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Product Description
Highly influential in cinema history, the Free Cinema movement not only reinvented documentary in the 1950s but also spearheaded the British New Wave of social-realist feature films. This three-disk collection has brought together the films that represent the best of Free Cinema. Some were shot on a shoestring budget with a 16mm Bolex by first time directors such as Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson (Momma Don t Allow), while others were more ambitious 35mm featurettes, including those by Lindsay Anderson (Every Day Except Christmas) and Karel Reisz (We Are the Lambeth Boys).
Disc 3 offers a 43-minute documentary with a special collection of rarely seen films made in the spirit of Free Cinema, as well as interviews, clips, and previously unpublished stills.
Films included are: O Dreamland (1953), Refuge England (1959), One Potato, Two Potato (1957), Momma Don t Allow (1956), Enginemen (1959), March to Aldermaston (1959), Together (1956), We Are the Lambeth Boy (1959), The Vanishing Street (1962), Wakefield Express (1952), Food for a Blush(1959), Tomorrow s Saturday (1962),
Nice Time (1957), Gala Day (1963),
The Singing Street (1952), Small Is Beautiful (2006), Every Day Except Christmas (1957)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #105962 in DVD
- Brand: FACETS VIDEO
- Released on: 2007-11-27
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 3
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Running time: 475 minutes
Features
- Like Italian neorealism before and the French New Wave after, the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s was dedicated to the belief that film should be a tool for personal expression, reflecting contemporary life, and inspiring social change. In other words, "Watch your back, bourgeois commercial cinema!" As compiled by the BFI, this collection brings together 16 short and feature film
