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Justin Wyatt
3 Women

BFI Film Classics

"Justin Wyatt's study of Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977) considers four distinct aspects of the film: the function of space and Altman's ability to guide the action through the careful unfolding of the mis…

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Vlad Dima
Black Girl (La Noire de...)

BFI Film Classics

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century. Black Girl was his…

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Dana Polan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

BFI Film Classics

"Dana Polan's compelling study of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) examines the film's significance to New Hollywood cinema and the science fiction genre. He argues that it is …

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Dominic Lash
Cure

BFI Film Classics

"Dominic Lash's study of Cure (1997) is the first, book-length study of the film, providing an in-depth analysis of its theme, generic conventions, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scáene, sound, and lega…

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Nick James
Heat

BFI Film Classics

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight…

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Tony Rayns
In the Mood for Love

BFI Film Classics

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in …

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David Forrest
Kes

BFI Film Classics

Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling kestrel fr…

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Barbara Mennel
Mädchen in Uniform

BFI Film Classics

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that defied established societal norms, showcasing the power of women, both behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Chri…

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Jon Hughes
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)

BFI Film Classics

Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930) is now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema, which influenced It…

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Dana Polan
Pulp Fiction

BFI Film Classics

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and full of…

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Kimberly Lamm
Riddles of the Sphinx

BFI Film Classics

A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, a…

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Richard Dyer
Seven

BFI Film Classics

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films of the…

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Steven Cohan
Some Like It Hot

BFI Film Classics

Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massa…

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David Weir
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)

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Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy during …

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Mark Kermode
The Shawshank Redemption

BFI Film Classics

How did a low-key prison drama which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? Mark Kermode traces the history of this unexpected audienc…

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Elena Gorfinkel
Wanda

BFI Film Classics

Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miner's…

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Catherine Russell
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)

BFI Film Classics

Mikio Naruse's When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960) combines high melodrama with modernist film language, telling the story of Keiko, a bar hostess struggling to succeed in Tokyo's Ginza district. Cathe…

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James S. Williams
Xala

BFI Film Classics

Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new…

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