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Kafka on screen: the trials and metamorphoses of Kafkaesque cinema | BFI Cory Hardrict, Medium Tv Show, Karlovy Vary, Anthony Perkins, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Orson Welles, The Cinema, Technology Fashion
Cory Hardrict
Medium Tv Show
Karlovy Vary
Anthony Perkins
Franz Kafka
Rainer Maria Rilke
Orson Welles
The Cinema
Technology Fashion
Kafka on screen: the trials and metamorphoses of Kafkaesque cinema
Kafka on screen: the trials and metamorphoses of Kafkaesque cinema | BFI
a group of people standing around each other in front of a soldier holding a baby
Rome Open City
Italian Neorealism
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani
Mike Nichols
Cartoon Expression
Michelangelo Antonioni
Citizen Kane
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini’s great leap for realism on screen
A lightning bolt or a melodrama “full of old ingredients”? How Roberto Rossellini’s wartime drama Rome, Open City became a line-in-the-sand moment for world cinema.
Ultra Culture founder Charlie Lyne talks about the passion for post-Clueless American teen movies that fuelled his 2014 Kickstarter-funded documentary tribute. #Y2K Todd Solondz, American High School, American Teen, Teen Movies, Film School, Film History, Teen Life, James Dean, The Breakfast Club
Todd Solondz
American High School
American Teen
Teen Movies
Film School
Film History
Teen Life
James Dean
The Breakfast Club
Beyond Clueless: a golden age of the American teen movie
Ultra Culture founder Charlie Lyne talks about the passion for post-Clueless American teen movies that fuelled his 2014 Kickstarter-funded documentary tribute. #Y2K
a man sitting in the driver's seat of a car wearing a baseball cap
Neighborhood Signs
Cowboy Films
Francis Coppola
John Singleton
New Jack City
Boyz N The Hood
Best Director
Black Actors
Boyz n the Hood: 15 ways its 24-year-old director made his mark
Boyz to man… How John Singleton turned heads with his scorching 1991 debut Boyz n the Hood, which made him the youngest filmmaker ever to be Oscar-nominated as best director.
a black and white photo with the words playing the fool, the piercing women of clowning
Drawing On Photographs
Alexander Stewart
Serious Questions
Silent Comedy
Gallery Display
National Archives
Status Quo
Playing the fool: the pioneering women of clowning
Drawing on the BFI National Archive’s rich treasure-trove of photographs, we present the earliest years of film as those of experimentation, adventure and, frequently, laughter. Silent comedy was championed by scores of women who saw it as an opportunity to take on anarchic and subversive characters. Then, as now, comedy offered an opportunity to challenge the status quo, and to position serious questions behind a smile.