Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (Tony Richardson;Karel Reisz;Richard Lester;Desmond Davis;) (DVD)

Collection of eight films produced by the Woodfall Films company, founded in 1958 by director Tony Richardson. In 'Look Back in Anger' 1959 Richard Burton plays angry young man Jimmy Porter in this screen adaptation of John Osborne's ground-breaking stage play. Jimmy, university-educated, articulate and poor, is angry with almost everything and everyone from the government and the church to his long-suffering wife, Helena Claire Bloom. In 'The Entertainer' 1960 a tatty, ageing seaside performer is a failure as a family man and as an entertainer. Laurence Olivier plays the excruciating Archie Rice, with an ego that destroys the lives of those closest to him. In 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' 1960, Arthur Seaton Albert Finney is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for the drudgery and discipline of his weekday life with weekends spent drinking and womanising. His affair with a fellow factory worker's wife, Brenda Rachel Roberts, seems especially ill-advised - particularly when Brenda informs him that she is pregnant with his child. With abortion illegal at the time, Arthur and Brenda face a difficult dilemma. Will Arthur face up to the kind of domestic responsibilities he openly scorns or run harder than ever In 'A Taste of Honey' 1961, when pregnant Manchester teenager Jo Rita Tushingham is abandoned by her sailor boyfriend and her man-hungry mother Dora Bryan she
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