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Films by Tony Richardson
Look Back in Anger
UK 1958; Optimum/Region 2; Certificate PG; 96 minutes; Aspect Ratio 1.66:1 anamorphic; Features: trailer (MFB 305)
Mademoiselle
UK/France 1966; Optimum/Region 2; Certificate 15; 99 minutes; Aspect Ratio 2.35:1 anamorphic; Features: trailer (MFB 397)
Joseph Andrews
UK 1976; Optimum/Region 2; Certificate 15; 95 minutes; Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 anamorphic (MFB 519)
Films: The first of these three very different films by the British New Wave pioneer was an opening-out of the John Osborne play, whose seminal 1956 Royal Court premiere Richardson had also directed. It fares less well on screen (certainly compared with nearcontemporaries such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), thanks to the awkward contrast between locationshot realism and studio-bound bedsit, and the inescapable fact that Richard...