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Peter Kr�mer

Editura: British Film Institute

Stanley 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 ...

Julian Baggini

Editura: British Film Institute

On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a ...

Steven Ungar

Editura: British Film Institute

Cl o de 5 7 (Cl o from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cl o, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical ...

Colin Maccabe

Editura: British Film Institute

Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio ...

Michael Newton

Editura: British Film Institute

Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant ...

Andrew Osmond

Editura: 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 ever released. Set in ...

J. M. Tyree

Editura: British Film Institute

Ethan and Joel Coen's The Big Lebowski was released in 1998 to general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a cult classic and remains so over 20 years later, inspiring a ...

Camille Paglia

Editura: British Film Institute

Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first ...

Hideaki Fujiki

Editura: British Film Institute

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, ...

Greil Marcus

Editura: British Film Institute

It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood, film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an ...

Richard Deming

Editura: British Film Institute

Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and ...