Look Back in Anger (Richardson, 1959): Castle Cinema, 7.30pm
This 16mm screening is presented by the ever-popular Cine-Real duo.
Chicago Reader review:
Tony Richardson directed this competent 1959 adaptation of John
Osborne's archetypal (and, alas, archetypally misogynist) Angry Young
Man play. Richard Burton (a bit too old for his role) is the
antiestablishment Jimmy Porter, Mary Ure is his dumped-on wife, and
Claire Bloom is her best friend (and his lover). Probably still
watchable today, if only for the brittle dialogue and kitchen-sink
realism, but undoubtedly dated as well. Nigel Kneale wrote the script;
with Edith Evans and Donald Pleasence
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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