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Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema

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  • Release Date: Monday, 11 June 2018
  • Country of Release: United Kingdom
  • MSRP: £59.99
Buy Physical Copy At: Amazon.co.uk
Look Back in Anger | The Entertainer | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | A Taste of Honey | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tom Jones | Girl with Green Eyes | The Knack... and How to Get It
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Featuring: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Rita Tushingham, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Claire Bloom, Brenda De Banzie, Shirley Ann Field, Dora Bryan, Tom Courtenay, Susannah York, Ray Brooks, Mary Ure, Roger Livesey, Rachel Roberts, Paul Danquah, Avis Bunnage, Hugh Griffith, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Crawford, Edith Evans, Joan Plowright, Murray Melvin, James Bolan, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Gary Raymond, Alan Bates, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen, Joan Greenwood, Julian Glover, Jane Birkin, Glen Byam Shaw, Daniel Massey, Joe Robinson, Diane Cilento, Jacqueline Bisset, Donald Pleasance, George Devine, Charlotte Rampling, David Tomlinson, Charles Gray, Rachel Kempson, Angela Baddeley, Joyce Redman, Wilfrid Lawson, Peter Bull, David Warner, Rosalind Knight, George A. Cooper, Mark Dignam, Micheál MacLiammóir

A new 9-disc set celebrating the 60th anniversary of Woodfall Films. Includes eight iconic films (many newly restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time) that revolutionised British cinema and launched the careers of the likes of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham.

  • Year: 1959-1965
  • Time: 918 total min.

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Technical Specifications

Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (9 Discs)
Total: 9 Discs
Regions:
B (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
1.78:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Short Film, Alternate Version, Audio Commentary, Documentary, Video Essay, Archival Footage, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Q&A
  • The Stories that Changed British Cinema panel discussion (2018): Danny Leigh, Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay, Joely Richardson, Paris Lees and Jez Butterworth explore the gritty stories brought to life by Woodfall Films
  • George Devine Memorial Play: Look Back in Anger (Peter Whitehead, 1966)
  • Oswald Morris Remembers Woodfall (Alan Van Wijgerden, 1993)
  • Ten Bob in Winter (Lloyd Reckord, 1963)
  • Look Back in Anger trailer
  • George Devine Memorial Play: The Entertainer, Sequence One and Two (Peter Whitehead, 1966)
  • O Dreamland (Lindsay Anderson, 1953)
  • Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1901)
  • Parade on West End Pier, Morecambe (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1901)
  • Parade on West End Pier, Morecambe (2) (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1901)
  • Parade on Morecambe Central Pier (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1902)
  • Morecambe Promenade & Winter Gardens (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1901)
  • Morecambe Pier (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1900)
  • Scenes by the Stone Jetty, Morecambe (Mitchell and Kenyon, 1901)
  • Morecambe Carnival - Topical Budget 944-2 (1929)
  • Lancashire Coast (John Taylor, 1957)
  • Commentary for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by film historian Robert Murphy, with writer Alan Sillitoe and cinematographer Freddie Francis, moderated by film historian Robert Murphy
  • Albert Finney Interview (1982)
  • Shirley Ann Field on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Caroline Millar, 2009)
  • We Are the Lambeth Boys (Karel Reisz, 1959)
  • Commentary for A Taste of Honey by Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, and Dora Bryan
  • Walter Lassally Video Essay (2002) - Walter Lassally explains some of the decisions and techniques used on A Taste of Honey
  • A Taste of Honey 50th Anniversary Q&A with Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin and Walter Lassally (2011)
  • Interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
  • Holiday (John Taylor, 1957)
  • Commentary for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by film historian Robert Murphy, with lead actor Tom Courtenay and writer Alan Sillitoe
  • Walter Lassally Video Essay (2002) - Walter Lassally explains some of the decisions and techniques used on The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner
  • Momma Don’t Allow (Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson, 1956)
  • Both the theatrical cut and director's cut
  • The Guardian Interview: Albert Finney (1982, 35 mins audio only)
  • New interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on director Tony Richardson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1967
  • USSR Today: Meeting to Mark the 200th Anniversary of Henry Fielding (1954, 1 min)
  • Original trailers
  • George Devine Memorial Play: Luther (Peter Whitehead, 1966, 7 mins)
  • New program on the film’s cinematography featuring a conversation between Walter Lassally and critic Peter Cowie
  • Commentary for Girl with Green Eyes by Adrian Martin
  • Rita Tushingham on Girl with Green Eyes (2018)
  • Film Poetry: Desmond Davis (2018) - A new interview with director Desmond Davis
  • Food for a Blluuusssshhhhh (Elizabeth Russell, 1959)
  • The Peaches (Michael Gill, 1964)
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Stills galleries
  • George Devine Memorial Play: Exit the King (Peter Whitehead, 1966)
  • Captain Busby the Even Tenour of Her Ways (1967, 16 mins): Ann Wolff's surreal riff on Philip O'Connor's poem, featuring Quentin Crisp
  • Now and Then: Dick Lester (1967, 17 mins): Bernard Braden's wide-ranging interview with the director
  • Rita Tushingham Remembers THE KNACK... and how to get it (2018, 11 mins): newly shot interview with the actress
  • Staging THE KNACK...and how to get it (2018, 2 mins): interview with the director of the first stage version of The Knack
  • British Cinema in the 1960s: Richard Lester in Conversation (2018, 59 mins): the director discusses his career with Neil Sinyard

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