In the late 1950s, Tony Richardson, John Osborne and Harry Saltman established Woodfall Film Productions, releasing a string of gritty and true-to-life films. The company launched the careers of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham, simultaneously creating a British cinema revolution. Woodfall shocked cinema-goers with films that featured realistic dialogue, regional accents and believable scenarios, often tackling tricky subjects like race, teenage pregnancy and homosexuality. Showroom highlights their important impact on cinema today by presenting three of their films: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (10 July), Look Back in Anger (21 July), and A Taste of Honey (31 July).
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- Hannah Clugston