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Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in England in the mid-1950s. The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson, though he later disdained the 'movement' tag, with Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti. The movement began with a programme of three short films at the National Film Theatre, London on 5 February 1956. The programme was such a success that five more programmes appeared under the Free Cinema banner before the founders decided to end the series. The last event was held in March 1959. Three of the screenings consisted of work from overseas film makers. ==Background== Anderson and Reisz had previously founded, with Gavin Lambert, the short-lived, but influential journal ''Sequence''. Of which Anderson later wrote '"No Film Can Be Too Personal". So ran the initial pronouncement in the first Free Cinema manifesto. It could equally well have been the motto of SEQUENCE'.〔(SEQUENCE: Introduction to a Reprint ), ''Lindsay Anderson Archive'', University of Stirling, accessed 13 February 2008〕 The manifesto was drawn up by Lindsay Anderson and Lorenza Mazzetti at a Charing Cross cafe called ''The Soup Kitchen'', where Mazzetti worked. It reads: These films were not made together; nor with the At an interview in 2001, Mazzetti explained that the reference to size was prompted by the then-new experiments in CinemaScope and other large screen formats. "The image speaks" was an assertion of the primacy of the image over the sound. Reisz said that "An attitude means a style" meant that "a style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."〔(Interview ) in 2001 at BFI involving Free Cinema pioneers David Robinson, Walter Lassally, Lorenza Mazzetti and Karel Reisz, chaired by Kevin MacDonald〕 The first Free Cinema programme featured just three films: # Anderson's ''O Dreamland'' (1953), previously unshown, about an amusement park in Margate, Kent # Reisz and Richardson's ''Momma Don't Allow'' (1956), about a Wood Green (North London) jazz club # Horne and Mazzetti's ''Together'' (1956), a fiction based on a short story by Denis Horne about a pair of deaf-mute dockworkers in London's East End.〔 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/439078/index.html〕 The films were accompanied by the above provocative film manifesto, written chiefly by Anderson, which brought the film-makers valuable publicity. Later programmes brought in like minded filmmakers, among them Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta (with ''Nice Time''), Michael Grigsby and Robert Vas. The two film technicians closely associated with the movement were Walter Lassally and John Fletcher. The three of the six programmes were devoted to foreign work, included the new Polish cinema (fourth programme), emerging French New Wave (fifth programme) and American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin was invited to screen his ground breaking film ''On the Bowery'' at the second Free cinema programme in September 1956. That event also included the work of Norman McLaren and Georges Franju. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Free Cinema」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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