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Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson

1985 · 54m

Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

Studio: Thames
October 26, 198554m
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A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

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