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1) Citizen Kane
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English
Description
Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique...
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Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures, as a model for aspiring filmmakers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of the film looks at the significance of The Godfather in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the 1970s and offers a critical and historical discussion of The Godfather's...
3) Blade runner
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
11) M
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English
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"Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an international star. Lang's vision of a city gripped with fear, haunted by surveillance and total mobillization, is still remarkably powerful today. And 'M' resonates too in the serial-killer genre which...
12) The third man
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Series
BFI film classics volume 73
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment."...
14) Marnie
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie, weaving critical discussion together with production history to reveal Marnie as a woman in flight from her self, her past, her love, and the eyes of surveilling others. Challenging many received opinions--including...
15) Alien
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Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
16) Solaris
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Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
18) Touch of evil
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Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 study of the film considers it as an outstanding example of the noir genre and explores its complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by...
19) La règle du jeu
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On behalf of the British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
La Règle du jeu was the first and is still the finest of all the films that we see in a director's cut. The work of French cinephiles in the 1950s restored Jean Renoir's work to glory. It had been a disaster at its premiere in 1939, just weeks before the outbreak of war. Its failure, Renoir wrote, 'depressed me so much that I made up my mind either to forsake cinema or to leave France.' Before and after its rejection at the box office, panic cutting...
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