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 ...

Until recently, the Fifties have been commonly seen as the 'doldrums era' of British cinema. During the decade the two major cinema chains had embarked on a programme of cinema closures. The Rank ...

Salford, 1971: a proud Pakistani chip shop owner lives with his white wife and seven children in a terraced house. The children rebel against his strict approach and his insistence that they are ...

Gathering seabirds' eggs at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast, was a traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge, which gave them a legal right to ...

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 ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... Their cuts produce a faster-paced story, intended to engage contemporary ...

A complex treatise exploring feminism, motherhood and sexual difference in seven numbered chapters. Headings are: Opening Pages; Laura Talking; Stones; Louise's Story Told in 13 Shots; Acrobats; Laura ...

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 ...

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 ...

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

Patrick Mower's star image was entirely suited to the 1970s, right down, as Jonathan Meades observed, to "the heavy jewellery that Mower slings over his bare chest". Constantly in television starring ...