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{{short description|Line of DVD and Blu-ray releases published through Eureka Entertainment}}

Masters of Cinema ( [http://www.mastersofcinema.org www.mastersofcinema.org] ) is an organic initiative, founded in 2001. The members of MoC are spread around the world (Canada, USA, and the UK) and together they contribute to their popular website — a touchstone for the worldwide cinephile community containing The News Fountain, an international DVD release calendar, and director-related links.

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'''Masters of Cinema''' is a line of [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] releases published through Eureka Entertainment. Because of the uniformly branded and spine-numbered packaging and the standard inclusion of booklets and analysis by recurring film historians, the line is often perceived as the UK equivalent of [[The Criterion Collection]].<ref name="Raygun">{{cite web|title=Top 10 Masters Of Cinema|url=http://www.theraygun.co.uk/?p=5668|publisher=The Raygun|accessdate=9 February 2016}}</ref>

== History ==

In early 2004, Masters of Cinema began collaborating with Eureka Entertainment on the [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc Masters of Cinema Series], a highly-respected UK-based boutique DVD label. Their DVD releases are numbered, typically have very fine extra features, and all come with sumptuous booklets. The releases to date (July 2006) are approaching the 50-mark and are:

The line takes its name from a film website by the same name that was launched in 2001 and covered the work of well-regarded [[film director]]s such as [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], [[Akira Kurosawa]], [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]] and [[Yasujirō Ozu]]. In 2004, the website began coordinating with Eureka Entertainment to offer a line of DVDs that focused on renowned filmmakers and films considered to be the best of their type.<ref name="Eureka">{{cite web|title=What is Masters of Cinema?|url=https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc|publisher=Eureka Video|accessdate=1 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225144816/https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc|archive-date=25 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2008, the organization was sold to Eureka Entertainment and became a wholly owned label of the company.

== Collaborations ==

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/001.htm Sunrise] (F. W. Murnau, 1927)

In their effort to create definitive editions the line complements their releases with a collection of new or available scholarly material such as interviews, documentaries, essays, and commentary tracks. Filmmakers such as [[Guillermo del Toro]], [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Peter Watkins]] and [[Claude Lanzmann]], scholars such as [[Tony Rayns]], [[David Bordwell]] and David Kalat and critics such as [[Kent Jones (writer)|Kent Jones]], [[Phillip Lopate]], [[Adrian Martin]] and [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] have all created exclusive content that was used for releases in the line.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eurekavideo.co.uk/masters-of-cinema/|title = Masters of Cinema &#124; Eureka}}</ref>

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/002.htm The Holy Mountain] (Arnold Fanck, 1926) - 2 x DVD

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/003.htm Michael] (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1924) - 2 x DVD

== Releases ==

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/004.htm Tartuffe] (F. W. Murnau, 1926)

Masters of Cinema started releasing titles on DVD in 2004.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} In 2008, the company expanded the range to include Blu-ray and Dual Format releases.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Mad Detective | work=Eureka | url=https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/mad-detective/ | accessdate=16 April 2019}}</ref> As of 2024, the company has released over 300 films under the line, including more than 160 films on Blu-ray.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/005.htm Pitfall] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/006.htm The Face of Another] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)

== Reception ==

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/007.htm Asphalt] (Joe May, 1929)

Releases under the line are often voted among the best home video releases, including in the best of the year lists by [[Sight and Sound]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2014|work=[[Sight and Sound]] | title=The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2014|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2015|work=[[Sight and Sound]] | title=The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2015|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2016|work=[[Sight and Sound]] | title=The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2016|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> ''[[Little White Lies (magazine)|Little White Lies]]'' listed six releases from the line in their top twenty releases of 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lwlies.com/articles/the-best-home-entertainment-releases-of-2015|work=[[Little White Lies (magazine)|Little White Lies]] | title=The best home entertainment releases Of 2015|accessdate=23 April 2016|last=Jenkins|first=David}}</ref> and four in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lwlies.com/articles/20-best-home-ents-releases-of-2016|work=[[Little White Lies (magazine)|Little White Lies]] | title=The 25 Best DVD & Blu-ray Releases Of 2016|accessdate=23 April 2016|last=Jenkins|first=David}}</ref>

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/008.htm Metropolis] (Fritz Lang, 1927) - 2 x DVD

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/009.htm Spione] [Spies] (Fritz Lang, 1928)

''[[The Guardian]]'' chose their release of ''[[Silent Running]]'' as the best reissue of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/17/dvd-blu-ray-releases-of-2011|work=[[The Guardian]] | title=The Best DVD & Blu-ray releases of 2011|first=Phelim|last=O'Neill|date=17 December 2011 |accessdate=15 November 2016}}</ref>

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/010.htm Francesco giullare di Dio] [Francis, God’s Jester] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/011.htm Humanity and Paper Balloons] (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)

== References ==

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/012.htm The Naked Island] (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)

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# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/013.htm Onibaba] (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/014.htm Kuroneko] (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)

== External links ==

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/015.htm Scandal] (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

#* -{{official [httpwebsite|https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/mocmasters-of-cinema/016.htm The Idiot] (Akira Kurosawa, 1951)}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080913145351/http://www.mastersofcinema.org/ Original mastersofcinema.org website] archived at the [[Wayback Machine]]

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/017.htm Vengeance is Mine] (Shohei Imamura, 1979)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/018.htm Twenty-Four Eyes] (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954)

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# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/019.htm Nightmare Alley] (Edmund Goulding, 1947)

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# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/020.htm Assassination] (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/021.htm Punishment Park] (Peter Watkins, 1971)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/022.htm The Prisoner of Shark Island] (John Ford, 1936)

# - Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (F. W. Murnau, 1922) - 2 x DVD

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/024.htm Faust: A German Folk Tale] (F. W. Murnau, 1926) - 2 x DVD

# - Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau, 1931) - 2 x DVD

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/026.htm The Savage Innocents] (Nicholas Ray, 1959)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/027.htm Abhijan] [The Expedition] (Satyajit Ray, 1964)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/028.htm Toni] (Jean Renoir, 1934)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/029.htm Kwaidan] (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)

# - The Complete Buster Keaton Short Films 1917-1923 (Buster Keaton) - 4 x DVD

# - F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/032.htm Funeral Parade of Roses] (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/033.htm Shoeshine] (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)

# - [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/034.htm Fantastic Planet] (René Laloux, 1973)

# - Repast [Meshi] (Mikio Naruse, 1951)

# - Sound of the Mountain [Yama no oto] (Mikio Naruse, 1954)

# - Flowing [Nagareru] (Mikio Naruse, 1956)

# - Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) - 4 x DVD

# - Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen] (G. W. Pabst, 1929)

# - Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] (Fritz Lang, 1929)

# - Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924) - 2 x DVD

# - Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

# - Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, 1975) - 2 x DVD

# - Silence [Chinmoku] (Masahiro Shinoda, 1971)