AFS Essentials: Look Back in Anger

Tomorrow, as part of the new AFS Essential Cinema series "Blokes 'n Birds: British Realist Cinema, 1958-1965", Look Back in Anger will bring its critique of postwar British identity to Alamo South Lamar.

Richard Burton stars as a disaffected, angry, undirected young man stuck in a flat and bullying his wife for an outlet--as clearly shown in the above still. (Too bad he didn't happen to live in America...the Beats had an excellent road-n-drugs cure for that sort of male malaise.) The AFS' Chale Nafus writes that this is a performance in which you can clearly see Burton's talent, "when he still cared for acting".

AFS Essentials: Look Back in Anger
Tuesday, September 4th
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
7pm, $4 / Free to AFS members
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