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BFI Film Classics

BFI Film Classics is a series of finely written, illustrated books that introduce, interpret and celebrate landmark films of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s ‘classic’ status, together with a discussion of it’s production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of it’s technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author’s personal response to the film. The BFI Film Classics series now includes titles previously published separately in the BFI Film Classics and the BFI Modern Classics Series.

Editorial Advisory Board:

Geoff Andrew, Edward Buscombe, Lalitha Gopalan, Lee Grieveson, Nick James, Laura Mulvey, Dana Polan, B. Ruby Rich, Amy Villarejo and Zhen Zhang

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	La Grande Illusion BFI Film Classics Julian Jackson British Film Institute Jean Renoir's 1937 film La Grande Illusion is set during the First World War, but its themes of Franco-German conflict, divided loyalties in a time of war and...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Bigamist BFI Film Classics Amelie Hastie British Film Institute Amelie Hastie’s study of The Bigamist (1953) directed by and starring Ida Lupino, shows how the film combines elements of noir and melodrama to tell the story...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures BFI Film Classics Michael Berry British Film Institute Michael Berry’s study of Jia Zhang-ke’s masterful trio of films, The Hometown Trilogy, offers a fascinating insight into the cinematic world of one of...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Detour BFI Film Classics Noah Isenberg British Film Institute Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) has recently earned...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Spirited Away BFI Film Classics Andrew Osmond British Film Institute Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan’s most successful film, and one of the top-grossing ‘foreign language’ films...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Ratcatcher BFI Film Classics Annette Kuhn British Film Institute The film-maker Lynne Ramsay has been hailed as one of the finest new talents in world cinema, and Ratcatcher, her first feature, has attracted international...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Night of the Living Dead BFI Film Classics Ben Harvey British Film Institute George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential horror films of all time. Shot on a low budget on...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Cleo de 5 a 7 BFI Film Classics Steven Ungar British Film Institute Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Varda’s classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	8 1/2 BFI Film Classics D.A. Miller British Film Institute Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The hero, a...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Amores Perros BFI Film Classics Paul Julian Smith British Film Institute Amores Perros (2000) speaks to an international audience while never oversimplifying its local culture. This study of this film opens up that culture,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Apu Trilogy BFI Film Classics Philip Kemp British Film Institute Released between 1955 and 1959, the three films that became known as Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy" introduced a major new filmmaking talent to the world. Based...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Night Mail BFI Film Classics Scott Anthony British Film Institute Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved and best-known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Big Lebowski BFI Film Classics J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters British Film Institute Since its release nearly ten years ago, The Big Lebowski has become a cult classic with a worldwide following, having survived the baffled reaction of many...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	City Lights BFI Film Classics Charles J. Maland British Film Institute In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told an interviewer, "I think I like City Lights the best of all my films." Speaking of the film's famous ending, James Agee wrote...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Thin Red Line BFI Film Classics Michel Chion British Film Institute The Thin Red Line (1998) is only the third film directed by Terrence Malick, the maverick genius of American cinema, in his thirty-year career. Set during the...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Matrix BFI Film Classics Joshua Clover British Film Institute The Matrix (1999) was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American Zeitgeist, and a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Lawrence of Arabia BFI Film Classics Kevin Jackson British Film Institute Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made--though more often by film goers and filmmakers than by critics. This study...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Distant Voices, Still Lives BFI Film Classics Paul Farley British Film Institute Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Modern Times BFI Film Classics Joan Mellen British Film Institute Modern Times (1936) was Charlie Chaplin's last full-length silent film, and also his last appearance as the Tramp, probably the most recognizable figure in...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Los Olvidados BFI Film Classics Mark Polizzotti British Film Institute Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. Set in the slums of Mexico City, it follows the crime-filled and violent...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Bombay BFI Film Classics Lalitha Gopalan British Film Institute In January 1993 sectarian rioting left two thousand Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil filmBombay (1995)...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Fear Eats the Soul: ("Angst Essen Seele Auf") BFI Film Classics Laura Cottingham British Film Institute In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (1974) an aging cleaning woman, Emmi (Brigitte Mira), marries a much younger, immigrant Moroccan mechanic, Ali...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Groundhog Day BFI Film Classics Ryan Gilbey British Film Institute It is becoming clearer and clearer that Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. One of the first...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	On the Waterfront BFI Film Classics Leo Braudy British Film Institute "I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody." So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod...

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