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Groundhog Day

by Ryan Gilbey

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 One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
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Easy Rider

by Lee Hill

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 A new edition of a study of the 1969 cult road movie Easy Rider in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Le Samourai

by Daisuke Miyao

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 A study of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 neo-noir crime drama Le SamouraÃ¯ in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Double Indemnity

by Richard Schickel

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 A new edition of Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir masterpiece Double Indemnity in the BFI Film Classics series.
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A Hard Day'S Night

by Samira Ahmed

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 A study of The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964) by journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed, in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Touki Bouki

by Rosalind (King'S College London, Uk) Galt

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 A study of Djibril Diop MambÃ©tyâ€™s 1973 film Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena) in the BFI Film Classics series.
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When Harry Met Sally...

by Tamar Jeffers (University Of Kent, Uk) Mcdonald

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 A new edition of Tamar Jeffers McDonald's study of the classic romcom When Harry Met Sally ... (1989) in the BFI Film Classics series.
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If....

by Mark Sinker

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 A new edition of a study of Lindsay Anderson's cult film If ... in the BFI Film Classics series
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Shoah

by Professor Sue (University Of Sheffield, Uk) Vice

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 A new edition of the BFI Film Classic on Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary Shoah (1985).
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Groundhog Day

by Ryan Gilbey

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 A new edition of a study of Harold Ramis's 1993 comedy Groundhog Day in the BFI Film Classics series.
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In The Mood For Love (Huayang Nianhua)

by Tony Rayns

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 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 next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. As they try to make sense of their partners'' behaviour, they also struggle to control their growing feelings for each other. Hailed by the press as ''the consummate unconsummated love story of the new millennium'', this film about desire repressed has become a firmly established classic of the twenty-first century. In his sharp and revealing analysis of In the Mood for Love, Tony Rayns draws on his considerable expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar-wai and his colleagues at production company Jet Tone during the film''s long and complicated genesis. He delivers a personal and highly original commentary on the film and its production, complete with insights into Wong''s idiosyncratic working methods and influences. He also places the film in the context of Wong''s other work, with sidelights on its place in Hong Kong cinema as a whole. This new edition features an afterword by the author, looking back on In the Mood for Love 25 years after its first release.
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In The Mood For Love (Huayang Nianhua)

by Tony Rayns

~~15,49€~~ 13,94€ 10% OFF

 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 next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. As they try to make sense of their partners'' behaviour, they also struggle to control their growing feelings for each other. Hailed by the press as ''the consummate unconsummated love story of the new millennium'', this film about desire repressed has become a firmly established classic of the twenty-first century. In his sharp and revealing analysis of In the Mood for Love, Tony Rayns draws on his considerable expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar-wai and his colleagues at production company Jet Tone during the film''s long and complicated genesis. He delivers a personal and highly original commentary on the film and its production, complete with insights into Wong''s idiosyncratic working methods and influences. He also places the film in the context of Wong''s other work, with sidelights on its place in Hong Kong cinema as a whole. This new edition features an afterword by the author, looking back on In the Mood for Love 25 years after its first release.
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Heat

by Nick James

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 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-knit criminal team; Pacino is Vincent Hanna, the haunted, driven cop determined to hunt him down. Boasting a series of meticulously orchestrated setpieces that underline Mann''s sense of scale and architecture, Heat also presents a rhapsody to Los Angeles, as Hanna closes in on his prey. For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Heat are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast. And while its vision of male teamwork is richly compelling it comes close to glorifying machismo. But these complexities only add to the interest of this hugely ambitious and accomplished film, which confirmed Mann''s place in the front rank of American film-makers. In his afterword to this new edition, published to coincide with the film''s 30th anniversary, Nick James reflects upon its lasting impact and on Michael Mann''s subsequent film-making career.
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Heat

by Nick James

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 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-knit criminal team; Pacino is Vincent Hanna, the haunted, driven cop determined to hunt him down. Boasting a series of meticulously orchestrated setpieces that underline Mann''s sense of scale and architecture, Heat also presents a rhapsody to Los Angeles, as Hanna closes in on his prey. For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Heat are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast. And while its vision of male teamwork is richly compelling it comes close to glorifying machismo. But these complexities only add to the interest of this hugely ambitious and accomplished film, which confirmed Mann''s place in the front rank of American film-makers. In his afterword to this new edition, published to coincide with the film''s 30th anniversary, Nick James reflects upon its lasting impact and on Michael Mann''s subsequent film-making career.
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People On Sunday (Menschen Am Sonntag)

by Jon Hughes

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 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 Italian Neorealism and the New Wave cinemas of the 1960s, and set the template for ''indie'' filmmaking as we now know it. This is the first study in English of this multi-faceted film, which not only launched the careers of renowned filmmakers, but which continues to influence contemporary culture, with references to it in popular television (Babylon Berlin), a playful remake, and a new score by experimental pop group Múm. Jon Hughes'' study places the film in its historical context - Berlin in the Weimar Republic - and untangles the fascinating story of the making of People on Sunday, drawing on new archival research to challenge some of the misconceptions that surround it. Hughes provides fresh interpretations of the film''s depiction of space and its play with contemporary gender and sexual politics, and situates it within both Weimar cinema and the later output of the filmmakers.
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Black Girl (La Noire De...)

by Vlad Dima

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 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 brilliant, blistering debut. Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M''Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world. Vlad Dima''s study of Black Girl argues that the film helped to map the future of African cinema. He situates it within its postcolonial context, considering its adaptation from the eponymous short story first published in 1962. He examines the performances of Mbissine Thérèse Diop (Diouana), Anne-Marie Jelinek (Madame) and Robert Fontaine (Monsieur), considering the ways in which they embody or subvert postcolonial, French archetypes, and then goes on to examine the technical aspects of Sembene''s filmmaking, such as his innovative use of framing and aural composition. Finally, he traces the film''s lasting influence on African cinema, from Sembène''s own Xala (1975), to Safi Faye''s Mossane (1996), Joseph Gaï Ramaka''s Karmen Geï (2001), Jean-Pierre Bekolo''s Saignantes (2005), and Mati Diop''s Atlantics (2019).
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Black Girl (La Noire De...)

by Vlad Dima

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 A study of Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl (La noire de...)(1966), a seminal work of African cinema, in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Riddles Of The Sphinx

by Kimberly Lamm

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 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, as she confronts the complex politics of motherhood, domestic labour and work. With a kaleidoscopic array of cinematic techniques and poetic devices, the film charts Louise''s process as she questions her place within white patriarchal culture and finds her voice within the burgeoning Women''s Liberation Movement. Reading Riddles as an essay film, Kimberly Lamm explores how it utilises voice, sound and writing to challenge Hollywood''s dominant images of women and to portray maternal care as a legitimate form of work, rich in aesthetic pleasures and feminist possibilities. She examines the voice of the Sphinx, and, connecting it to feminism''s engagement with psychoanalysis, argues that Mulvey and Wollen''s film works-through long histories of patriarchal viewing practices and creates conditions in which the full range of women''s voices can be listened to, heard and valued. Lamm explores how Riddles, the second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, drew inspiration from Wollen''s influential work on ''counter-cinema'' and Mulvey''s foundational writing on ''the male gaze''.
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Riddles Of The Sphinx

by Kimberly Lamm

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 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, as she confronts the complex politics of motherhood, domestic labour and work. With a kaleidoscopic array of cinematic techniques and poetic devices, the film charts Louise''s process as she questions her place within white patriarchal culture and finds her voice within the burgeoning Women''s Liberation Movement. Reading Riddles as an essay film, Kimberly Lamm explores how it utilises voice, sound and writing to challenge Hollywood''s dominant images of women and to portray maternal care as a legitimate form of work, rich in aesthetic pleasures and feminist possibilities. She examines the voice of the Sphinx, and, connecting it to feminism''s engagement with psychoanalysis, argues that Mulvey and Wollen''s film works-through long histories of patriarchal viewing practices and creates conditions in which the full range of women''s voices can be listened to, heard and valued. Lamm explores how Riddles, the second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, drew inspiration from Wollen''s influential work on ''counter-cinema'' and Mulvey''s foundational writing on ''the male gaze''.
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When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki)

by Catherine Russell

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 A study of Mikio Naruse's 1960 melodrama, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, in the BFI Film Classics series.
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When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki)

by Catherine Russell

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 A study of Mikio Naruse's 1960 melodrama, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Wanda

by Elena Gorfinkel

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 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 wife and mother, electing instead to drift. Bracing in its realist texture and proto-feminist in its sensibility, it received critical acclaim upon release, winning the Critics'' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970. Today, Wanda is considered one of the most notable films made by a woman director and a core work of American independent cinema. Elena Gorfinkel''s study of this singular film traces Loden''s creative process and unconventional approach to filmmaking. Drawing on archival sources, including scripts, interviews, production records, oral history, and previously unseen ephemera, she examines the film''s de-dramatised aesthetic, one that rebukes the artifice and "slickness" of Hollywood. Gorfinkel considers Loden''s craft in her framing of cinematic time, manipulation of gesture, voice, and posture, narrative ellipsis, and in her use of location and non-professional actors. Providing an account of Wanda''s exhibition and reception in the 1970s and after, she traces the film''s feminist legacies, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers, artists and writers.
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

by Anupama (Film Companion, India) Chopra

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 A new edition of Anupama Chopra's study of Aditya Chopra's romantic drama, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), in the BFI Film Classics series.
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Wanda

by Elena Gorfinkel

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 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 wife and mother, electing instead to drift. Bracing in its realist texture and proto-feminist in its sensibility, it received critical acclaim upon release, winning the Critics'' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970. Today, Wanda is considered one of the most notable films made by a woman director and a core work of American independent cinema. Elena Gorfinkel''s study of this singular film traces Loden''s creative process and unconventional approach to filmmaking. Drawing on archival sources, including scripts, interviews, production records, oral history, and previously unseen ephemera, she examines the film''s de-dramatised aesthetic, one that rebukes the artifice and "slickness" of Hollywood. Gorfinkel considers Loden''s craft in her framing of cinematic time, manipulation of gesture, voice, and posture, narrative ellipsis, and in her use of location and non-professional actors. Providing an account of Wanda''s exhibition and reception in the 1970s and after, she traces the film''s feminist legacies, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers, artists and writers.
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