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Free Cinema
To celebrate half a century of funding innovative film-making the bfi presented a feature on Free Cinema. Find out about the film-makers who took their cameras onto the streets and captured an unscripted look at England.
Free Cinema: The definitive film collection on DVD
The BFI has compiled for the first time, the definitive collection of films from the 1950s' Free Cinema movement.
Who were the free cinema film-makers?
Biographies of some of the key figures in the Free Cinema movement including Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson.
Free Cinema at the NFT
A Free Cinema programme at the NFT on 22 March 2001 was followed by discussion with Karel Reisz, Lorenza Mazzetti, David Robinson and Walter Lassally, chaired by Kevin MacDonald. Complete transcript available.
The Free Cinema Programme
The original Free Cinema programme from February 1956, including the Free Cinema manifesto.
Free Cinema Bibliography
References to books, articles and interviews, from biographical to theoretical, referencing both online and offline sources.
Documents: the Free Cinema Archive
Gavin Lambert, Lindsay Anderson and others writing on Free Cinema then and since. Articles from Sight & Sound and National Film Theatre programme notes.
Touring Programmes
To celebrate half a century of innovative film-making, bfi Collections has launched a touring programme of the best of the bfi's early productions.
More on Free Cinema
Links to Free Cinema resources, including a Sight & Sound article and interview with Lorenza Mazzetti.
