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

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

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

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

Sweet Smell of Success

James Naremore

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• The highest artistic achievement of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, an innovative production company that emerged in Hollywood at the end of the classic studio ... 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

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

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

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

Star Wars

Will Brooker

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's six-part narrative has grown into something more: a cultur... 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

Brief Encounter

Richard Dyer

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman... 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

Blackmail

Tom Ryall

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929) was the first major British sound film. Tom Ryall examines its unusual production history, and places it in the co... 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

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

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

All the President's Men

Robert B Ray, Christian Keathley

• Paperback | Engels | BFI Film Classics
• Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing ... 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

Greed

Jonathan Rosenbaum

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Greed was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork, but his immense plans were his undoing. This volume, reconstructs the history of the film. Eac... Lees meer

The Innocents

Christopher Frayling

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Sir Christopher Frayling explores the journey from Henry James's original novella, The Turn of the Screw, via critical debates and the stage version o... Lees meer

The Shawshank Redemption

Mark Kermode

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Traces the history of The Shawshank Redemption, originally a low-key prison movie, from the pages of Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawsha... Lees meer

Cesar

Stephen Heath

• Paperback | BFI Film Classics
• Bringing to a close his "Marseille" trilogy, "Cesar" was one of Marcel Pagnol's most significant projects. This text reviews the questions that Pagnol... Lees meer