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The Empire Strikes Back by Rebecca Harrison
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished archival research to reveal a variety of original and often surprising perspectives ...Show more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 Exorcist (BFI Film Classics) by Mark Kermode
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 Theatre | 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 Theatre | 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 Leopard (il Gattopardo) by David Weir
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Category: No Category | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy during the Risorgimento.The film, starring Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, met with succ ...Show more
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by A. L. Kennedy
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfyi ...Show more
The Lives of Others - (das Leben der Anderen) - BFI Film Classics by Annie Ring
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Category: Film Theatre | 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 Theatre | 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 Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through ...Show more
The Matrix by Joshua Clover
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Category: Film Theatre | 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
The Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to leave them with troubling questions. Representing the climax of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cel ...Show more
The Searchers by Edward Buscombe
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius, is enormous. John Wa ...Show more