Screenings

Series: Essential Cinema: This Nation's Saving Grace: Discoveries From the Golden Age of British Cinema

The British Golden Age of Cinema brought many treasures to the world of film: the Powell/Pressburger and David Lean classics that remain popular all around the world; the Ealing comedies that filled arthouse theaters with laughs in the ‘50s and ‘60s; and more. But there were also films made by many of the same people that were geared primarily for UK consumption. These were not “B” movies exactly, but rather “programmers.” Depending on what other titles happened to be in the hopper, these could take their bow on screens as the appetizer in support of a Hollywood movie or as the main course. The films in this series are frequently tough and dryly humorous, and there’s a well-earned world-weariness here that domestic Brits identified with and we hope you’ll like as well.