Tuesday | July 2, 2002 9:00 pm

Look Back in Anger

B is for Burton
Screening on Film

Directed by Tony Richardson.
With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure.
UK, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
Print source: HFA

In this powerful adaptation of the John Osbourne drama, Richard Burton gives one of his finest performances on film as Jimmy Porter, an ill-tempered and arrogant young man with a grudge against the establishment and disdain for those around him. Angered by the absence of opportunity, Jimmy becomes a symbol for a lost generation of working-class, university-educated young men.