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3 Films by Louis Malle Louis Malle Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically—and controversially—as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants >>> Color   1.66:1   France

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3 Women Robert Altman, 1977 In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naïve and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model >>> 124 minutes   Color   2.35:1   USA

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The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock, 1935 The best known of Hitchcock’s British films, this civilized spy yarn follows the escapades of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase >>> 86 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   UK

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4 by Agnès Varda Agnès Varda Agnès Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past fifty years. She is widely >>> Black and White/Color   1.33:1/1.66:1   France

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The 400 Blows François Truffaut, 1959 François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 >>> 99 minutes   Black and white   2.35:1   France

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49th Parallel Michael Powell, 1941 At once a compelling piece of anti-isolationist propaganda and a quick-witted wartime thriller, 49th Parallel is a classic early work from the inimitable British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric >>> 123 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   UK

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8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e Mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) >>> 138 minutes   Black and White   1.85:1   Italy

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À nos amours Maurice Pialat, 1983 With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching À nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a >>> 102 minutes   Color   1.66:1   France

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À nous la liberté René Clair, 1931 One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair's À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the >>> 83 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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Ace in the Hole Billy Wilder, 1951 One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its >>> 111 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA

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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel François Truffaut The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director >>> Black and White/Color      France

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Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy Aki Kaurismäki The poignant, deadpan films of Aki Kaurismäki are pitched somewhere in the wintry nether lands between comedy and tragedy. And rarely in his body of work has the line separating those >>> Color   1.85:1   Finland

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Alexander Nevsky Sergei Eisenstein, 1938 Eisenstein drew on history, Russian folk narratives, and the techniques of Walt Disney to create this broadly painted epic of Russian resilience. This story of Teutonic knights vanquished by Prince Alexander >>> 108 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Soviet Union

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That >>> 93 minutes   Color   1.33:1   Germany

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All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk, 1955 Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk’s heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist >>> 89 minutes   Color   1.77:1   USA

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Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard, 1965 A cockeyed fusion of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist poetry, Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time. Eddie Constantine stars >>> 99 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France

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Amarcord Federico Fellini, 1974 In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini's most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, >>> 123 minutes   Color   1.85:1   Italy

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El amor brujo Carlos Saura, 1986 The Flamenco Trilogy's most straightforward narrative is also its most forthrightly theatrical, a modern take on composer Manuel de Falla's gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. >>> 103 minutes   Color   1.66:1   Spain

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #6: Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy

And God Created Woman Roger Vadim, 1956 The astounding success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose >>> 92 minutes   Color   2.35:1   France

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And the Pursuit of Happiness Louis Malle, 1986 In 1986, Louis Malle, himself a transplant to the United States, set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers (from teachers to >>> 81 minutes   Color   1.33:1   USA

Single Disc Available only in the ECLIPSE SERIES #2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle

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