Free Cinema Programmes

Film still for Free Cinema Programmes

The first Free Cinema Programme can be viewed online from the Free Cinema feature

Free Cinema 1

5-8 February 1956

O Dreamland
Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1953, 11 mins
Momma Don't Allow
Karel Reisz/Tony Richardson, UK, 1955, 22 mins
Together
Lorenza Mazzetti, UK, 1956, 52 mins

Free Cinema 2

9-12 September 1956

On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin, US, 1955, 65 mins
Neighbours
Norman McLaren, Canada, 1952, 8 mins
Le Sang des bĂȘtes
Georges Franju, France, 1948, 20 mins

Free Cinema 3 'Look at Britain'

25-29 May 1957

Every Day Except Christmas
Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1957, 40 mins
Nice Time
Alain Tanner/ Claude Goretta, UK, 1957, 17 mins
Wakefield Express
Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1952, 30 mins
The Singing Street
Nigel McIsaac, UK, 1952, 18 mins

Free Cinema 4 'Polish Voices'

3-6 September 1958

Dom
Jan Lenica, Poland, 1958, 12 mins
Two Men and a Wardrobe
Roman Polanski, Poland, 1957, 15 mins
Where the Devil Says Good-night
Kazimierz Karabasz, Poland, 1956, 11 mins
Paragraph Zero
Wlodzimierz Borowik, Poland, 1956, 17 mins
House of Old Women
Jan Lomnicki, Poland, 1957, 9 mins
Once upon a Time
Walerian Borowczyk, Poland, 1957, 9 mins

Free Cinema 5 'French Renewal'

7-9 September 1958

Les Mistons
François Truffaut, France, 1957, 26 mins
Le Beau Serge
Claude Chabrol, France, 1959, 97 mins

Free Cinema 6 'The Last Free Cinema'

18-22 March 1959

We Are the Lambeth Boys
Karel Reisz, UK, 1959, 52 mins
Enginemen
Michael Grigsby, UK, 1959, 21 mins
Refuge England
Robert Vas, UK, 1959, 27 mins
Food for a Blush
Elizabeth Russell, UK, 1955, 30 mins

Post-Free Cinema Free Cinema

Shorts

March to Aldermaston
anon, UK, 1959, 30 mins
Terminus
John Schlesinger, UK, 1961, 33 mins
The Vanishing Street
Robert Vas, UK, 1962, 20 mins
Tomorrow's Saturday
Michael Grigsby, UK, 1962, 18 mins
Gala Day
John Irvin, UK, 1963, 26 mins

Features

Room at the Top
Jack Clayton, 1958
Look Back in Anger
Tony Richardson, 1959
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Karel Reisz, 1960
A Taste of Honey
Tony Richardson, 1961
A Kind of Loving
John Schlesinger, 1962
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Tony Richardson, 1962
This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson, 1963
Last Updated: 10 Feb 2012