British New Wave
British New Wave refers to a film style that emerged from movies young British directors from the late 1950s until the early mid-1960s. The films were made about the same time as the advent of the French Nouvelle Vague and the British film critics called this new English films analogous with the literal translation of the term from the French. The films follow the products, known under the slogan Free Cinema documentary film movement are influenced by the movement of young writers, the Angry Young Men called themselves, and so it came as inevitably to some literary adaptations of works by these authors.
Theme of the films is mainly the working class life in northern England. The films are usually shot in black and white and to seek an almost documentary realism that you also Kitchen sink realism called. The authors and filmmakers cast for the first time in British cultural history the little people a voice and told everyday dramas. The era lasted until about 1964/1965, as light comedies and action films such as the James Bond films, the British cinema began to dominate.
Important directors of the New Wave
- Lindsay Anderson
- Jack Cardiff
- Jack Clayton
- Richard Lester
- Karel Reisz
- Tony Richardson
- John Schlesinger
Important actors of the New Wave
- Alan Bates
- Dirk Bogarde
- Julie Christie
- Tom Courtenay
- Albert Finney
- Richard Harris
- Laurence Harvey
- Rita Tushingham
Important films of the New Wave
- Look Back in Anger (1958 )
- The way to the top (1959 )
- The Comedian (1960 )
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960 )
- Sons and Lovers (1960 )
- A Taste of Honey (1961 )
- Just a hint Bliss (1962 )
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962 )
- Billy Liar (1963 )
- Alluring Laurel (1963 )
- Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (1963 )
- Yeah Yeah Yeah (1964 )
- The Knack (1965 )
- Darling (1965 )
- Film in the UK
- Film movement