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Free Cinema
Film Description A collection of films from the groundbreaking 'free cinema' movement, the term coined by Lindsay Anderson in 1956. The films were 'free' in the sense that they were made outside the framework of the film industry, and that their statements were personal. These films had in common the conditions of their production (very low budget, unpaid crew) and the equipment they employed (hand-held 16mm cameras) but also a style and attitude. Mostly funded by the British Film Institute's Experimental Film Fund, they featured ordinary, mostly working-class people at work and play, displaying a rare sympathy and respect, and a self-consciously poetic style. They also shared an experimental approach to sound, avoiding narration and imaginatively counterpointing sound and image. The collection contains the films O Dreamland (Anderson, 1953), Momma Don't Allow (Reisz & Richardson, 1955), Together (Mazzetti, 1956), Wakefield Express (Anderson, 1952), Nice Time (Tanner & Goretta, 1957), The Singing Street (McIsaac, 1952), Everyday Except Christmas (Anderson, 1957), Refuge England (Vas,1959), Enginemen (Grigsby, 1959), We Are The Lambeth Boys (Reisz, 1959), Food For A Blush (Russell, 1955), One Potato, Two Potato, The Vanishing Street, Tomorrow's Saturday, Gala Day and March To Aldermaston. The Gala Day Notes from the original 1956 free cinema programme state the following: No film can be too personal. The image speaks. Sounds amplifies and comments. Size is irrelevant. Perfection is not an aim. An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude.
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DVD Extras 3 discs; Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers, a 43-minute film consisting of specially commissioned interviews with Free Cinema filmmakers Lorenza Mazzetti, Walter Lassally, Alain Tanner and Michael Grigsby; film extracts and previously unseen photographs; 5 short documentaries from the late 1950s/early 1960s, made in the spirit of the Free Cinema movement; Fully illustrated 40-page booklet.
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Article - "Free Cinema"
by Michael Brooke
"With a 16mm camera, and minimal resources, and no payment for your technicians, you cannot achieve very much in commercial terms. You cannot make a feature film and your possibilities of experiment are severely limited. But you can use your eyes and your ears. You c... View article in full
Collections & ListsThis film is part of the following Film Collections
Including: Anger 1, Anger 3, Big Stories, Small Flashes, Campfire, Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films (Vol 2), Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films (Vol. 1), Cinema 16: American Short Films, Cinema 16: British Short Films, Cinema 16: European Short Films, Experimental Films - Deren.
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David Parkinson's Films Of The Year 2006 by David Parkinson
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Michael Brooke's Films Of The Year 2006 by Michael Brooke
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