When i first heard these new songs, they struck me as darker sounding. Saturday night and sunday morning opening scene youtube. Added to critical support at the time and its massive and unexpected box office success, it has some claim to be the most significant of the films of this period. Think of this thread as a shortened version of the film. Overview of saturday night and sunday morning, 1961, directed by karel reisz. Saturday night and sunday morning visiting some of the. Not in subject matter, but marty and kennys guitars had a darker sound overall. A film guide that looks at saturday night and sunday morning 1960, a seminal british film from the 1960s about a working class man who lives for the weekend. Based on a novel by alan sillitoe, it is very much of the social realism genre and could be used to view many sociological themes.
Ray winstone on saturday night and sunday morning bfi duration. Saturday night and sunday morning is the first novel by british author alan sillitoe and won the authors club first novel award it was adapted by sillitoe into a 1960 film starring albert finney, directed by karel reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by david brett as a play for the nottingham playhouse, with ian mckellen playing one of his first leading roles. This is wear some righteous, greasy country music is played by a tight band of master musicians. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe 3,619 ratings, 3. Le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr. Saturday night and sunday morning by sillitoe alan abebooks. The film is a great reminder of how nottingham looked in the early 60s. Saturday night and sunday morning movie clip eight pints. Saturday night and sunday morning, 1961, from alan sillitoes novel and screenplay. Film institute and the files of the completion guarantee company, film finances.
A resentful factory worker has a fling with a married woman, but ultimately settles for dull conformity. All of the old raleigh buildings seen in the film have now been replaced by modern housing, but the old buildings on the right still remain, although the two shops are now houses. Le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr admin 20170408t21. Reisz began his career in 1960 with a film version of the seminal working class novel saturday night and sunday morning which was penned by local author, alan sillitoe. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Sep 25, 2011 a rebellious, hardliving factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. Saturday night and sunday morning is one of the essential movies in the british new wave movement, and it performs terrifically as a time capsule of late 1950s british workingclass life. Working class drinkingman arthur albert finney joins pal bert norman rossington and his mum edna morris at the bar, soon meeting alluring doreen shirley anne field, in saturday night and sunday morning, 1961, directed by karel reisz. The entertainer 1960, saturday night and sunday morning 1960, a taste. It was adapted by sillitoe into a 1960 film starring albert finney, directed by. Saturday night and sunday morning cine outsider film and. While introducing saturday night and sunday morning 1960, ray winstone discusses his career and working with directors martin scorsese, gary oldman and alan clarke. Albert finney, hylda baker, shirley ann field, norman rossington, rachel roberts, shirley anne field show embed code.
Saturday night and sunday morning is still often regarded as one of the most important british films of the early sixties, one that captured the mood of the times and displayed a new frankness toward sex on the screen certain theatres in england refused to exhibit the film when it was first released. Both he and rachel roberts won bafta awards, while the film itself took the best british picture honour. Aug 12, 2015 the film is a great reminder of how nottingham looked in the early 60s. The film entered general release on the abc cinema circuit from late january 1961 and was a boxoffice success, being the third most popular film in britain that year. Saturday night and sunday morning film movie facebook. Saturday night and sunday morning 2000 in a nottingham factory, arthur seaton works in a mindless haze, but his weekends are even more muddled due to his love affairs and his alcohol problem. Film locations for saturday night and sunday morning 1960, in nottinghamshire and london. Its an adaptation of alan sillitoes 1958 novel which its director karel reisz carries to the screen with authenticity by shooting on location in and around nottingham production plants and public houses. Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives saturday. All of the old raleigh buildings seen in the film have now been replaced by modern housing, but the old buildings on the right still remain, although the two shops are now hous. This article was amended on saturday october 25 2008. Ray winstone on saturday night and sunday morning bfi. Portions of it were even filmed in the old home where sillitoe once lived. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 is the new wave film which has most preserved its reputation with modern critics.
Saturday night and sunday morning turner classic movies. Saturday night and sunday morning trailer 1961 video. Albert finneys powerhouse performance as a nottingham factory worker changed british screen acting, just as karel reiszs incisive and authentic film changed. Related questions and answers for characters in saturday night and sunday morning in the book saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe, is arthur an idealist or a. Saturday night and sunday morning movie clip not on. Jun 17, 2007 saturday night sunday morning trailer albert finney. Saturday night and sunday morning is one of the finest examples of cinema that emerged in britain from the late fifties and early sixties. Jul 25, 2019 saturday night and sunday morning is still often regarded as one of the most important british films of the early sixties, one that captured the mood of the times and displayed a new frankness toward sex on the screen certain theatres in england refused to exhibit the film when it was first released. Centering on a workingclass englishman with more than just a few wild oats to sow.
The opening credits of saturday night and sunday morning show the raleigh cycle workers going home along faraday road. Eclipse 5317621 country great britain format cd release date 3aug2009 2 cd boxset. Bryan pringle in saturday night and sunday morning 1960 albert finney in saturday night and. They have just reached the junction with cycle road. One of the key british new wave movies, it launched albert finney to stardom, as resentful factory worker, arthur seaton, and was made on location around nottingham in the midlands seaton works at the raleigh bicycle factory in radford, where the storys author, alan sillitoe, had. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 british drama film directed by karel reisz and produced by tony richardson. For it was saturday night, the best and bingiest gladtime of the week, one of the fiftytwo holidays in the slowturning big wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate sabbath. Shirley ann field eindigt onvermijdelijk voor het altaar. Saturday night and sunday morning film movie plot and.
Workingclass culture and work as portrayed in the texts. For sure there is a lot of despair on display here but there is also a glimmer of hope for happiness. A remarkable and influential drama that captures the despair of working class life, saturday night and sunday morning is superbly enacted and one of the best ofbritains angry young men dramas of the 60s. Saturday night and sunday morning karel reisz 1960 85min.
Guide a film guide that looks at saturday night and sunday morning 1960, exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion. Saturday night and sunday morning 1963 case study the. Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives have created another awesome piece of music. This guide is useful for exploring topics including pshe education and english in addition to highlighting themes surrounding health and wellbeing, love and relationships, family, abuse. The main theme that this essay will focus on however is gender.
Marty stuart and his fabulous superlatives saturday night. Albert finneys first movie, it is more a character study than a plotdriven film. A rebellious, hardliving factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. The film saturday night and sunday morning reisz, 1960 was filmed and set in 1963 nottingham. Saturday night and sunday morning was reiszs feature film debut, and was groundbreaking in many ways. Saturday nightsunday morning is a double album with saturday morning being disc 1.
Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 karel reisz. Apr 08, 2017 le film saturday night and sunday morning 1960 vostfr admin 20170408t21. Saturday night and sunday morning holds one principally as the portrait of a dimly dawning conscience, a boyintoman metamorphosis too consistently honest to permit false ironies or heroics. Bbc nottingham features saturday night and sunday morning. With albert finney, shirley anne field, rachel roberts, hylda baker. I have seen this film before, have now watched it again and will watch it in the future im sure.
Sep 05, 2002 reisz began his career in 1960 with a film version of the seminal working class novel saturday night and sunday morning which was penned by local author, alan sillitoe. Piled up passions were exploded on saturday night, and the effect of a weeks monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of. The sights and sounds of industrial nottingham resonate with a grimy thud as arthur seaton works his tedious factory job. The following year the same pattern was followed with the success of. Workingclass culture and work as portrayed in the texts and. The title is a reference to the gig happening on a saturday night and hugh announcing his departure the following day. Saturday night and sunday morning by alan sillitoe tells the story of arthur seaton, a young british man who spends his days doing repetitive work in a bicycle factory in nottingham and dreaming. Historic television grids for us networks saturday morning. It was a dark and stormy night as i drove down river street next to the trolley tracks into milton.
Saturday night and sunday morning quotes by alan sillitoe. Arthur seaton albert finney, stuck in a meaningless job with little hope for advancement beyond his. A year later, alan had written the screenplay which would be filmed in 1960. The collection of short stories, the loneliness of the longdistance runner, published the following year, confirmed the opinion that an important new writer had arrived in england. Total number of members who have this title in their. Saturday night and sunday morning was preceded by film adaptations of look back in anger 1958 and john braines room at the top 1959 and followed by movie versions of stan barstows a kind of loving 1962, sillitoes the loneliness of the long distance runner 1962, and david storeys this sporting life 1963, among many others.
Saturday night sunday morning is a double album with saturday morning being disc 1. To dull the pain of his life, he spends his time boozing on saturday nights, and having an affair with. Saturday night and sunday morning 1961 rotten tomatoes. A film guide that looks at saturday night and sunday morning 1960, exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion. Adapting his own novel, alan sillitoe draws on his own. This recording was eventually released in 1993, as saturday night, sunday morning. Saturday night and sunday morning is the first novel by british author alan sillitoe and won the authors club first novel award. Saturday night and sunday morning, among sillitoes early nottingham works, was adapted to the movie screen and made into a cinematic success with the adept acting of albert finney as arthur seaton. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 directed by karel.
Burnel, jet black and dave greenfield, with hugh cornwell not attending. Saturday night and sunday morning is a 1960 british drama film directed by. Saturday night and sunday morning trailer 1961 director. With tony richardson opting to coproduce saturday night and sunday. Saturday night and sunday morning lobby card for saturday night and sunday morning 1960, starring albert finney. Overview of the 1960 british film saturday night and sunday morning, a classic of the angry young men movement of film, theatre, and literature. Its an adaptation of alan sillitoes 1958 novel which its director karel reisz carries to the screen with authenticity by shooting on location in and. Full movie, english, classic film watchfree, cowboyfilm duration. Saturday night and sunday morning 2000 movie moviefone. Harry saltzman the producer famous for the james bond films had started the film company woodfall productions in the mid1950s, making social realism films like the iron petticoat 1956 and look back in anger 1959 directed by tony richardson. Saturday night and sunday morning soundtrack details. Scenes from saturday night sunday morning 60s nottingham. May 04, 2009 saturday morning 1961 grid usa from the tv iv. Saturday night and sunday morning 1960 directed by.
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