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2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001- A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and dazzling display of visual effects, the breathtaking scope of its story, which reaches across millions of y ...Show more
8 1/2 by D. A. Miller
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself. Whether attacked for s ...Show more
Akira by Michelle Le Blanc; Colin Odell
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influenc ...Show more
Alien by Roger Luckhurst
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst ex ...Show more
Chinatown by Michael Eaton
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Category: Special Orders | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study analyzes 'Chinatown' in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In the account of 'Chinatown''s narrative development Michael Eaton seeks to uncover both its relationship to the pessimism of American cinema in t ...Show more
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo) by D. A. Miller
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Category: Music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself. Whether attacked for ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock - BFI Film Classics by Anna Backman Rogers
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculia ...Show more
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e I Suoi Fratelli) by Sam Rohdie
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for exis ...Show more
Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, but at the ...Show more
The Big Lebowski by J. M. Tyree; Ben Walters
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Category: No Category | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ethan and Joel Coen's The Big Lebowski was released in 1998 to general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a cult classic and remains so over 20 years later, inspiring a thriving circuit of 'Lebowski Fests' during which costumed devotees gather at bowling alleys and guzzle White Russians. Beyond its ...Show more
The Exorcist (BFI Film Classics) by Mark Kermode
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praised as 'deeply spiritual' by some sections of the Catholic Church while being picketed by the Festival of Light and branded 'Sata ...Show more