Posts Tagged ‘Classic’

Film: Les Enfants du Paradis at the BFI

9 Dec - 5 Jan 2012. See website for exact screening times

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Marcel Carné’s 1945 film about life and the love affairs among the actors and mimes, villains and aristocrats of Paris’s Boulevard de Crime in the early 19th Century is sublime, and one of those films that is often on those… Continue reading

Film: a Max Ophüls gem at the BFI

12-28 Feb

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It’s not often you get to see this Max Ophüls (the filmmakers’ filmmaker) masterpiece on the big screen. Letter From an Unknown Woman is a 1948 film based on the Stefan Zweig novella and is hailed as one of the

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Film: Tokyo Story at the BFI

Daily; see website for details

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Tokyo Story is the star film of the Yasujiro Ozu season at the BFI. The Japanese director and scriptwriter is recognized as one of cinema’s great masters, and the 1953 film, Tokyo Story is arguably his greatest work. It’s not… Continue reading