Watch an exclusive extract from Michael Winner’s first ever film,1957’s The Square, a black-and-white short revolving around a serious skiffle music knees-up in King’s Cross, London. Left to the British Film Institute by Winner in his will and never released in cinemas, the film can now be seen for the first time as part of Other Grooves, a newly-added strand to the Britain on Film on the BFI Player video on demand service
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- 7/8/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winner—the British film director best remembered for his collaborations with Charles Bronson, including the Death Wish film series—has died at the age of 77. Winner tunneled into the movie industry from the lower reaches of show business, having started out as a teenage gossip columnist, first for the Kensington Post, where he had a regular column at age 14, and then for something called the Showgirl Glamour Revue. In his early twenties, Winner began working in television and wrote and directed a short film, The Square, in 1956. His earliest features as a director tended to be ...
- 1/21/2013
- avclub.com
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