The British New Wave
The Angry Young Men
Around 1960 British film left the drawing room for the factory floor, the terraced street and the borstal. Six films, most of them shot in the North, about young people who wanted more than they were offered and said so.
- 1
Saturday Night and Sunday MorningAlbert Finney works a lathe all week in Nottingham and answers to nobody on Saturday night.
- 2
A Taste of HoneyRita Tushingham, seventeen and pregnant in Salford, makes a home with the one friend who stays.
- 3
The Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerA borstal boy who can outrun anyone works out what winning would cost him, and stops.
- 4
This Sporting LifeRichard Harris plays rugby league like a fight, and loses the one fight that matters.
- 5
Billy LiarTom Courtenay daydreams his way out of an undertaker’s office; the anger has turned to fantasy.
- 6
KesA decade on and quieter: a Barnsley boy, a kestrel, and a school that has already given up on him.