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Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Music | 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
Grave of the Fireflies by Alex Dudok de Wit
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds ...Show more
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own ...Show more
La Dolce Vita by Richard Dyer
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Category: Film Theatre | 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: Art | 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
Mean Streets by Demetrios Matheou
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative friends ...Show more
Meshes of the Afternoon by John David Rhodes
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), filmed by Maya Deren and her then husband Alexader Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard for a mere $274.90, is the most important film in the history of American avant-garde cinema. The artistic collaboration between Deren and Hammid finds its distorted reflect ...Show more
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic, Gayatri Chatterjee draws on new research in the Mehboob studio archive to outline the film's eventful production ...Show more
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
Pandora's Box by Pamela Hutchinson
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die B chse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic charms lead to disaster for the men drawn into her web. Despite failing commercially upon release, it has evolved into a cult film long after it should have b ...Show more
Performance by Colin MacCabe
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts w ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock - BFI Film Classics by Anna Backman Rogers
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Category: Film Theatre | 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