Before playing the first Dr. Who, William Hartnell was a familiar face in British cinema portraying tough sergeants and underworld types. However, despite stereotyped roles, the actor often delivered ...
The guitar craze and the people swept up in its wake, from beginning amateurs to practised professionals. Russell's lively film pays tribute to the hand-me-down nature of the skiffle movement in the ...
Both these films typify Cinema Action's approach of letting those directly involved express themselves without commentary. They were designed to provide an analysis of struggles, which could encourage ...
During a Sicilian fiesta, young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other. While Cedric Messina and Alan Cooke (who adapted the ...
The films of Norman J. Warren are as much a window on the fortunes of independent film making in 1960s and 70s Britain as they are an insight into the creative imagination behind some of the country's ...
The creation of the National Coal Board (NCB) on 15th July 1946 sowed the seeds for one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units - the NCB Film Unit. Film production in ...
The 1980s began with the bleakest outlook yet seen for British film. Most of the well-heeled film companies such as Rank, EMI and assorted Hollywood majors had either pulled out of British production ...
Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...
There have been relatively few Chinese themes and characters on British cinema screens - certainly by comparison with those from, for example, India - despite a significant Chinese population since ...
Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...