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2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
$24.99 AUD
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
8 1/2 by D. A. Miller
$32.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself. Whether attacked for s ...Show more
Akira by Michelle Le Blanc; Colin Odell
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influenc ...Show more
Alien by Roger Luckhurst
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst ex ...Show more
Chinatown by Michael Eaton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study analyzes 'Chinatown' in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In the account of 'Chinatown''s narrative development Michael Eaton seeks to uncover both its relationship to the pessimism of American cinema in t ...Show more
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari by David Robinson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) remains the source and essence of German Expressionist cinema. Fusing carnival spectacle with the paranoia of the psychological thriller, it centres on the haunting, sexually ...Show more
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter Kramer
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, e ...Show more
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo) by D. A. Miller
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Category: Music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself. Whether attacked for ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Film & TV | 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
Nosferatu (1922): Eine Symphonie Des Grauens by Kevin Jackson
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), the first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. One of the outstanding documents of Weimar culture's dark side, the film's prevailing themes of human destructiveness, insanity, and moral and physical pollution had a stin ...Show more
Pan's Labyrinth by Mar Diestro-Dopido
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth (2006), won a total of 76 awards and is one of the most commercially successful Spanish-language films ever made. Blending the world of monstrous fairytales with the actual horrors of post-Civil War Spain, the film's commingling of real and fantasy ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock - BFI Film Classics by Anna Backman Rogers
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculia ...Show more