Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Napoleon: Abel Gance’s Classic Film | 1982 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 2 | The Seventh Seal | 1993 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 3 | L’Atalante | 1993 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 4 | It’s a Gift | 1994 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 5 | Things to Come | 1995 | Sarah Kozloff | N/A |
| 6 | The Big Sleep | 1997 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 7 | The Thing | 1997 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 8 | The Birds | 1998 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 9 | Crash | 1999 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 10 | Sanshô Dayû | 1999 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 11 | Titanic | 2000 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 12 | Belle de Jour | 2001 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 13 | The Manchurian Candidate | 2002 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 14 | The Exorcist | 2003 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 15 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 2003 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 16 | The Matrix | 2004 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 17 | City Lights | 2007 | Sarah Kozloff | N/A |
| 18 | Ratcatcher | 2008 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 19 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 2010 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 20 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 2011 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 21 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 2011 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 22 | Caché | 2012 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 23 | Spirited Away | 2014 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 24 | The Shawshank Redemption | 2019 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 25 | The Silence of the Lambs | 2019 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 26 | Silent Running | 2019 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 27 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 2020 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 28 | The Big Lebowski | 2020 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
| 29 | Fear Eats the Soul | 2020 | Sarah Kozloff | Buy |
The BFI Film Classics series is a long-running academic publishing project from the British Film Institute. Each slim volume focuses on a single film, offering close analysis of its themes, techniques, and cultural impact. The 29 volumes listed here cover a wide range, from The Seventh Seal (1993) and L’Atalante (1993) through The Shawshank Redemption (2019) and The Big Lebowski (2020).
The series includes books on horror (The Exorcist, The Thing), science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix), animation (Spirited Away), and drama (The Best Years of Our Lives, Kind Hearts and Coronets). Each book is written by a different scholar, and the series has become a standard reference for film students and cinephiles.