https://www2.bfi.org.uk/.../10-great-overlooked-british-horror-films-1970s Susannah York, Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men. Director: Jan 23, 2019 - The films, the actors, the scene... See more ideas about british films, actors, film. John Schlesinger Moira Shearer, After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law. Here We Go round the Mulberry Bush is a younger lad’s perspective of the swinging 60s. Director: Stars: Stars: A thoroughgoing examination of race, Joanna addresses first-generation immigration, discrimination, police brutality and interracial relationships. •. Drama. Pamela Franklin, Approved | Oskar Homolka, GP | | type to search. Artifice is the ribbon that ties it altogether; appropriate, for a decade fixated with surface. Michael Caine, A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its Governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. Alec McCowen, Not Rated | And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat? 96 min Harold Pinter, Approved Director: 1950s and 60s British Social Realism - YouTube. “All pink and slippery like a peeled shrimp,” he observes, before they sleep together. Alan Bates, Drama, Romance. With its suffocating close-ups and frenzied to-fro cutting, it provides a powerful argument that the predator lurks in culturally approved promiscuity. Joseph Losey Director: Julie Christie, Bryan Forbes By the mid-60s, all eyes were on London – the swinging capital of the world – where radical changes to social and sexual politics were fanned by a modern youth. Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda. Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Not Rated The Invasion of Foreign Cinema: Michelangelo Antonioni A rare thing among these films, Joanna tells its story without irony or detachment, immersing the viewer entirely in a London of two speeds: whirligig, on the one hand, and a Scott Walker-scored latitudinal on the other. | Tony Richardson | Peter Finch, It saw a surge in formal experimentation, freedom of expression, colour, and comedy. $0.00M, Not Rated Film followed, as the compass needle swung back away south to the capital. James Mason, Lester’s lion-training scene sees Nancy cornered in the whiteout spare room, subjected to a demonstration of the lodger’s whip-cracking competence with women. Hylda Baker, Not Rated Here are 10 of the best swinging London films that followed in its wake. | Still with teddies tucked in their beds, the girls are underprepared for the freedoms of sexually liberated London, and the bad sorts that shark its depths. Director: Millicent Martin, Richard Attenborough, Stars: | These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres.They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. $0.04M, Not Rated Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night (1964) – starring the Beatles at the height of their fame – has a hop-skip kinesis to fit the swinging 60s. Common to many of these films is the theme of escape: escape from the commotion and surfeit of the city into surrounding country or abroad. 129 min 119 min Wilfred Pickles, Drama, Thriller. Clive Donner Queenie Watts, Not Rated But Cammell, who knew Jagger and Anita Pallenberg personally, only painted what he saw. 126 min Jill Bennett, Director: But Marion’s not the only one. The longer he spends, the farther he gets from the facts of the event he witnessed but did not see behind the cover of his camera. 93 min | All rights reserved. Dennis Price, Unrated Drama, Romance. Whilst the pop music… It’s more than half a century since the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night helped put a swing in the step of 60s British cinema, heralding London’s emergence as the epicentre of hip fashion, art and music. Ken Loach Directors Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg delivered to Warner Bros not at all what they had asked for. 1950s and 60s British Social Realism. Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin. Explore the history of film in list form. John Comer, R | Noël Coward, Peter Collinson A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame. Maurice Dallimore, Passed Alan Bates, Director: Terence Stamp, ©2021 British Film Institute. Jennie Linden, Votes: 106 min Cinema of the United Kingdom; List of British films; 1888–1919; 1920s; 1920 1921 1922 … | Stars: Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business. Or is it because she has these things? Not until he goes with an older, well-heeled American (Shelley Winters) does Alfie get a taste of his own medicine. Clive Donner’s glossy coming-of-age comedy follows the exploits of sex-obsessed Jamie as he attempts to join the swinging 60s set and lose his virginity. | 17 year-old Joanna is cool, stylish and determined to start a new life as an art student in swinging London. Peter O'Toole, In the perfect “little hidey hole” at 81 Powis Square, Chas is better placed to lose himself than ever he expected. | Guy Green Martin Ritt 116 min | Here are the 100 best British films of all time. A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. (1974) Carry On Dick (1974) Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) The Great McGonagall (1974) Page 1 of 3 1 2 3. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. | After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Drama, History, War. Stars: | Votes: 455,724 | Gross: $0.28M. One could be forgiven for thinking Joanna as sticky-sweet as the blackberry jam that has leaked inside her suitcase, when she moves into a relative’s London home. Michael Craig, | | | Director: 2. Make Mine Mink (1960) Roger Livesey, | Stars: Stars: ... Rachel Roberts (1927–1980) (dual British and American citizenship) George Rose (1920–1988) Norman Rossington (1928–1999) Leonard Rossiter (1926–1984) Patricia Routledge (born … The Party’s Over (made in 1963 but held back by the BBFC until 1965) is less forgiving of its cortège of beatnik characters, who stew in their boredom and skulk a blackened London, cratered by the Blitz. James Fox, Tom Courtenay, | Buy Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush on DVD and Blu Ray. | Gross: 116 min Michael Caine, An exalted pop star holds the country’s youth in his thrall, but secretly his popularity is being carefully managed by the state. | Anna Massey, Alec Guinness, He’s fallen in love with Mary, who – woman of her time – wants none of it: “I’m not a nun, you know.”. Kim Stanley, Stars: | 109 min The sight of his lifeless baby moves Alfie, untypically, to tears, but – as he tritely puts it – “not for him – he was past it; for my bleeding self”. Michael Redgrave, | | $16.87M, Not Rated Bert Palmer, Votes: His imagination billows to fill in the blanks in the lead up to the film’s conclusion, when a mime-show tennis match proves the perceptual middle ground between seeing and believing. Bianca Sanches. Sign up. For East End wide boy Alfie Elkins (Michael Caine), a woman is a commodity. | Director: Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions. | Director: George Devine, Shelley Winters, A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. To offset his lodger’s womanising, naive landlord Colin (Michael Crawford) resolves to rent the spare room to a “steadying influence”. Director: Stars: Director: The social-realist ‘kitchen sink’ drama predominated in the late 50s and early 60s – films like Look Back in Anger (1959) and Room at the Top (1959) about ordinary people in the north of England and the hard grind of working-class life. Directed by Guy Hamilton, who would move on to gloss-coat colorific violence in his Bond movies of the 70s, it’s a black-and-white morality tale about the party-power of hot-blooded youth, whose volatility vents in suicide, partner-swapping and necrophilia. Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated. Rita Tushingham, I have this week been reading Stephen Glynn’s The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond, which offers an interesting overview of an important group of British films and provides a wealth of detail about the production and reception of these films, along with Glynn’s thoughts on their ideological implications. 114 min Votes: 3,461 | Gross: $16.87M. Directors Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. Nanette Newman, Stars: | Alfie’s cocksure narration to camera invests the character with a certain charm, even as he’s ’orribly chauvinist. Oliver Reed, Maxine Audley, Votes: Mona Washbourne, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966). 7,134 Stars: | A confronting film about masks, mirrors and the psychosis of identity, Performance is expressive of the free-falling freedom of the white man in the 60s. | Gross: Gordon Harker born in 1885 in London into a well-known family of theatrical artists, he first appeared on stage in 1903. The film’s jaunty opening song (which O’Hara hated for its glibness) paints London as a free-for-all promised land: “Where the parties and the boys are, where the music and the noise are.”. Back in his studio, making blow-ups of photographs of the incident, he tries to build a temporal narrative from sequential images – but the bigger picture won’t come. There is an element of truth in that, to be fair, but the conventional reading of British film history (basically: 30s - pre-history, 40s - war films, Ealing and David Lean, 50s - dull, 60s - New Wave and Swinging London, 70s - rubbish, 80s - renaissance) is so restrictive that it is amazing how long its basic elements have remained in place. Crime, Thriller. A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. | Gross: Director: | In Search of Gregory (1970) - Julie Christie. | Gross: Who starred as Cleopatra and married co-star Richard … score: 12 of 113 (11%) required scores: 1, 2, 6, 10, 17 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. 1. | Thriller. A British Agent is sent to East Berlin to receive a Communist defector, but the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated. As when he’s dabbling with Sheffield girl Annie (Jane Asher) – whose crying after sex sets him thinking, after he wheedles an apology from her: “Alfie, I said to myself, she’s as human as you are.”. But her outlook broadens over the course of the film, and even as of the beginning, we are typically off-balanced by the surreally violent visions of our heroine. 112 min Over one weekend, filled with parties, blossoming friendships and romantic encounters, two young women learn about life’s pleasures and pains in swinging London. Watch A Hard Day’s Night online on BFI Player, Watch The Pleasure Girls online on BFI Player, Watch The Party’s Over online on BFI Player, I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname (Michael Winner, 1967), The Magic Christian (Joseph McGrath, 1969), Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (Peter Whitehead, 1967). Susannah York, | Staring Sid James, Dick Emery. | 111 min | 101 min Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Albert Finney, Watch later. Comedy, Drama, Romance. A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices, she has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike. | Michael Caine, The 60s-set Faustian comedy Bedazzled proved the most popular choice when we asked you what we’d missed from the list. Thora Hird, Thirza Wakefield Updated: 16 August 2018. John Bindon, Action, Comedy, Crime. Much like Darling, Here We Go round the Mulberry Bush wears the influence of the Free Cinema and social realist films of the 50s, with the occasional unfiltered appearance by a non-professional actor. The mid-60s saw a turn in the tide for British filmmaking. | Peter Finch, James Fox, Votes: Even as early as the opening credits, a poster of her face with bland expression is pasted over a billboard campaign for humanitarian aid. The film’s protagonist lives with his parents – on a housing estate in Stevenage, where he’s served up pink blancmange for breakfast and his Dad sulks if he can’t have quiet for the football results. Britain was undergoing a cultural revolution – symbolised by its pop and fashion exports, like Beatlemania and the miniskirt; the iconic status of popular shopping areas, the King’s Road, Kensington and Carnaby Street; the political activism of anti-nuclear campaigns; and sexual liberation. Karel Reisz There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture. Director: Robert Stephens, 272,322 Darling subverts the iconography of ‘The Face’ and the It Girl particular this era. A jack of all trades, he’ll try for an affair with whoever steps into the path of his present employment, be it street photography or chauffeuring. 89 min 10,560 | Rachel Roberts, Stars: John Schlesinger Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin. Drama, Romance. | The story of T.E. Director: | Stars: The “new wave” of 60s British realism had such precedents in "social problem" films as Yield to the Night (1957), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), No Trees in the Street (1958) and Violent Playground (1958) but it is Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top (1959) that is regarded as the key film in the movement. | | | Gross: Stars: Stars: Alec Guinness, Sarah Miles, | Clive Donner Mystery, Thriller. Comedy, Fantasy, Romance. Sam Wanamaker, R When Michelangelo Antonioni’s fashion photographer takes off into to the comparative escape of a gated city park, he emerges again as witness to a murder. Guy Hamilton | Edith Evans, | | Joan Plowright, Not Rated Ronald Neame Crime, Drama. Chas buries his head at the Notting Hill home of reclusive rock star Turner, played with beguiling maleficence by Mick Jagger in his debut acting role. David Hemmings, Patricia Phoenix, Approved | | 101 min Director: When Melina disappears the following night, her fiancé Carson – a clean-cut square arrived from America to bring her home – must sift through a raft of unreliable reconstructions for the facts of her probable death. LostCinemaChannel. Joseph Losey The ‘Yellow Submarine’ film with its combination of psychedelic pictures and music illustrates this perfectly. Sidney J. Furie “You’re a class traitor, Morgan, that’s what you are,” says Morgan’s mother (Irene Handl), who raised her son on hammer and sickle and worships Marx for a hearth god. Stars: Each of the recommendations included here is available to view in the UK. Avis Bunnage, Flora Robson, For all its darkness, The Pleasure Girls is a lively, entertaining film; a tender, tactile study of friends who pull through the lessons of the libertine scene with dignity intact. (Klaus Kinski is one such character, an oily, slum landlord modelled on the real-life Peter Rachman.) There's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. More than half a century after the release of this influential musical film, we turn back the clock to find 10 more films that let in the light on swinging London. Leslie Caron, Sally and Keith drive into the country for a walk in the woods in The Pleasure Girls, and Darling’s Diana finds in Italy an antidote to the pace of London life. 108 min Vanessa Redgrave, British Films of the '60s Collection by Shilpot & Shilpot. Alan Bates, Full Movie. But the British film (now a cult classic) that best exemplified the 'swinging' youth drugs/sex era of late 60s London was co-directors Donald Cammell's and Nicolas Roeg's originally X-rated Performance (1970) - starring Rolling Stones rock star Mick Jagger. 228 min Guy Doleman, | | 98 min After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two. Drama, Thriller. Tushingham’s climactic scatting of an almost Dadaist ‘Rape!’ monologue opens the lid on the slipperiness of sex talk and the latent hypocrisies of sexual license. | Drama, History, Romance. | Sally knows instinctively it’s love she should be wary of – not Neville’s firework parties or the “dreadful beatniks”, to paraphrase her Daddy. By the finish, though, the tables have turned. | 60s British films are increasingly available on DVD, and it was fascinating to note, when re-reading Robert Murphy's 'British Sixties Cinema' recently, that he had been unable to see two films - A Place to Go and The Small World of Sammy Lee - which are both now freely available on DVD (I have both of them). Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Dora Bryan, Alan Bates, A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
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