In Focus: The British New Wave

October 2–23, 2019

Film historian David Thomson expands on our British New Wave retrospective with a series of four illuminating presentations on the writers, directors, and actors of sixties Britain.

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  • If . . .

  • Blow-Up

  • The Servant

  • The Entertainer

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  • Past
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Past Films

  • The Entertainer

    Tony Richardson
    United Kingdom, 1960
    Wednesday, October 2 3:10 PM
    Lecture by David Thomson

    Laurence Olivier as a has-been music-hall performer—and Alan Bates and Albert Finney in their screen debuts—in John Osborne’s play-turned-film, Olivier’s “greatest contemporary role” (Pauline Kael).

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  • The Servant

    Joseph Losey
    United Kingdom, 1963
    Wednesday, October 9 3:10 PM
    Lecture by David Thomson

    Let’s play master and servant! Dirk Bogarde and James Fox do it in this striking parable on class conflict, Joseph Losey’s first collaboration with Harold Pinter.

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  • If . . .

    Lindsay Anderson
    United Kingdom, 1968

    Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, October 16 3:10 PM
    Lecture by David Thomson

    In 1968, the boarding school as metaphor for social control was a shot heard ’round the world. “A modern classic” (Time Out).

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  • Blow-Up

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    United Kingdom, 1966

    Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, October 23 3:10 PM
    Lecture by David Thomson

    Michelangelo Antonioni chose Swinging London as the setting for “a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).

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