{"product_id":"actuality-dramas-of-allan-king-the-eclipse-series-24-dvd","title":"Actuality Dramas of Allan King, The (Eclipse Series 24) (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUS Import\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCanadian director Allan King is one of cinema’s best-kept secrets. Over the course of fifty years, he shuttled between features and shorts, big-screen cinema and episodic television, comedy and drama, fiction and nonfiction. It was with his cinema-verité-style documentaries, though—his “actuality dramas,” as he called them—that King left his greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of people whose lives are in flux—damaged children, warring spouses, the terminally ill— always done without narration or interviews, are riveting and at times emotionally overwhelming. Humane, cathartic, and important, Allan King’s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to be seen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2\"\u003eFILMS IN THIS SET\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eWarrendale\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor his enthralling first feature, Allan King took his cameras to a home for emotionally disturbed young people. Situated inside the facility like a fly on the wall, we witness the full spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve fascinating children and the caregivers trying to nurture and guide them. The stunning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarrendale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewon the Prix d’art et d’essai at Cannes and a special docu­mentary award from the National Society of Film Critics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eA Married Couple\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBilly 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaces\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elook like early Doris Day” (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e). Intense and hectic, frightening and funny,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Married Couple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis ultimately a film about the eternal power struggle in romantic relationships, as well as a document of the moment when entrenched gender roles began to crumble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eCome On Children\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. What emerges in front of Allan King’s cameras are the fears, hopes, and alienation of a disillusioned generation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCome On Children\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a swift, vivid rendering of the growing pains of a counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eDying at Grace\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDying at Grace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring some of the most memorable people ever captured on film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eMemory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllan King brings us in close to the people who reside and work in a home for geriatric care in this beautifully conceived, powerful documentary. 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