20 Years of BFI Film Classics
Published: 9 July 2012The British Film Institute launched its popular series of compact ‘BFI Classics’ guides devoted to seminal films twenty years ago.
The BFI Film Classics range is a series of expertly written and well illustrated books that honour landmark films of world cinema. The series includes a wide range of approaches and critical styles, reflecting the diverse ways we appreciate, analyse and enjoy great films.
To celebrate, 20th anniversary editions of eleven of the books are being re-released on 1 August with new introductions and specially-designed covers, with a new title added: Victor Perkins’ new guide to Jean Renoir’s La Regle du jeu (Rules of the Game).
Blade Runner (2nd edition)
by Scott Bukatman
Citizen Kane (2nd edition)
by Laura Mulvey
Il conformista (The Conformist)
by Chris Wagstaff
Don’t Look Now (2nd edition)
by Mark Sanderson
Metropolis (2nd edition)
By Thomas Elsaesser
La Regle du jeu (Rules of the Game)
by V.F. Perkins
Singin’ in the Rain
By Peter Wollen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by Eric Smoodin
Taxi Driver (2nd edition)
by Amy Taubin
Vertigo (2nd edition)
by Charles Barr
Went the Day Well? (2nd edition)
by Penelope Houston
The Wizard of Oz (2nd edition)
by Salman Rushdie
For further information, including details on the complete range of books, visit the BFI filmstore at: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/