Stand Up! Stand Up!

Experience the mood of urgency and change that permeated the late 1950s in films by Lindsay Anderson and his circle in the poetic, influential Free Cinema movement.

We are pleased to announce that O Dreamland will be added to the programme.

  • Total running time 83min

Against a backdrop of jazz, skiffle, the peace movement and the rise of the ‘Angry Young Men’, Anderson’s documentaries March to Aldermaston and Every Day Except Christmas, and his collaborator Karel Reisz’s Momma Don’t Allow, gave radical voice to new ideas about the power of artistry and the youth movement. Through the films in this programme, the Free Cinema movement assumes its place in the larger, restless, topsy-turvy firmament of the 1950s.

Momma Don’t Allow

  • Director

    Karel Reisz

  • UK 1956. 8min (extract)

  • Digital

 

Every Day Except Christmas

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1957. 42min

  • Digital

 

March to Aldermaston

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1959. 33min

  • Digital

 

O Dreamland

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK 1953. 13min

  • 16mm

Joint ticket available with Lindsay Anderson vs the Short Films Industry on Thursday 23 May £19, concessions £16 (Members pay £2 less).