1. Italian Neorealism and the Free Cinema Movement
... , British cinema was in danger of becoming a Hollywood cliche'. When filmmakers decided to focus on vitalizing a revolution in the industry while attempting to drown commercial dominance, Free Cinema is what surfaced. Free Cinema was created primarily for pragmatic reasons. In early 1956, as Lindsay Anderson and his friends Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti were struggling to get their ... attracted wide press attention and all screenings were sold out. This helped institute a concrete foundation for Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz to pave the way for British filmmakers ...
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