Search Results for: BFI Film Classics
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Rosemary’s Baby
$15.95 Add to cartRosemary’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
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Newton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1844579522
- Language: English
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The Red Shoes
$17.95 Read moreEndlessly 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 lea
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hutchinson, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839026065
- Language: English
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Spirited Away
$17.95 Read moreSpirited 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 fi
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Osmond, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1838719520
- Language: English
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The Exorcist
$15.95 Add to cartInspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praise
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Kermode, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1839021713
- Language: English
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Eraserhead
$17.95 Add to cartA 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 th- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Henry, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839025603
- Language: English
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The Silence of the Lambs
$15.95 Add to cartReleased in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its cen
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Tasker, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1839023678
- Language: English
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The Big Lebowski
$17.95 Read moreEthan 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 ‘Lebows
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Tyree, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1838719601
- Language: English
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Detour
$18.62 Add to cartLong considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film
buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) has recently earned
a new wave of recognition. In the words o- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Isenberg, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1844572390
- Language: English
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When Harry Met Sally …
$15.95 Read moreWhen Harry Met Sally (1989) is one of the definitive romantic comedies and has had an enormous impact on the development of the genre since its release. With an illuminating scene-by-scene analysis, T
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1844579077
- Language: English
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Grave of the Fireflies
$17.95 Read moreOn 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
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wit, Alex Dudok de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1838719245
- Language: English
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Rushmore
$17.95 Read moreEarning 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-
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: McKim, Kristi Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1839024496
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life
$17.95 Read moreFrank 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 194
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Newton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1839023481
- Language: English
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Red River
$15.95 Read moreThis study explores the thematic complexity of Red River, as well as its historical resonances and its place in film history. The author focuses on the actors’ contribution to the movie and on Red Riv… [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics #57
- Author: Liandrat-Guigues, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 26 2001
- ISBN10: 0851708196
- Language: English
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The Thing
$15.95 Add to cartAn extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Billson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1839023597
- Language: English
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Lost in Translation
$15.95 Add to cartSofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an uncert
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Ferriss, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1839024917
- Language: English
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Grave of the Fireflies
$17.95 Add to cartOn 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
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wit, Alex Dudok de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1838719245
- Language: English
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Point Blank
$17.95 Read moreJohn Boorman’s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasti
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wilson, Eric G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 183902576X
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$17.95 Read moreAlan J. Pakula’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Ray, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839024046
- Language: English
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Mean Streets
$17.95 Read moreMean 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 f
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Matheou, Demetrios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1839022957
- Language: English
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Sunset Boulevard
$17.95 Add to cartBilly Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its open
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Cohan, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1839024089
- Language: English
