Directed by John Schlesinger • 1965 • United Kingdom
Starring Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Julie Christie won a best actress Oscar for her star-making performance as a restless model ascending the social ladder of swinging-sixties London as she bounces between affairs with two men: Dirk Bogarde’s earnest television reporter and Laurence Harvey’s cynical advertising executive. By turns seductively stylish and coolly satiric, director John Schlesinger’s international breakthrough—which also garnered Oscars for best screenplay and costume design—is a cutting look beneath the glamorous veneer of the jet-setting mod scene.
Directed by Richard Lester • 1965 • United Kingdom
Starring Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Rita Tushingham
From director Richard Lester comes this mod masterpiece that won the Palme d’Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and all but defined the look and spirit of swinging London. Sophisticated Tol...
Directed by Lindsay Anderson • 1969 • United Kingdom
Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick
Lindsay Anderson’s IF.... is a daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE,...
Directed by Ken Loach • 1970 • United Kingdom
Starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie
Named one of the ten best British films of the century by the British Film Institute, Ken Loach’s KES is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingl...
