Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Yeah, Arthur Seaton

is the lead character of the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

Oh, OK. Haven't heard of that one.

Jimmy Porter...

John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, first staged in 1956, gives the angry young men movement its name based on the main characters, Jimmy Porter's class rage and misogyny directed at his wife.

Two novels coming to the mix here, John Brain's Room at the Top, which is published in 1957, and Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which is published in 1958.

And they're going to be made into two huge films that really open the door of this new wave movement that's bubbling away.

So at the same time, and founded in the mid-50s, the Free Cinema Documentary Movement, which was a British documentary film initiative, is training a generation of directors in observational, working class, location shot realism.

frankness.

And it's all about a working class Yorkshireman's ambition and cynicism.

They then produce Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960s.

It's Albert Thinney, it's Nottingham, and it's arguably the genre's high point of male anti-hero energy.

Mm.

In particular, you've chosen Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring-

Yeah

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Mm-hmm

... all of a sudden, people are making films about ...

You know, I know Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was set up North, but it's about working people.

It's about us, played by people that come from them places, and probably written by people that come from them places, 'cause they were so bang on the money.