Wednesday, December 9, 2009

New for 2010.....2001: A Space Odyssey & Sweet Smell of Success


2001: A Space Odyssey
by Peter Kramer
ISBN - 1844572862




Sweet Smell of Success
by James Naremore
ISBN - 1844572889

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Back To The Future - 2010

Back To The Future
by Andrew Shail & Robin Stoate
ISBN - 1844572935

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Bringing Up Baby - in 2010?

....its now listed on Palgrave Macmillan BFI site....

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

New For 2009 ? - Night and the City

Night and the City
by Andrew Pulver
ISBN - 1844572803

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

New For 2009 - The Godfather


The Godfather
by Jon Lewis
ISBN - 1844572927

Monday, March 9, 2009

New For 2009 - Star Wars - La Grande Illusion - Gilda

Star Wars
by Will Brooker
ISBN - 1844572773
La Grande Illusion
by Julian Jackson
ISBN - 1844572854
Gilda
by Melyn Stokes
ISBN - 1844572846

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Bringing Up Baby?????

I dont know whats going on with this title....

It was suppost to come out in 05...and thur my searching...I found a new cover and a new-old release date 1/22/2008...and I dont think it was published even then...the mystery continues.

Amazon Link

New


Old

2005?? 2008??
Bringing Up Baby
By Peter Swaab
ISBN - 1844570703

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

No News....

No new announcements from BFI in a while.....

Thought I would just check in let you know I'm still on the job.

Thanks for visiting.

john

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

British Film Institute Film Classics 2-Volume Set

I was unaware of this 2 volume collection of the first 50 BFI Film Classics monographs



British Film Institute Classics 2-Volume Set The Best of International Cinema (1916 - 1981)

Edited By Rob White

This was published in 2002

Contents
(Complete list of films featured with year of release and the name of the author of each article.)

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - 1920 - David Robinson
Greed - 1924 - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Napoléon - 1927 - Nelly Kaplan
Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans - 1927 - Lucy Fischer
Blackmail - 1929 - Tom Ryall
L’Âge d’or - 1930 - Paul Hammond
M - 1931 - Anton Kaes
Boudu Saved from Drowning - 1932 - Richard Boston
42nd Street - 1933 - J. Hoberman
Queen Christina - 1933 - Marcia Landy & Amy Villarejo
It’s a Gift - 1934 - Simon Louvish
L’Atalante - 1934 - Marina Warner
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935 - Alberto Manguel
Things to Come - 1936 - Christopher Frayling
Pépé le Moko - 1937 - Ginette Vincendeau
Olympia - 1938 - Taylor Downing
Stagecoach - 1939 - Edward Buscombe
The Wizard of Oz - 1939 - Salman Rushdie
Citizen Kane - 1941 - Laura Mulvey
The Magnificent Ambersons - 1942 - V.F. Perkins
The Palm Beach Story - 1942 - John Pym
Went the Day Well? - 1942 - Penelope Houston
Cat People - 1943 - Kim Newman
"Fires Were Started –" - 1943 - Brian Winston
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - 1943 - A.L. Kennedy
Double Indemnity - 1944 - Richard Schickel
Meet Me in St. Louis - 1944 - Gerald Kaufman
Brief Encounter - 1945 - Richard Dyer
Les Enfants du Paradis - 1945 - Jill Forbes
The Big Sleep - 1946 - David Thomson
The Ghost and Mrs Muir - 1947 - Frieda Grafe
Odd Man Out - 1947 - Dai Vaughan
Gun Crazy - 1950 - Jim Kitses
In a Lonely Place - 1950 - Dana Polan
Singin’ in the Rain - 1951 - Peter Wollen
High Noon - 1952 - Phillip Drummond
Shane - 1952 - Edward Countryman & Evonne von Heussen-Countryman
The Big Heat - 1953 - Colin McArthur
The Seventh Seal - 1956 - Melvyn Bragg
Wild Strawberries - 1957 - Philip & Kersti French
L’avventura - 1960 - Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Rocco and His Brothers - 1960 - Sam Rohdie
Lolita - 1961 - Richard Corliss
An Actor’s Revenge - 1962 - Ian Breakwell
The Birds - 1963 - Camille Paglia
Performance - 1970 - Colin MacCabe
La Nuit américaine - 1973 - Roger Crittenden
Chinatown - 1974 - Michael Eaton
Taxi Driver - 1976 - Amy Taubin
Annie Hall - 1977 - Peter Cowie

Thursday, August 14, 2008

News - 8/14/08 - Bicycle Thieves - for 08?

Out of nowhere, another BFI Film Classic book show up on Amazon for a 2008 release.
Bicycle Thieves
By Robert S. C. Gordon
ISBN - 1844572382