Fellinis La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its incorporation of real people, events and lifestyles...Daugiau...
Robert Altmans Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake of Vietnam, Watergate and a spate of poli...Daugiau...
Upon its release, John McTiernans Die Hard (1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the 100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Award nominations. Jon Lewiss study o...Daugiau...
Joan Micklin Silvers groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end...Daugiau...
The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Soon Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless housemaid, who drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy... Kim Ko-youngs 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Hous...Daugiau...
James Leggotts study of Billy Elliot (2000), a coming-of-age drama set against the bitter backdrop of the 1984-5 miners strike, examines the films peculiarities of tone, depiction of tensions over class and gender roles, and its portrayal of fami...Daugiau...
This study of Jaws (1975) examines how Steven Spielbergs breakout film not only redefined the thriller but also pioneered the summer blockbuster, cementing his reputation as a master filmmaker. Against the odds of a catastro...Daugiau...
Ousmane Sembčne 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 196...Daugiau...
Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Manns operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight-knit criminal team; Pacino is Vince...Daugiau...
Wong Kar-wais 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 d...Daugiau...
A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollens 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...Daugiau...
Billy Wilders 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 massacre in Chicago who then, disguise...Daugiau...
Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Lodens 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 miners wife and mother, electing instea...Daugiau...
Mikio Naruses 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 Tokyos Ginza district. Catherine Russells study of the...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
Justin Wyatts study of Robert Altmans 3 Women (1977) considers four distinct aspects of the film: the function of space and Altmans ability to guide the action through the careful unfolding of the mise-en-scene; the critique of social and sexual...Daugiau...
Mark Campbells study of The Parallax View (1974) situates the film within its historical moment of paranoia and delusional conspiracy, analyzing the ways in which it not only reflected its political and social contexts, but also actively constructe...Daugiau...
Directed 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. Gittes, a private eye who, despite his be...Daugiau...
Kiyoshi Kurosawas 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an X carved into their neck. Dominic Lash provides an in-depth...Daugiau...
Dana Polans compelling study of Steven Spielbergs Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) examines the films significance to New Hollywood cinema and the science fiction genre. He argues that it is a film that is an allegory of films; it both n...Daugiau...
![In the Mood for Love (Huayang Nianhua): [ Huayang Nianhua] 2nd edition](https://d33318exxque5k.cloudfront.net/covers/medium/978183/9781839028281.1734667492.jpg)
