This Sporting Life 15

In This Sporting Life, Lindsay Anderson takes a straightforward story about a washed up rugby league player and weaves it into a masterpiece of existential angst: an oblique, episodic tale full of raw emotion and tangled relationships. Strong stuff for 1963, still resonant fifty years on.

film bites: subversive britannia

3 films, 3 Sunday afternoons
See all 3 for £20 / £15 concessions
Includes discussions and study pack
Tickets also available for the films individually

What is the shared ground between social realism and fantasy in British films 1959–1965? These features and documentaries comment on family/class/national fragmentation against the exciting and tempting ambivalence of new freedoms. Together they hint at a Britain experiencing anxiety over social change, corruption, pleasure and Americanisation (not to mention alien invasion).