This website
Debuting in September 2006, this new Masters of Cinema Series website was developed by Connotype (design), and Dekko Studios (programming), in collaboration with MoC’s Nick Wrigley. The aim was to provide more information (essays, trailers, images) yet present it in a minimalist, robust, and functional design. If you have any comments or suggestions about this new website, please email info@eurekavideo.co.uk.
Eureka! Entertainment
Eureka Entertainment is the leading independent distributor of classic silent/early films in the UK. The company was responsible for bringing to market the fully restored, remastered, and most comprehensive version of the Fritz Lang classic Metropolis (1927).
2004 saw the birth of the new Masters of Cinema Series, a specially curated DVD collection of classic and world cinema using the finest available materials for home viewing, with important new releases like Onibaba (Shindo, 1964), Sunrise (Murnau, 1927), Francesco giullare di Dio (Rossellini, 1950), The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford, 1936), Twenty-Four Eyes (Kinoshita, 1954), Abhijan (Ray, 1962), Toni (Renoir, 1934), Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979), and in 2006, Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (1946) and the Complete Buster Keaton Short Films 1917-1923.
Eureka Entertainment is independently owned and has been involved in film distribution since 1981, celebrating 25 years in the business in 2006. Most recently Eureka have worked with Gaumont (France); The Criterion Collection (USA); Shochiku (Japan); Toho (Japan); Inray Films (India); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (USA); BBC Worldwide (UK); Murnau-Stiftung & Transit Film (Germany); Intramovies (Italy); Beta Film (Germany); Lobster Films (France); and Force Video (Australia).
Eureka Entertainment
Unit 9 Ironbridge Close
Great Central Way
London NW10 0UF, ENGLAND
Tel: 020 8459 8054
Fax: 020 8459 5162
E-mail: info@eurekavideo.co.uk
Masters of Cinema
The Masters of Cinema organisation is an organic initiative, separate to Eureka, and founded in 2001. The members of MoC are spread around the world (Canada, USA, and the UK) and together they contribute to the popular website mastersofcinema.org—a touchstone for the worldwide cinephile community containing The News Fountain, an international DVD release calendar, and director-related links. In early 2004, Masters of Cinema began collaborating with Eureka on The Masters of Cinema Series.