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'Psycho' in the Shower: The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene
Jenny Diski writes:
If you’re an academic wanting to write a book about Psycho, you really need an angle. Philip Skerry has come up with 60 angles: the 49 shots that make up the ‘shower scene’ proper, from Marion’s feet stepping into the bathtub to the moment when Norman is hea...
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10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western
Maverick British director Alex Cox has had a lifelong interest in Spaghetti Westerns, and made them the subject of a book he wrote, but never published, while a graduate student in 1978. This new book, which borrows the title but little else from that ‘embarrassing tome’, is informed by 30 years ... See details
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema
Gilberto Perez writes:
He took issue with the most celebrated Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein. For Tarkovsky, time imprinted in the moving image is the lifeblood of cinema, and montage – quick, abrupt, assertive editing – breaks up its flow: ‘In Eisenstein’s films individual shots...
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Bambi vs. Godzilla
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In Bambi Vs. Godzilla, David Mamet, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, gives us an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a film-maker who has always played the game his own way.
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Beijing Bicycle
In Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle (2000) a stolen bike is the central motif for an exploration of class difference and economic change in contemporary China. A homage to Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thieves. See details
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Now available for the first time on DVD, Fassbinder’s monumental adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s novel is widely regarded as the director’s masterpiece. Franz Biberkopf, newly released from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter, resolves to go straight and to make a decent life for hims... See details
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The Bicycle Thieves
I Ladri di Biciclette (1948), Vittorio di Sica’s neorealist masterpiece, is set in Rome immediately after the end of the Second World War. Antonio Ricci is an unemployed worker who secures a job which needs a bicycle. But on his first day at work, the bicycle is stolen. Ricci and his son s... See details
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Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx’s moving story of the unexpected romantic and sexual bond that forms between two ranch-hands working as shepherds in the Wyoming mountains was turned by Ang Lee into one of the most talked-about films of recent years. That the original takes up less than 40 pages of what Hilary Mante... See details
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Buñuel Boxset
Buñuel, the leading cinematic exponent of Surrealism, was one of the most revered and influential film-makers of all time. This boxed set contains eight of his most important films – That Obscure Object of Desire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Diary of a Chambermaid<... See details
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The Cell
The Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Negri was arrested in 1979, charged with complicity in the terrorist campaign of the Red Brigades. Most of the charges against him were soon dropped for lack of evidence, but Negri was sentenced to 30 years in prison for ‘association and insurrection agains... See details
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Chris Marker: Memories of The Future
Emilie Bickerton writes: Catherine Lupton’s is the first complete study of Marker in English, and she has produced a succinct, comprehensive account of his work. The few physical descriptions we have of Marker conjure an image of a spaceman captivated by Earth. Resnais thought him a benign emissa... See details
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Christo si è fermato a Eboli
Carlo Levi was exiled to the remote Southern Italian region of Lucania in 1935 as a result of his Anti-Fascist activities. In Christ Stopped at Eboli he describes the extreme poverty of the region’s inhabitants, as well as their stubborn resilience and ingrained superstitions. In Frances... See details
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Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema
Katie Trumpener writes:
Susan Tegel, in Nazis and the Cinema, shows that these measures provided a framework for the making and showing of propaganda films. Roel vande Winkel and David Welch’s essay collection, Cinema and the Swastika, widens the picture much further. In...
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City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Cidade de Deus is the name of the favela or slum west of Rio de Janeiro where poet and novelist Paulo Lins grew up in the 1970s. This powerful novel, which brought him international fame, is in part the product of his own experience and in part the fruit of many years of meticul... See details