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Aug 31, 2016 · But there is some logic in arguing that the ‘High Sixties’ began for the British film industry in 1964, with the end of the New Wave cycle of northern ‘kitchen sink’ films, the appearance of the ‘Swinging London’ films, the wholesale transition to colour and, finally, the death of the ‘B’ movie – which, one can argue, belonged to a different era of British cinema ...
- Laura Margaret Jayne Mayne
- 2017
The rise of the modern British B-movie. 'Beg, borrow and steal' is the mantra for a new generation of directors pumping out hugely successful low-budget films. From magazine issue: 25 March 2023 ...
- Robert Jackman
BBC Four documentary from 2008 about the history of British B-Movies presented by Matthew Sweet. Addeddate 2024-01-17 00:36:35 Identifier
- 89 min
- Face It, Early Films Were All B Movies
- B Movies Serve as A Backbench For The A-List
- They Are A Vital Part of The Economic Health of The Film Industry
- Cult Films Change The Landscape of The Film Market
- B Movies Showcase The Lifeblood of Filmmaking: Passion
In early Hollywood, studios were less concerned with recruiting good actors and/or writers than they were with simply getting a film pushed out to the theaters to make their box office money. Going to the movie theatre was cheap entertainment, and audiences were captivated by the novelty of film rather than the stories themselves. Then in the fifti...
Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, and James Cagney were all once considered B listers. Now they are names that are forever branded into filmmaking history. A great example is one of the most famous B movies ever, a film which still has a rabid cult following and doesn’t show any signs of quitting. Even relatively small cities will usually have regul...
Every film production creates jobs within the industry. Even a low-budget B movie creates jobs beyond the actors and writers and camera operators. Craft services, costuming, set building, effects, studio rentals, landscaping, electricians, plumbing, mechanics, even air conditioning are all parts of a production budget. There is a good reason that c...
Just because a movie has a B level budget doesn’t mean that it has to be a bad film. There is a certain freedom in making a film outside the control of the major studios. You can bend or break the filmmaking “rules” and create something truly unique. In fact, that happens often and what comes out is a piece of art that, for all its flaws and imperf...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX0txX4F4E Filmmaking is, at heart, a passion industry. Many books can be written about the fascinating creatives who pour their heart and souls into filmmaking. In fact, many books have been written about individuals like that. The thing is, there is no way a film gets made by people who are apathetic about their a...
- Dani Whitehead
May 22, 2017 · Film historian Matthew Sweet presents a documentary reappraising over half a century of British B movies, from John Mills on the wrong end of a whipping in T...
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- Darren Wilshaw
so much like going into religion as getting into a select club" (1993; 77), then, in terms of the field of film, the British B movie was permanently blackballed. In trying to understand this body of forgotten British films, one needs to raise such key issues as: (a) how the B films answered an indus-48
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Recommended B movie: Witness in the Dark (1959) Dermot Walsh (1924 - 2002) was an Irish actor of stage and screen, born in Dublin, who played the titular character in the TV series 'Richard the Lionheart' in the early 60s. He was in 40s films such as The Mark of Cain, Hungry Hill and Jassy, going on to make numerous B films in the 1950s and beyond.
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