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Free Cinema
(BFI, E, triple disc pounds 29.99)
These 16 shorts comprised a challenge to establishment British cinema in the 1950s. Free cinema was a label coined by Lindsay Anderson to describe films by himself and others that were personal, cheap to make and largely about the working class. Anderson, Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson subsequently progressed to distinguished careers in the British cinema and theatre. Every Day Except Christmas (Anderson, 1957) and We Are the Lambeth Boys (Reisz, 1959), in particular, retain their vitality and sense of something fresh in the wind.
MOSQUITO COAST
WARNER, PG, pounds 13.99
This enjoyable film makes you realise what Harrison Ford does best - the manic adventurer with a comically-set mouth. Based on Paul Theroux's novel, he plays the proselytising father, who, lamenting 'the death of America', transports his...