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WOODFALL: A Revolution in British Cinema (9-Disc Blu-ray box set) Directors: Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, Richard Lester, Desmond Davis
As the 1960s beckoned, a new mood swept through Britain. With anger mounting at an out-of-touch establishment, the era was reflected on screen by the rise of Woodfall Films. Founded in 1958 by director Tony Richardson, writer John Osbourne and producer Harry Saltzman, the company pioneered the British New Wave, defining an incendiary brand of social realism. In films like Look Back in Anger (1959) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), working-class life was spot-lit with unheard-of honesty. The same risk-taking spirit led the company to find a new generation of brilliant young actors to star in their films, including Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. Films like Tom Jones (1963) then expanded the Woodfall slate in an irreverent, colourful direction that helped define swinging London further securing their extraordinary chapter in the history of British film. From 1958 to 1984 Woodfall produced twenty award-winning often genre defining films. Here, presented for the first time are eight of Woodfall's early ground-breaking films, many newly restored and remastered. Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut) Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964) The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965)
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Over 20 hours extra material 80-page book featuring essays on all 8 films
UK | 1959 -1965 | B&W and colour | English language with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | 921 minutes (+ extras) | original aspect ratios | 7 x BD50 + 2 x BD25, 1080p, 24fps, region B | Cert 15 (moderate sex references, violence, language)

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.5 x 13.9 x 5.5 cm; 698.53 Grams
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Digital, Director's Cut
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Bfi
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079N1HQDK
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 8

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Robert Love

A compilation that celebrates the very best of British film.

Reviewed in Australia on 20 August 2018

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Well boxed. Great content of the British Film Industry renaissance. Compelling peformances now on Blu-ray.

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David Welford

SUPERB BLU-RAY BOX SET

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2019

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First out the Box was ‘Tom Jones’. The opening sequences are in the style of a silent movie including inter-titles which catches your attention as does the silent piano style accompaniment played on a harpsichord and used throughout the film. Apparently reading the book about the making of the film the actors and crew had great fun on the set; there was a lot of spontaneous improvising and deviation from the script not to mention the unconventional at the time filming techniques. There is a very good cast with real chemistry between them. Albert Finney is dashingly rakish and not forgetting the lovely Susannah York and bumbling Hugh Griffin , Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood and Diane Cilento as the wicked wench who leads Tom astray in the most discrete way. Well the film is still good fun, has a good story line that is easy to follow and very entertaining. There is no swearing or nudity, which is a pleasant change from the latest Oscar Winning ‘The Favourite’. It hasn’t really dated; it is a totally different experience to see it on a large screen in this really excellent 4K restoration from the original camera negatives.
‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ is set in the working class area of Nottingham. Albert Finney works hard at his factory bench earning good money in the Rayleigh Bicycle workshop. He is very outspoken to anyone who cares to listen to him and in the evenings he spends his money drinking heavily in the local pubs and plays the sort of obnoxious bloke most of us would certainly not like spend our time with. He is having an affair with one of his fellow workers wife whom he gets pregnant. He meets the rather aloof Shirley Anne Field and he has to reconsider his way of life. The film at the time was highly controversial in the way it portrayed extra-marital sex and the resulting quest for an abortion, which was illegal in the 1960. Today one is struck on how grimy Nottingham looked then and how different the house interiors portrayed were, not forgetting the outside toilets that were in the yard are fortunately a distant memory as most of this housing would have been pulled down being considered slums. Albert Finney is very memorable in this role and at the BAFTAs that year he won the award for ‘Most Promising Newcomer’. The film is one that I had not seen for a long time and was pleased to revisit it. The film leaves a lasting impression that is not easily forgotten! It is still hotly debated by Film Students and Critics. An original 35mm fine grain master was used for this very good high definition transfer.
Albert Finney’s first /previous film role was in ‘The Entertainer’. He had a minor role alongside Alan Bates as Lawrence Olivier’s sons and Joan Plowright as his daughter. Laurence Olivier is superb in his portrayal of Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist in the dying days of musical hall type entertainment in the northern seaside resort of Morecambe and nearby Blackpool. Oliver performed for real for the stage sequences at the Alhambra Theatre in Morecambe in front of an invited audience. The excellent supporting cast also includes, Roger Livesey, Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird and Charles Gray. Some of the on stage sequences with the chorus girls were considered rather risqué in those days hence the ‘X’ certificate, now reclassified as a ‘PG’! The Alhambra building still exists today but is rather dilapidated and there are exciting plans to restore it to its former glory of an entertainment centre. I really enjoyed this film and the extras are particularly good and include Mitchell & Kenyon films of Morecambe in the 1900’s. The 35mm original camera negatives and a fine grain master was used to produce this excellent copy.
‘Look Back in Anger’ is considered by some to be one Richard Burton’s finest performance as the disillusioned, college-educated man, raging and ranting against the establishment. The opening scene at a Jazz Club where he plays the trumpet is memorable. By day he sells sweets on a market stall, I found the goings on in the background of the market particularly interesting. One pities his poor wife who has to suffer the brunt of his tirades, anger and verbal abuse; one wonders why any woman can possibly be attracted to a man like him. He has an affair with his wife’s best friend, the consequences prove far-reaching. This is the epitome of the kitchen-sink drama that spawned a new generation of British films that was the Swinging Sixties. The film promotes the idea of 'the permissive society’ and was very controversial at the time of the film’s release, thereby attracting an 'X’ certificate but now in hindsight merits a ‘PG’. Another excellent copy from a 4K scan of the original camera negatives.
In ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ Tom Courtenay plays a defiant teenager who refuses to settle into a job at the factory. Caught for petty thieving he is sent to Borstal, where he discovers his talent for cross-country running and he is given him the chance to redeem himself in a race against a local public school. This British New Wave classic tale of rebellion won Tom Courtney fame and a BAFTA for Best Newcomer. He went on to be a popular star perhaps best remembered for his roles in ‘Billy Liar’ and ‘Doctor Zhivargo’. Originally rated an ‘X’ it still manages the accolade of a ‘12’!
I also vividly remember seeing in my youth at the Odeon Gants Hill ‘A Taste of Honey’ starring Rita Tushingham in her first starring role when she was just eighteen; what sticks in your mind is her very large dark soulful eyes that seem to look directly at you and her very expressive face. The film is set mostly set in Salford /Manchester and a short sequence in Blackpool. Rita plays a seventeen year old working class teenager who has a volatile, tense, verbally abusive relationship with her mother, played superbly by Dora Byran who has both a drink and men problems. Rita leaves her mother and school, works in a shoe shop, gets herself pregnant by coloured sailor. She rents a flat that she shares with a gay art/textile student played by Murray Melvin with whom she has a meaningful platonic friendship. It is all played out against a very stark northern industrial background and the interior of her living accommodation that today would be considered unacceptable. The film has had a recent 4K scan from the original camera negatives and it shows in the superb black & white picture. The extras include recent interviews with Rita about the film; fifty years on she still has those eyes and is well worth listening to her articulate reminiscences of her first film! In ‘The Girl With Green Eyes’ which is set in Dublin, Rita plays a quiet, rather naïve young woman, while her flat mate played by Lynn Redgrave is vivacious and ebullient with an eye for the boys. But when the two befriend a quiet, middle-aged writer played by Peter Finch, he starts a bitter sweet romance with Rita. The film went on to win a Golden Globe whilst both Rita Tushingham and Lyn Redgrave were nominated for BAFTAs. This is another 4K scan from the original negatives B&W negatives producing superb images, but one is unfortunately one is denied the opportunity to appreciate those lovely large green eyes!
‘The Knack and How to Get It’ can be seen as a light hearted entertaining comedy set in London at the height of ‘The Swinging Sixties’. A very young fresh faced Michael Crawford is a love-starved man who's jealous of his roommate Ray Brooks and his way with lots of willing women. He’s desperate to figure out his "knack" so he can embrace the naïve Rita Tushingham. The film is very quirky and tongue in cheek and is to me a fairly representative of the carefree spirit of the time. However towards the end of the film; Rita behaves in a manner that would cause uproar and controversy in the years after its release. I am sure we can all imagine what today’s media would have made of the scenes of her rushing round in a loveable, jokey non threatened manner repeatedly shouting ‘RAPE’! An interesting reflection of changing times between then and now. The film ends happily. Another excellent 4K restoration, it’s a film that I found particularly wonderfully nostalgia.
Buying this Box Set as against buying the discs separately is a substantial saving; that’s always supposing there are sufficient titles in it you want to see. I did manage to view all the films and extras over a three week and they brought back mostly happy memories of this period of my life. There was not a single strong swearword used in any of these excellent films. One reflects that yesterdays ‘X’ films that you may have had to lie about your age to the Cinema’s Cashier are these days mostly considered worthy of a ‘PG’! Only ‘The Knack’ now merits a ‘15’ but compared to a lot of recent ‘15’ films is fairly tame, there is no Nudity or Swearing! The only film that hasn’t really dated is ‘Tom Jones’ nearly merits the title of ‘Carry on Tom’! I thought that the just less than £50 the set cost me as reasonable value at around £6 per film and most importantly they are very repeatable.

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R H Warwick

Classic films for the first time on blue-rayfilms

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2019

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It takes me back to when I saw most of these films at the cinema.
The box set with all of it's extra's is a steal at the price. Some people
will not that these films at all, because they was classed as kitchen-sink
films. But most of then like it or not, was all of them very different and
so modern in how people lived in those days.

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TeeBee

Wonderful.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2021

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To have one film in a box that is a classic is fortunate, to have 8 is Nirvana. Believe me, this compendium of the best of British film making is as good as it gets. On the principal of Less is more I shall simply describe it as wonderful.

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M. J. Adams

BFI Box Set Exceptional Extras

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2020

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Not only do you get 9 classics of Btitish Cinema of the 1960's but you get Classic Shorts
from the Free Cinema Movemt (also available on a separate BFI Set) along with a short course
in cinematography via intervirews with master cinematographer Water Lassally and his
work on both Free Cinema, "The Loneliness of A long Distance Rumner", "a Taste of Honey",
and "Tom Jones". Plus a BFI book with essays setting Woodfall and the films in context.

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Jazzlicka

I love Rita

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2020

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I must say I only bought this for the Rita Tushingham films included
Very impressed with the remaster of The girl with green eyes very clear and detailed
Bargain boxset for lovers of old English films

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