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Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg
1971 • 100 minutes • 1.78:1 • Australia
Spine: #10 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir
1975 • 107 minutes • 1.66:1 • Australia
Spine: #29 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In Peter Weir’s lyrical, meditative 1975 masterpiece, a Valentine’s Day picnic at an ancient volcanic outcropping turns to disaster for the residents of Mrs. Appleyard’s school when a few young girls inexplicably vanish on Hanging Rock.

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The Last Wave

Peter Weir
1977 • 106 minutes • 1.77:1 • Australia
Spine: #142 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

In Peter Weir’s The Last Wave, Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own.

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Revanche

Götz Spielmann
2008 • 122 minutes • 1.85:1 • Austria
Spine: #502 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann, a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption.

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La promesse

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1996 • 94 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #620 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. This is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening.

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Rosetta

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1999 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #621 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense vérité drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother.

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The Kid with a Bike

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
2011 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • Belgium
Spine: #646 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Spare and unsentimental but deeply imbued with a heart-rending tenderness, The Kid with a Bike is an arresting work from the great Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, masters of the empathetic action film.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman
1975 • 201 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #484 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Whether seen as an exacting character portrait or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

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La chambre

Chantal Akerman
1972 • 11 minutes • 1.33:1 • Belgium
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In Chantal Akerman’s early short film La chambre, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.

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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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Videodrome

David Cronenberg
1983 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • Canada
Spine: #248 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. This is one of David Cronenberg’s most provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking sex and violence.

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Mon oncle Antoine

Claude Jutra
1971 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada
Spine: #438 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Claude Jutra’s evocative portrait of a boy’s coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time.

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Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg
1991 • 115 minutes • 1.78:1 • Canada
Spine: #220 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone.

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Brand upon the Brain!

Guy Maddin
2006 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • Canada
Spine: #440 Edition: DVD

This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Guy Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.

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Paddle to the Sea

William Mason
1966 • 28 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Based on Holling C. Holling’s beloved, Caldecott-awarded children’s book, William Mason’s stunning film follows the adventures of a tiny, wood-carved canoe as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Warrendale

Allan King
1967 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

For his enthralling first feature, Allan King took his cameras to a home for emotionally disturbed young people. The stunning Warrendale won the Prix d’art et d’essai at Cannes and a special documentary award from the National Society of Film Critics.

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A Married Couple

Allan King
1969 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Billy and Antoinette Edwards let it all hang out for Allan King and crew in this jaw-dropping examination of a marriage in trouble, which “makes John Cassavetes’s Faces look like early Doris Day” (Time).

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Come On Children

Allan King
1972 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In the early 1970s, ten teenagers (five boys and five girls) leave behind parents, school, and all other authority figures to live on a farm for ten weeks. Come On Children is a swift, vivid rendering of the growing pains of a counterculture.

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Dying at Grace

Allan King
2003 • 143 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre.

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Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

Allan King
2005 • 112 minutes • 1.77:1 • Canada
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

For four months, King follows the daily routines of eight patients suffering from dementia and memory loss; the result is searing, compassionate drama that can bring to the viewer a greater understanding of his or her loved ones.

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The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 • 160 minutes • 2.00:1 • China
Spine: #422 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, about the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated.

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The Joke

Jaromil Jireš
1969 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Jaromil Jireš’s brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel tells the fragmentary tale of a man expelled from the Communist Party because of a political joke.

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Pearls of the Deep

Jiří Menzel, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš…
1966 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors.

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Daisies

Věra Chytilová
1966 • 76 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.

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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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