Free cinema / British Film Institute.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994, Director.

Reisz, Karel., Director.

Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991, Director.

Mazzetti, Lorenza, 1927-2020, Director.

Goretta, Claude., Director.

Tanner, Alain., Director.

Vas, Robert., Director.

Grigsby, Michael., Director.

Russell, Elizabeth, 1916-2002, Director.

Daiken, Leslie., Director.

Irvin, John., Director.

British Film Institute, sponsoring institution..

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Facets Video (Firm), distributor.

Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Great Britain--Drama.

Working class.

Youth--Great Britain--Drama.

Youth.

Motion pictures--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Short films.

short subjects.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Short films -- Great Britain.

Documentary films.

Drama.

Short films.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

3 videodiscs (475 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([40] pages ; 19 cm)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia : Facets Video [distributor], ©2007.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, all regions; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Summary:

Free Cinema consisted of a group of young film-makers who decided to rebel against the stifling conformity of British cinema in the late fifties and to make their own films outside the confines of 'the system'. This 50th-anniversary compilation of short films about British working class life shows directors expressing personal viewpoints without obligation to subscribe to the technical or social conventions imposed on commercial film-making.

Contents:

disc 1. Free cinema 1. O Dreamland (12 min.) / director, Linday Anderson. Momma don't allow (22 min.) / directors, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson. Together (49 min.) / director, Lorenza Mazzetti, assisted by Denis Horne. Free cinema 3. Wakefield express (30 min.) / director, Lindsay Anderson. Nice time (17 min.) / directors, Claude Goretta, Alain Tanner. The singing street (30 min.) / directors, N. McIsaac, J.T.R. Ritchie, R. Townsend. Every day except Christmas (39 min.) / director, Lindsay Anderson

disc 2. Free cinema 6. Refuge England (27 min.) / director, Robert Vas. Enginemen (17 min.) / director, Michael Grigsby. We are the Lambeth boys (49 min.) / director, Karel Reisz. Food for a blush (30 min.) / director, Elizabeth Russell

disc 3. Beyond free cinema. One potato two potato (21 min.) / director, Leslie Daiken. March to Aldermaston (33 min.) The vanishing street (19 min.) / director, Robert Vas. Tomorrow's Saturday (17 min.) / director, Michael Grigsby. Gala day (25 min.) / director, John Irvin. Small is beautiful : the story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers.

Notes:

Collective title from DVD surface.

"Films that launched the British New Wave"--Container

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1565807065

9781565807068

OCLC:

184722027

Publisher Number:

736899112820

BFIVD717 British Film Institute

DV95158 Facets Video