British Film Institute
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The ‘Before’ Trilogy
$17.95 Add to cartIn Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a magica
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hilderbrand, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028025
- Language: English
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When Harry Met Sally…
$17.95 Add to cartGroundbreaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally… (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Following the relationship betwe
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1805750259
- Language: English
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Nashville
$17.95 Add to cartRobert Altman’s Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake o
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hendershot, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028947
- Language: English
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Die Hard
$17.95 Add to cartUpon its release, John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academ
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Lewis, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1839026529
- Language: English
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Cure
$17.95 Read moreKiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an ‘X’ carved into thei
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Lash, Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1839025948
- Language: English
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3 Women
$17.95 Read moreReleased after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wyatt, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1839026022
- Language: English
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Rome Open City
$15.95 Read moreThis study examines Rome Open City and its place in Roberto Rossellini’s career. The film is based on events that took place in Nazi occupied Italy 1944, one year before the film was made. The author … [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics #55
- Author: Forgacs, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 27 2000
- ISBN10: 0851708048
- Language: English
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The Deer Hunter
$17.95 Read moreMichael 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 th
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Prager, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1839025417
- Language: English
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On the Waterfront
$15.95 Read more“I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody.” So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Eli… [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Braudy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 30 2005
- ISBN10: 184457072X
- Language: English
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100 Cult Films
$36.95 Read moreSome films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from- Series: Screen Guides
- Author: Mathijs, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1844574083
- Language: English
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Blue Velvet
$17.95 Add to cartFor many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch’s masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a myst
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Atkinson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1839023716
- Language: English
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Tokyo Story
$15.95 Add to cartThis BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro’s masterpiece.
Ozu’s moving family drama is universally acknowledged as o- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Phillips, Alastair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1911239236
- Language: English
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Seven Samurai
$15.95 Read more- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Mellen, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1839024771
- Language: English
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Sunset Boulevard
$17.95 Read moreBilly 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
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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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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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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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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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The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
$48.00 Read moreMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Re
- Author: Morris, Nathalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1838719172
- 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
