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Greed Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851703589
SciFier: $16.28Greed was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork, but his immense plans were his undoing. This volume, reconstructs the history of the film. Each volume in the BFI Film Classics series contains... -
La Regle du jeu NA NA 9780851709659
SciFier: $16.28Renoir's famous and controversial comedy of manners has a troubled history. Victor Perkins presents here a sensitive socio-historical study of Renoir's revised edition of the film, released 20 years... -
The Shawshank Redemption by Mark Kermode (writer and broadcaster, Hampshire, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78How 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... -
Tokyo Story by Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.86This BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro's masterpiece. Ozu's moving family drama is universally acknowledged... -
Film Freak Christopher Fowler 9780857501790
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.54It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the... -
Pinewood: The Story of an Iconic Studio by Bob McCabe
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $44.33For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: 'Made at... -
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. ... -
The Searchers by Edward Buscombe (film critic, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28John 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 influence on many of America's most distinguished... -
L'Atalante by Marina Warner
SciFier: $22.52L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics'... -
2001: A Space Odyssey by Peter Kramer (University of East Anglia, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and... -
Quatermass and the Pit by Kim Newman
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship - and Professor Quatermass of the British Rocket Group... -
Pulp Fiction by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.89Pulp 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... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.05Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the... -
The Exorcist by Mark Kermode (writer and broadcaster, Hampshire, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.05Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was... -
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Dead Man Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851708065 [USED COPY]
SciFier: $13.32When it was released, "Dead Man" puzzled many audiences and critics. Here, the author argues that the film is both a quantum leap and a logical step in the director's career, and it's a film that... -
Seven by Richard Dyer (King's College London, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78David 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... -
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge Anupama Chopra (Film Companion, India) 9781839028328
SciFier: $16.28Aditya Chopra's 1995 romantic drama, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, follows the journey of Raj and Simran, who fall in love on a trip to Europe but must fight societal expectations as Simran is... -
Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.82The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
The Godfather by Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and... -
Some Like It Hot by Steven Cohan (Syracuse University, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.89Billy 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... -
Sunrise by Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love... -
L'Age d'or by Paul Hammond (writer, painter, translator, Barcelona, Spain)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Age d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surrealist masterpiece - a uniquely savage blend of... -
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey, Film historian and screenwriter, UK (film historian and screenwriter, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.86George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir (The Cooper Union, New York, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Luchino 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... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
SciFier: $16.28Richard Schickel study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee (Independent scholar, Pune, India)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Mehboob Khan's 1957 epic family drama Mother India, starring movie legends Nargis, Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar, is a cornerstone of Indian cinema. In her insightful study of this classic,... -
Beau Travail Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781839027130
SciFier: $14.90Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within... -
Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen (Temple University, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that... -
Memories of Underdevelopment by Darlene J. Sadlier (Indiana University, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a classic of Cuban revolutionary culture, and is hailed as a prime example of a radical style of 1960s political filmmaking that became... -
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: $16.67SciFier: $13.02Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and... -
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki) by Professor Catherine Russell
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Mikio 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. ... -
Madchen in Uniform by Barbara Mennel
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play,... -
City Lights Charles J. Maland 9781844571758
SciFier: $16.28In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told, "I think I like "City Lights" the best of all my films." Based on archival research of Chaplin's production records, this work offers a history of the film's production... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum) by Julian Preece (Swansea University, UK)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German... -
The Birth of a Nation by Paul McEwan
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic underdogs, silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) is widely considered to be the most controversial film of all time. At once one of US culture's greatest... -
Chinatown by Michael Eaton
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $15.78Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Angeles of the 1930s. Jack Nicholson stars as J. J... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson (film critic and historian, San Francisco, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.87The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve... -
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) by Jon Hughes
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Directed 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... -
Thelma & Louise by Marita Sturken (New York University, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cinema on its release in... -
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) by Laura Cottingham (art critic, New York, USA)
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.28In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much...