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Pan's Labyrinth by Mar Diestro-Dopido
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth (2006), won a total of 76 awards and is one of the most commercially successful Spanish-language films ever made. Blending the world of monstrous fairytales with the actual horrors of post-Civil War Spain, the film's commingling of real and fantasy ...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
Spirited Away - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Andrew Osmond
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal and universal. It tells the story of a listless lit ...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
The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) by Jon Lewis
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of The Godf ...Show more
The Godfather, Part II by Jon Lewis
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of meetings between aspiring 'Godfather' Michael Corleone ...Show more
The Lives of Others - (das Leben der Anderen) - BFI Film Classics by Annie Ring
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover. Annie Ring analyses the film's ...Show more
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum) by Julian Preece
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and radical, in particular in respect of women's cinema and its portrayal of the ordeal of its female lead ...Show more
The Matrix by Joshua Clover
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters and produced by Joel Silver, was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American zeitgeist, and, as the original film in a blockbusting franchise, a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood film-making. Starring Keanu Reeves a ...Show more