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10 by Geoff Andrew
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (199 ...Show more
2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
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
A Taste of Honey by Melanie Williams
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey (1961) is a multi-award-winning landmark film in British cinema history and one of the few key films of the British New Wave to have be written by a woman (Shelagh Delaney, adapting her own stage play). Melanie Williams' study explores the many ways in which A Tast ...Show more
All the President's Men by Robert B. Ray; Christian Keathley
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations. Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christ ...Show more
Amore Perros by Paul Julian Smith
Category: unmapped | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Amores Perros (2000) speaks to an international audience while never oversimplifying its local culture. This study of this film opens up that culture, revealing the film's relationship to television soap operas, pop music and contemporary debates about what it means to be Mexican.
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
Category: Art and Design | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes o and mouths o of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that wa ...Show more
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean 'cult' movie that nevertheless has recognisable stars and was broadly ...Show more
Bonnie and Clyde by Lester D. Friedman
Category: True Crime | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This work presents an insight into the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, the film said to have changed American cinema, reinvigorating the gangster genre with European, New Wave techniques and a radically candid view of sex and violence. Bonnie and Clyde changed American cinema, reinvigorating the gangster ge ...Show more
Caché (Hidden) by Catherine Wheatley
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Cach . The film's enigmatic and multi-layered narrative leaves its viewers with many more questions than answers. The plot revolves around the mystery of who is sending a series of s ...Show more
Caravaggio by Leo Bersani; Ulysse Dutoit
Category: Art | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers- Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest De ...Show more
Cléo de 5 A 7 by Steven Ungar
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Cl o de 5 7 (Cl o from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cl o, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Repub ...Show more
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero
Category: Film & Tv | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the film's ensemble cast, including Lee himself, brilliantly play out the edgy negotiations and dramas of a r ...Show more