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The Seventh Seal by Melvyn Bragg
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Category: Film Theatre | 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.
The Terminator by Sean French
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Made on a low budget, The Terminator was one of the most influential films of the 1980s. Combining explosive special effects and an intricate time-travel plot, it set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the road to superstardom and allowed its director, James Cameron, to go on to make some of the most expensive fi ...Show more
Thelma and Louise by Marita Sturken
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cinema on its release in 1991. Subject to media vilification for its apparent justification of armed robbery and manslaughter, i ...Show more
Tokyo Story - BFI Film Classics by Alastair Phillips
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.Telling the story of an e ...Show more
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema. Richard Deming's stud ...Show more
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, ...Show more
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time writer-director Bruce Robinson's experiences, this virtually plot-free story follows two out-of-work actors (Withnai ...Show more
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly draw ...Show more