1956, young film makers and critics founded British Free cinema Movement
Karel Reisz/ Lindsay Anderson John Fletcher Tony Richardson struggled to get their films shown in commercial circuits
joined together and had short doc films screen
"kitchen sink"films
free cinema movement led to British new wave which applies to series of films released 1959066
all called kitchen sink drama due to films depiction of grubby, gritty everyday life
based on plays and novels that centered on experience of aggressive and rebellious working class males " refereed to as "angry young men"
influenced by french new wave and Italian neo-realist films
shot in black and white, mainly unknown actors who used regional accents
films:
Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
Alfred Finney in Saturday night, Sunday morning
Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger
Tom Courtney in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A Taste of Honey clip "We're Bloody Marvelous!"
Future Influence
ground breaking for their depiction of northern working class characters bur generally focused on perspective of young white men
challenged in later decades by films that focused attention of the experience of women, homosexuals, and ethnic groups
from the mid 90s onward, The Full Monty, Nil by Mouth, Fish Tank addressed underclass cultures with stories about individuals and communities
Explain the influence of British New Wave on modern films.
Stories and characters are taken from the regions and lower classes of England rather than London-centric aristocrats. An emphasis on the drama in everyday life is preferable to genre story lines or tropes. The Full Monty 1997 focuses on out-of-work steel workers in the North who are trying to remain relevant and to bring in money by putting on a strip show for the town.
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