I've got some pages on stars of 60s films, principally on Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Tom Courtenay, Peter Sellers and Norman Wisdom, but there are many, many others that I would love to write about.  At the moment I have come to realise that Michael Crawford, who I know, like many of my age, from TV's 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em', was in some pretty key films of the decade, so I may do a page on him in the not too distant future, but there are two or three actresses that might jump the queue, particularly Ann Lynn, Sylvia Syms and Julia Foster (above).  I never had the courage to ask her for an interview, but I still delude myself that I might one day.   I also still hope to see her appearing at one of the Renown Talking Pictures festival days, here's hoping. 

If I started off with the intention of just writing about individual films, I soon went off at a tangent and many of the pages on the website are on general themes - Swinging London, Carry On films (see left), New Wave films (hate the expression 'Kitchen Sink'!) - and I ended up adding some non-60s pages, for example on the 1940s spiv cycle of films, or 'low-life' films of the 1930s.  The pages that I am most pleased with though are the ones that just celebrate unusual aspects of the films of the time, the main example being the page on The Smiths and 60s film culture.

Ideas for future pages include Harold Pinter scripts, recent films that look back at and recreate the period, and Ken Loach's TV and film work in the 1960s.

Another section I'm pleased with is the one on book-to-film adaptations in the 60s, as I think detailed articles on such adapations are quite rare.  I've always been very interested in reading the original novel after seeing certain films, so I decided to focus on famous films adapted from not-so-famous books.  

This section includes pages on The Leather Boys, Get Carter (originally published as 'Jack's Return Home') and The Collector (see right) and I've recently added pages on some New Wave films - A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar - as well as on a film from the 1940s, Kind Hearts and Coronets (see above).   There aren't that many pages so far, partly because it's difficult to find the right film/book, but mainly because they are the most difficult and time-intensive pages to write, and I am essentially lazy.  Unlike the pages on unsung films, for example, where I can just watch a film, edit a few clips, find a few pics and then just ramble on about any old thing, for these pages I really have to focus on characterisation, setting, narrative and how they compare.  Still, the effort is worth it in my view as once done, they are some of the best pages on the site, although I do say so myself.

Early on I wrote up two pages on recommended books and DVD outlets for films of the period, and although they should be updated more often than they are, I hope they remain relevant.

The best book on British 60s cinema is still Robert Murphy's book (see left), but there are lots and lots of others on various aspects of the films of the time, which reinforces my point that British 60s films are so varied that they appeal across the board to all sorts of different people - and that's without even mentioning two of the most popular genres, James Bond (which I have no interest in) and horror films (which I dislike as a rule).

The page on DVDs focuses on the main retail outlets for British films - Renown, Network on Air etc - as well as the various 'obscure film' sellers that I've managed to find out about, such as myrarefilms.co.uk, who have cheap copies of hard-to-get films.