, and Caesar and Cleopatra, starring such luminaries of the big screen as Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Wendy Hiller, and Rex Harrison.
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Eclipse Series 21:
Oshima’s Outlaw SixtiesNagisa Oshima
Japan
Edition: DVDOften 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 22:
France
Presenting Sacha Guitry
Edition: DVDSacha 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 23:
The First Films of Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa
Japan
Edition: DVDYears 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 24:
The Actuality Dramas of Allan KingAllan King
Canada
Edition: DVDCanadian 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 25:
Basil Dearden’s London UndergroundBasil Dearden
United Kingdom
Edition: DVDIn the late fifties and early sixties, Basil Dearden created a series of gripping, groundbreaking, even controversial films that dealt with racism, homophobia, and the lingering effects of World War II, noir-tinged dramas that burrowed into corners of London rarely seen on-screen.
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Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse
Mikio Naruse
Japan
Edition: DVDMikio 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: DVDThese 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: DVDKoreyoshi 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: DVDIn 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 2:
The Documentaries of Louis MalleLouis Malle
Edition: DVDWith the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India.
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Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!
United Kingdom
Edition: DVDIn 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: DVDJean-Pierre Gorin established
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Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave
Czech Republic
Edition: DVDOf 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.