❉ Talking Pictures to screen the best of the British New Wave.
Set up in the late 1950s, the British film production company Woodfall Film Productions was established by Tony Richardson, John Osborne and Harry Saltzman to make the film version of Look Back in Anger (1959) and produced several of the most significant British films of the 1960s. A later Woodfall film, Tom Jones (1963), won four Academy Awards in 1964.
In collaboration wth Woodfall Films Library, vintage film & TV channel Talking Pictures TV are screening the following classics of British New Wave cinema at the following times:
❉ A Taste of Honey – 11th Nov 21:20 & 13th Nov 21:20
❉ Look Back in Anger – 12th Nov 20:00
❉ The Entertainer – 15th November 21:20 & 19th Nov 21:00
❉ Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner – 21st Nov 22:40 & 26th Nov 20:20
Here’s the exclusive trailer, from Woodfall Films & Talking Pictures TV:
❉ Learn more about the British New Wave in this fascinating feature from We Are Cult by film & TV journalist Steve O’Brien: Kicking Against The Pricks.
❉ Watch Talking Pictures TV on Freeview 81, Sky 343, Freesat 306 and Youview 81.
❉ Click here to view all the current TV schedules on the Talking Pictures TV Website.
❉ For more on British New Wave cinema, check out content from BBC Radio 4’s British New Wave season on BBC iPlayer.
