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Ratcatcher by Annette Kuhn
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Lynne Ramsay's bleak yet beautifully photographed debut unflinchingly portrays life on a Glasgow housing estate during the 1973 refuse collectors' strike, as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie). After James's friend falls into a canal and drowns, James becomes increasing ...Show more
Rebecca by Patricia White
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point for an exploration of the film's enduring power. Drawing on archival r ...Show more
Rosemary's Baby by Michael Newton
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
Rushmore by Kristi Irene McKim
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic coming-of-age story wrapped in comedy drama, Rushmore focuses on the efforts of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman)-a ...Show more
Sanshô Dayû (Sansho the Bailiff) by Dudley Andrew; Carole Cavanaugh
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Category: No Category | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansh Day (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film sch ...Show more
Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
Spirited Away - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Andrew Osmond
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
Star Wars by Will Brooker
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
The Big Lebowski by J. M. Tyree; Ben Walters
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 Big Sleep by David Thomson
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 Birds by Camille Paglia
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 Deer Hunter by Brad Prager
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. Brad P ...Show more