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10 by Geoff Andrew
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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
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Category: Fiction | 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
Caravaggio by Leo Bersani; Ulysse Dutoit
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Category: Film & TV | 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
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero
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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
La Dolce Vita by Richard Dyer
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Category: Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Fellini's La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its incorporation of real people, events and lifestyles, making it a documentation of its time. It uses performance, ...Show more
M by Anton Kaes
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an international star. Lang's vision of a city gripped wit ...Show more
Rosemary's Baby by Michael Newton
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it finds its home on the cusp between a cinema of sentiment and one of sensation. Michael Newton's study o ...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: Film & TV | 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 Birds by Camille Paglia
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. Camille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities, and analy ...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 Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
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Category: Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through ...Show more