Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) Animation One of the greats -

One of the greats - funny

A Hollywood Production in Clones

Includes a 125 minute documentary on the director's eleven year process to get the film made

Claire Denis

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow

Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) Animation One of the greats -'Seven Samurai' by Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics paperback) A celebratory study of Kurosawa's film from a writer with expertise in Japanese cinema and history. Mellen contextualises the film both in Japanese cinema and Kurosawa's career while exploring the story's roots in medieval history. She explores the masterful use of visual language to create an elegiac work.