FTT 44235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Cinema, Marlon Brando, Lindsay Anderson
15 Sep 2016
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Social realism - free cinema (look over wikipedia page as well) (movies: the lamberth. Boys, o dreamland, and saturday night and sunday morning) Founders of free cinema believed that film was going in the wrong direction. Believed that films were being used more as filming theatre plays than filming reality. Idea of making these films were to bring out reality that hadn"t yet been shown to people with cameras. Said that ordinary reality is just as interesting on camera as heightened reality. The nature of what they"re doing is culturally defined and not just simply defined by the parameters of the film. Wanted to capture reality as things really were, not as they"d like them to be. One of the ideals that is explored in this kind of film. One of the groups ignored in films before the 1950s is the working class - manual labor. So during this time they finally showed people working and, like in saturday.
