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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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Torment

Alf Sjöberg
1944 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher.

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Crisis

Ingmar Bergman
1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In Ingmar Bergman’s feature directing debut, urban beauty-shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

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Port of Call

Ingmar Bergman
1948 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gösta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self-destruction.

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To Joy

Ingmar Bergman
1949 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

An orchestra violinist’s dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage to the patient, caring Marta in Ingmar Bergman’s heartbreaking To Joy.

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Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle

Louis Malle
Edition: DVD

With 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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Vive le Tour

Louis Malle
1962 • 19 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In his short documentary Vive le Tour, Louis Malle presents his energetic evocation of the Tour de France.

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Humain, trop humain

Louis Malle
1973 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In his documentary Humain, trop humain, Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.

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Place de la République

Louis Malle
1974 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In Place de la république, Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

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Phantom India

Louis Malle
1969 • 363 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

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Calcutta

Louis Malle
1969 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

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God’s Country

Louis Malle
1985 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline.

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. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

Louis Malle
1986 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.

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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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Early Spring

Yasujiro Ozu
1956 • 145 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In his first film after the commercial and critical success of Tokyo Story, Ozu examines life in postwar Japan through the eyes of a young salaryman, dissatisfied with career and marriage, who begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.

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Tokyo Twilight

Yasujiro Ozu
1957 • 141 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

One of Ozu’s most piercing portraits of family strife, Tokyo Twilight follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.

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Late Autumn

Yasujiro Ozu
1960 • 128 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

The great actress and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara plays a mother gently trying to persuade her daughter to marry in this glowing portrait of family love and conflict—a reworking of Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring.

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The End of Summer

Yasujiro Ozu
1961 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.

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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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Les misérables

Raymond Bernard
1934 • 279 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Hailed by film critics around the world as the greatest screen adapation of Victor Hugo’s mammoth nineteenth-century novel, Raymond Bernard’s dazzling, nearly five-hour Les misérables is a breathtaking tour de force, unfolding with the depth and detail of its source.

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Eclipse Series 5:
The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller
United States
Edition: DVD

These three independent films showed off Samuel Fuller’s genre diversity, gutter wit, and subversive force, and pointed the way to a controversial career in studio moviemaking.

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