Classics

The genre formally known as "Nostalgia", we determine "Classics" to be all titles that now pre-date 1990(!), but don’t hold us to it…

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Private Road (1971): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast…; The other lost gem from British independent film-maker Barney Platts-Mills, who follows up “Bronco Bullfrog” (1970) with a rough-hewn love story charting the first steps into adult life for a young depressive girl and a cocky young writer. Susan Penhaligon would go on to become a well-known television…
Bronco Bullfrog (1969): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd; Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law. Part of the BFI Flipside series.
Lucky Jim (1957): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith…; A likeable British comedy adapted from the beloved novel by Kingsley Amis about the constant frustrations of a young history lecturer with his university colleagues.
Family Way, The (1966): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…; This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills) who are forced to live in a crowded house with the husband's family (including Mills' real-life father, John Mills). Based on the Bill Naughton play…
Up The Junction (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman…; A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed Battersea, where she gets a flat and a job in a factory before confronting the propsect of an illegal abortion. Based on the book by Nell Dunn, with a…
Up Tight (1968): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…; In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins; Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their secret agents plot to destroy it.