‘Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema’ Captures the Changes in Britain’s Fortunes
Social realist films would spearhead the so-called British New Wave and Woodfall Films produced some of the New Wave's best and most enduring examples of the form.
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Tony Richardson’s ‘Tom Jones’ Turns the “Angry Young Men” Art Movement on Its Head
For the titular Tom and those of the "angry young men" art movement, all the world is a courtroom, judging and evaluating them, condemning them to a life they would not choose. It just so happens that Tom enjoys his captivity.
A Sensitive Cinematic Look at the Life of a Working Class English Girl
Shelagh Delaney was a rare female voice among the “angry young men” of '50s and '60s British literature, and wrote the play based on her own experiences growing up in Salford.
Rock’s Bad Boy Mick Jagger Is Not Bad Enough for ‘Ned Kelly’
Tony Richardson’s 1970 Down Under biopic Ned Kelly provides lovingly filmed scenery–and Mick Jagger–but he seldom seems to be the “wild colonial boy”.
Taking Evelyn Waugh for a Sixties Spin
Evelyn Waugh-inspired The Loved One and Decline and Fall of a Bird Watcher perfectly captures Waugh’s tone of cruel, facetious, and lunatic whimsies.