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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
Thelma and Louise by Marita Sturken
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Category: Film & TV | 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
Tokyo Story - BFI Film Classics by Alastair Phillips
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.Telling the story of an e ...Show more
Toy Story - A Critical Reading by Tom Kemper
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Category: Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The first computer-generated animated feature film, Toy Story (1995) sustains a dynamic vitality that proved instantly appealing to audiences of all ages. Like the great Pop Artists, Pixar Studios affirmed the energy of modern commercial popular culture and, in doing so, created a distinctive alternativ ...Show more
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, ...Show more