“LOOK BACK IN ANGER”: British Cinema, 1950-2007
Protest
and the cry of anger and indignation have been central in British cinema since
(at least) the 1930s, from experimental documentaries to today’s cinematography,
where the working class, the homeless and unemployed – even angrier
than in the past – still find a representative place of their own. The
retrospective will account for the history of British cinema from the famous
50s – with early short films by Anderson, Richardson and Reisz, and
genre-films addressing most urgent social issues – to free cinema, from
the decadence of national cinema to the powerful emergence of television (with
early works by Loach and Monty Python). It will then explore the “Renaissance”
of the early 80s, and the subsequent representations of anger in the working
class and the social fringes. The retrospective will include more than 20
films – more or less rigorous, or à-la-mode, from Frears to Jarman,
from Leigh to Boyle, Jordan, and Boorman – accounting for the notoriously
sharp British social consciousness.
In cooperation with London British Film Institute.
The films:
O Dreamland (1953, 12' ) by Lindsay Anderson
Momma Don’t Allow (1955, 22' ) by Tony Richardson e Karel Reisz
Yield to the Night (1956, 99') by Jack Lee Thompson
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960, 89') by Karel Reisz
Victim (1961, 96') by Basil Dearden
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, 104') by Tony Richardson
Billy Liar (1963, 98') by John Schlesinger
The Leather Boys (1963, 108’) by Sidney J. Furie
The Servant (1963, 112') by Joseph Losey
Tom Jones (1963, 128') by Tony Richardson
Cathy, Come Home (1966, 75’) by Ken Loach
Georgy Girl (1966, 98’) by Silvio Narizzano
Morgan, a Suitable Case for Treatment (97') by Karel Reisz
The Ruling Class (1972, 154') by Peter Medak
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983, 107') by Terry Jones
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987, 101’) by Stephen Frears
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1986, 93') di Alan Clarke
High Hopes (1988, 112') by Mike Leigh
The Last of England (1988, 87') by Derek Jarman
The Crying Game (1992, 112') by Neil Jordan
Raining Stones (1993, 90') by Ken Loach
Brassed Off (1996, 107') by Mark Herman
Trainspotting (1996, 94') by Danny Boyle
24 7: TwentyFourSeven (1997, 96') by Shane Meadows
Orphans (1997, 101’) by Peter Mullan
The General (1998, 124’) by John Boorman
