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Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
L'Âge D'or by Paul Hammond
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L' ege d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Bu uel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surrealist masterpiece - a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. The film was banned and vilified for many years in many countries, becom ...Show more
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic, a tremendously effective and influential horror film that has resonated with its audiences, and with independent film-makers, ever since its release in 1968. The movie redefined horror cinema, ripping away its Gothic cobwebs to confront hars ...Show more
Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen
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Category: Film | 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
Star Wars by Will Brooker
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's six-part narrative has grown into something more: a culture that goes far beyond the films themselves, with tie- ...Show more
Sunrise by Lucy Fischer
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love triangle between characters named only as The Man, The Wife, and The Woman from the City. Lucy Fischer's com ...Show more
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Big Sleep (1946): Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve. Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler reunited Bogart and Bacall and gave them two of their mos ...Show more
The Empire Strikes Back by Rebecca Harrison
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished archival research to reveal a variety of original and often surprising perspectives ...Show more
The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) by Jon Lewis
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Category: Film | 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 Seventh Seal by Melvyn Bragg
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A medieval allegory of faith and doubt, 'The Seventh Seal' contains the horrors of witch-burnings and plague, yet also features flashes of peace and joy. Each volume in the 'BFI Film Classics' series contains a personal commentary on the film, a brief production history and a detailed filmography.
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