A Closer Look at "We Are the Lambeth Boys"

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Reisz, A closer look at "We are the Lambeth boys" - by Theresa Khalil Reisz, Anderson and Richardson The trio that enlightened the spark of the Free British cinema movement A closer look at "We are the Lambeth boys" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1959 Karel Reisz directed his documentary "We are the Lambeth boys", one of the important films in the British free cinema movement. It is not possible to get a closer look of the film, without showing a glimpse of the history of the free cinema movement, as well as it is not possible to introduce Karel Reisz without his two companions Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, with whom he formed the basic triangle, from which the movement was launched. The Documentary film making was founded in Britain in 1929 by Grieson in cooperation with Stephen Tallents, and was mainly for governmental purposes, locked into traditional subjects such as recording events, royal occasions, reconstructed events, or had more explicit publicity objectives. As time passed by, after the end of the WWII and in the beginning of the mid-fifties, a cultural revolution began and the middle lower class became much more involved in all kind of arts, including film making. Young intellectuals and artists formed in the field of documentaries, what was called Free Cinema. It was a movement towards finding the British Identity, which was accused of being dominated by the American cinema. Was also a way of escaping from the traditional, formal and dull documentaries, into a more poetic films, close to humanity and the working class people. Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, who were Young film-makers, formed together the Free Cinema, also not to be forgotten lorenza Manzetti, who was the only woman
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