Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
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- Ep 1
1.Northern Lights
05-09-199358mThe first programme looks at the cinematic birth of a new working-class hero in the north of England. John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, Alan Sillitoe, Richard Har...
- Ep 2
2.Making It in London
12-09-199358mAs the 60s progressed, British cinema turned its attentions away from the class struggles of northern realist films and focused on the glamour of the capital as it crashed into the...
- Ep 3
3.A Very British Picture
19-09-199358mThe ebullience of "swinging" London gave way as the 60s progressed to a mood of questioning, and uneasy portents of revolution could be seen in the films of a new generation of dir...
- Ep 4
4.Strangers in the City
26-09-199358mThe film-making boom of the 60s drew a new breed of foreign directors to London, all with their own vision of the city. Polanski shot Repulsion in South Kensington. Antonioni made...
- Ep 5
5.The Last Wave
03-10-199358mConcluding the series, Michael Caine contrasts the downbeat spy he created in The Ipcress File with the fantasy world of James Bond; John Osborne recalls the huge success of Tom Jo...
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