Walter Lassally

  • Q&A with Rita Tushingham for A Taste of Honey

  • Saturday Night (1948) (1)

  • Look at Britain - 2 We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959) (2)

  • A Taste of Honey (1961) (1)

  • Stills (2)

Highlighted works

Rita Tushingham delivers a BAFTA-winning performance as a resilient Salford schoolgirl making her way in the world in this classic of 1960s British cinema.

Tom, the adopted son of Squire Allworthy, is the roguish but good-hearted hero in Tony Richardson’s uproarious screen adaptation of Henry Fielding’s 1749 novel.

In this key film of the 1960s British New Wave, class tensions surface as borstal boy Tom Courtenay competes in a cross-country race against public-school rivals.

Director Mike Sarne attempted to bring the daring and vivacity of European cinema to a frothy London tale of a free-spirited art student and her search for love.

This lively Free Cinema short captures a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club, where teenagers jive to trad jazz.

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village is explored through the memories of an old man in this lyrical, poetic film from filmmaker and painter David Gladwell.

This energetic documentary was one of the last films to appear under the banner of the Free Cinema movement.

Filmography

1946
1948
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1967
1968
1969
  • Twinky Director of Photography
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1986
1988
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
2001
2002
2009
2013
Unknown year

Related articles

From Sight & Sound magazine, Spring 1956.

National Film Theatre interview with Karel Reisz, David Robinson, Lorenza Mazzetti and Walter Lassally, March 2001.

From Sight & Sound magazine, Spring 1980