Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) Russia 'Lady Bird' Director: Greta Gerwig

'Lady Bird' Director: Greta Gerwig (2018) Includes audio commentary

Miranda Richardson

Robert Shaw

'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' Director: John Huston (1948) includes commentary and documentary

Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen (BFI Film Classics) Russia 'Lady Bird' Director: Greta Gerwig'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.