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‘Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema’ Captures the Changes in Britain’s Fortunes

‘Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema’ Captures the Changes in Britain’s Fortunes

Social realist films would spearhead the so-called British New Wave and Woodfall Films produced some of the New Wave's best and most enduring examples of the form.

Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense

Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense

The French Lieutenant’s Woman has not aged well, and this has to do with the failure of postmodernism and poststructuralism to contribute anything useful to popular culture.