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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 4, 2018 12:53:51 GMT
Rita Tushingham was only 18 when she won the main role in the film A Taste of Honey. In 1961, she was one of a new breed of star created by Woodfall - a small company with big ideas which helped revolutionise British film. Now the Woodfall films have been restored to introduce a new generation to some very British stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43626593The Woodfall season runs at BFI Southbank until 27 April. The BFI box set Woodfall - A Revolution in British Cinema will be released in May. |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 4, 2018 17:13:58 GMT
Jolly good show.
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 5, 2018 0:06:11 GMT
Looks great - a few I haven't seen and as for the ones I have, well it's been a long, long time.
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Post by marshamae on Apr 5, 2018 1:20:37 GMT
Really great development .
Tony Richardson was certainly an important innovator but.... Alan Shillitoe, Karel Reisz, John Osbourne , certa8nly other important figures.
I’m waiting for this box set with great 8nterest
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Post by london777 on Apr 5, 2018 4:29:06 GMT
Great news and not a dud out of the eight titles, though I have never really warmed to "Tom Jones". But then I have not seen the Director's Cut now included in the set. My birthday is coming up in five weeks. maybe I should drop a few hints in the family. (Oh, darn it, I just remembered they are all dead - the line dies with me).
Woodfall was certainly important at that time but a lot of the acclaim was (non-party) politically inspired. They were not judged solely as cinema but as a strand in the social upheaval which led to Labour election victories and other movements like CND and Anti-Apartheid.
For this reason the "break with the past" and "rejection of previous ways of making movies" was over-emphasized. It was good agitprop. But other British directors had been making, and were still making, equally socially important and brave films, in particular Carol Reed, John Hamer and Basil Dearden, and cinematically I do not think Woodfall ever came up with anything to match "The Third Man" or "It Always Rains on Sunday".
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 5, 2018 9:34:12 GMT
A welcome set although no huge favourites of mine in there
One quibble - shame no room for MADEMOISELLE - Richardson's kinky Genet adaptation, with the late Jeanne Moreau vamping it up as bucolic femme fatale with a sideline in arson, destroying the life of a migrant farmer and his son. Guess it is not "British" enough 
Here she is about to crack the eggs - one of cinema's most shocking scenes
So here it is! Ooh La La!
Enjoy
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 5, 2018 9:48:20 GMT
I enjoyed a British movie from 1958 that was on TV the other day - Innocent Sinners, based on a Rumer Godden novel. It was about a lonely young girl in inner city London who decided to start her own little garden in the ruined graveyard of a church. Very touching - and amusing in parts.
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