Pandora's Box

Pamela Hutchinson

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Die Buchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1929), starring Hollywood icon Louise Brooks, is an established classic of the silent era. Pamela Hutchinson re... Lees meer

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse Der Pandora)

Pamela Hutchinson

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) , stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic cha... Lees meer

Rushmore

Kristi Irene McKim

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore- the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the... Lees meer

The Searchers

Edward Buscombe

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• 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 infl... Lees meer

From Here to Eternity

J E Smyth

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones's bestselling novel, the landmark blockbuste... Lees meer

Sweet Smell of Success

James Naremore

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• One of the most daring films of the 1950s, the dark satire Sweet Smell of Success , took on McCarthyism at a time when film studios were cringing unde... Lees meer

Last Year in Marienbad: ("L'annee Derniere a Marienbad")

Jean-Louis Leutrat

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad, "1961) was a collaboration between direct... Lees meer

Ratcatcher

Annette Kuhn

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Lynne Ramsay's bleak yet beautifully photographed debut unflinchingly portrays life on a Glasgow housing estate during the 1973 refuse collectors' str... Lees meer

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) remains the source an... Lees meer

Brazil

Paul McAuley

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Widely believed to be Terry Gilliam's best film, Brazil's brilliantly imaginative vision of a retro-futuristic bureaucracy has had a lasting influence... Lees meer

Star Wars

Will Brooker

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• 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... Lees meer

New Screen Media

Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp

• Boek | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with differen... Lees meer

Solaris

Mark Bould

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically mar... Lees meer

Do the Right Thing

Ed Guerrero

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• This text discusses how the film, "Do The Right Thing" epitomises Spike Lee's powerful impact on the representation of race and difference in America,... Lees meer

Brief Encounter

Richard Dyer

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, Brief Encounter (1945) is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love that still resonates tod... Lees meer

Trainspotting

Murray Smith

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• In this book, Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to the enormous success of Trainspotting . He isolates the various factors that make Trainsp... Lees meer

Blackmail

Tom Ryall

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Blackmail was the first major British sound film. Tom Ryall examines its unusual production history, and places it in the context of Hitchcock's other... Lees meer

The Big Sleep

David Thomson

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• This text shows how The Big Slee p signalled a change in the nature of Hollywood cinema, as the director Howard Hawks shot extra scenes, fun scenes, t... Lees meer

Throne of Blood

Robert N Watson

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) is widely regarded as the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This fascinating interpretation of the ... Lees meer

Memories of Underdevelopment

Darlene J Sadlier

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a classic of Cuban revolutionary culture, and is hailed as a prime example of a radical ... Lees meer

Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Peter Kramer

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the definitive film about the nuclear age. Peter Kra... Lees meer

Ivan the Terrible

Yuri Tsivian

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. The book attempts to follow the train of thought that conne... Lees meer

Unforgiven

Edward Buscombe

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Unforgiven is dedicated to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood's two cinematic mentors, who represent, respectively, the legacy of the classic... Lees meer

Trainspotting

Murray Smith

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a ... Lees meer