Free Cinema 1956 An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement made by one of its greatest proponents Lindsay Anderson to commemorate British Film Year in 1985 Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill Unlike Richard Attenboroughs celebratory episode of the same series or Alan Parkers more aggressive show which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parkers bugbears Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI Andersons show accentuates the negative painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself Its mordantly funny and very savage