在英国现代电影史上,1960年并不是一个新时期的开端。因为受纪录电影推动而兴起的“自由电影”运动始于五十年代末,其代表人物有林赛·安德森、卡雷尔·赖兹和托尼·理查森等导演。1962年后,这一运动又开始低落了。自1963年,代之而起的一种很能说明迄今英国电影特点的现象,是电影的“国际化”——几部独立摄制的影片除外。这种“国际化”的表现形式有三 In the history of British modern film, 1960 is not the beginning of a new era. The “free movie” movement, which emerged as a result of documentary filmmaking, started in the late fifties with directors such as Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reitz and Tony Richardson. After 1962, the movement began to decline again. Since 1963, a phenomenon that is very much representative of the characteristics of British cinema so far is the “internationalization” of the movie, with the exception of several independently produced films. There are three manifestations of this “internationalization.”