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Planes on Film: Ten Favourite Aviation Films

By Colin M. Barron

Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space

By Arun Mukherjee

Barry Norman's 100 Best Films of the Century

By Barry Norman

A Midsummer Night's Dream

By Jay Halio

"Apu" Trilogy

Movie Mistakes

By Jon Sandys

Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939

By Colin Crisp, C G Crisp

My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film

By Various, Stephen Lowenstein

Movie Monsters

A History of Experimental Film and Video

By A.L. Rees

The Filmmaker Says

By Jamie Thompson Stern

Images : My Life in Film

By Ingmar Bergman

Euro Noir

By Barry Forshaw

The Alfred Hitchcock Story

By Ken Mogg, Janet Leigh

Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film

By Melissa Thackway

African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent

By Josef Gugler

The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg

By William Beard

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

By Bruce Campbell

Once More, With Feeling: How we tried to make the greatest porn film ever

By Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Projections 9

By John Boorman

Projections 8

By John Boorman

Jean Renoir

By Andre Bazin

Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter,Joey & the last great showbix party: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party

By Levy, Shawn, Shawn Levy

Macbeth

By Kathleen E. McKluskie

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman

The Language of New Media

By Lev Manovich (City University of New York)

Diary of a Young Soul Rebel

By Isaac Julien, Colin MacCabe

The Film Sense

By Sergei Eisenstein

Reel To Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

By Bell Hooks (Berea College, USA)