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James Leggott
Billy Elliot

BFI Film Classics

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the UK miners' strike (1984-5), Billy Elliot (2000) follows eleven-year-old Billy as he pursues his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. Hailed for its heartfelt portra…

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Vlad Dima
Black Girl (La Noire de...)

BFI Film Classics

Ousmane Sembène 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…

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Jon Lewis
Die Hard

BFI Film Classics

Upon its release, John McTiernan'sDie 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 Awar…

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Matthew Tinkcom
Grey Gardens

BFI Film Classics

The Maysles brothers' documentary film Grey Gardens (1975) chronicles the everyday lives of two eccentric upper-class women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith. The film has gained the status of cul…

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Youngmin Choe
Hanyo (The Housemaid)

BFI Film Classics

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy. The d…

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Nick James
Heat

BFI Film Classics

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight…

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Julia Wagner
Hester Street

BFI Film Classics

Joan Micklin Silver's 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 i…

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Tony Rayns
In the Mood for Love (Huayang Nianhua)

BFI Film Classics

Wong Kar-wai's 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 …

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Lalitha Gopalan
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)

BFI Film Classics

Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti (Waheed…

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Barbara Mennel
Mädchen in Uniform

BFI Film Classics

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that defied established societal norms, showcasing the power of women, both behind and in front of the camera.Adapted from Christ…

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Heather Hendershot
Nashville

BFI Film Classics

Robert Altman's 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 Vi…

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Jon Hughes
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)

BFI Film Classics

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 It…

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Dana Polan
Pulp Fiction

BFI Film Classics

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and full of…

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Glyn Davis
Rebel Without a Cause

BFI Film Classics

Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean), the ne…

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Kimberly Lamm
Riddles of the Sphinx

BFI Film Classics

A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, a…

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Steven Cohan
Some Like It Hot

BFI Film Classics

Billy Wilder's 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 massa…

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Lucas Hilderbrand
The 'Before' Trilogy

BFI Film Classics

In Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a magical ni…

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Elena Gorfinkel
Wanda

BFI Film Classics

Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's 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 miner's…

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Catherine Russell
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)

BFI Film Classics

Mikio Naruse's 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 Tokyo's Ginza district.Cather…

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