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Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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How Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was made into a film.

Simon Heffer reveals how Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was turned into a celebrated 1960 film, starring Albert Finney as the anti-hero Arthur Seaton.

Simon Heffer continues his highly-authored and deeply-informed exploration of British cinema by viewing five New Wave or so-called "Kitchen Sink" films of the late 1950s and 1960s. 

Having explored the stereotyping of working class characters in his previous series of Essays on British film, Simon Heffer turns his gaze upon the films written and directed by a new generation of grammar school-educated young men, whose gritty depiction of the lives of ordinary working men and women was to shock and delight the cinema-going public in the 1960s.

2.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Simon Heffer reveals how Alan Sillitoe's novel was turned into a stunning film, directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Tony Richardson, and starring Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero whose motto is "Don't Let the bastards grind you down". 

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Simon Heffer on five New Wave or 'kitchen sink drama' films of the late 1950s and 1960s

As part of his exploration of British cinema, Author and journalist Simon Heffer discusses five New Wave or 'kitchen sink drama' films of the late 1950s and 1960s

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