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Alien by Roger Luckhurst
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst ex ...Show more
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean 'cult' movie that nevertheless has recognisable stars and was broadly ...Show more
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the film's ensemble cast, including Lee himself, brilliantly play out the edgy negotiations and dramas of a r ...Show more
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo) by D. A. Miller
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
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 film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini's mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself. Whether attacked for ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Often hailed as the 'best' James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963) is celebrated for its direction by Terence Young, memorable performances from Sean Connery in his second outing as 007, Pedro Armendáriz as Kerim, Lotte Lenya as the lesbian villain Colonel Rosa Klebb, and Robert Shaw as Red Grant, ...Show more
Grave of the Fireflies by Alex Dudok de Wit
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds ...Show more
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Frank 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 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own ...Show more
Lost in Translation by Suzanne Ferriss
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an uncertain professional future, while Bob Harris (Bill Murray), an established celebrity, questions his choices ...Show more
M by Anton Kaes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
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 wit ...Show more
Mean Streets by Demetrios Matheou
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative friends ...Show more
Rushmore by Kristi Irene McKim
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic coming-of-age story wrapped in comedy drama, Rushmore focuses on the efforts of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman)-a ...Show more