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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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  Eclipse Series 20:
  George Bernard Shaw
  on Film

  United Kingdom
  Edition: DVD

  This 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 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 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 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 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 25:
  Basil Dearden’s London Underground

  Basil Dearden
  United Kingdom
  Edition: DVD

  In 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: 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 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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  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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  Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Germany
  Edition: DVD

  From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules.

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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 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 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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