Groundhog Day - Ryan Gilbey (BFI Film Classics) Criterion 'The Hidden Fortress' Director: Akira

'The Hidden Fortress' Director: Akira Kurosawa (1958) BFI 4K Ultra HD  Japanese w/ English subtitles

chilling masterpiece penetrates the surface of an outwardly peaceful and puritanical society to reveal the malevolence and violence beneath

- Excerpts from Roy Andersson films

Felicity Jones

- A Norse Landscape featurette

Groundhog Day - Ryan Gilbey (BFI Film Classics) Criterion 'The Hidden Fortress' Director: Akira'Groundhog Day' by Ryan Gilbey (BFI Film Classics 112 page paperback) In this engaging study, Ryan Gilbey traces Harold Ramis' film's unlikely journey from Danny Rubin's speculative script, centred on a man condemned to eternity in a small town, to its transformation into a studio classic. Drawing on fresh interviews with Rubin, Gilbey explores the inspired casting of Murray and Andie MacDowell, the film's quietly radical structure, and the delicate