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2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
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Category: Film | 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
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
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Category: Film | 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
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero
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Category: Film | 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
In the Mood for Love by Tony Rayns
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Category: No Category | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Set in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia in the 1960s, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discove ...Show more
La Dolce Vita by Richard Dyer
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Category: Film | 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
Rosemary's Baby by Michael Newton
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Category: Film | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film | 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
Thelma and Louise by Marita Sturken
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cinema on its release in 1991. Subject to media vilification for its apparent justification of armed robbery and manslaughter, i ...Show more
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema. Richard Deming's stud ...Show more
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