7:30 'my summer of love'

>>dir. Pawel Pawlikovsky

my summer of love is freely adapted from a novel by helen cross, and is a tale of romantic and erotic subversion with jeanette winterson's oranges are not the only fruit in its dna. there are also antecedents in peter jackson 's heavenly creatures, lynne ramsay's morvern callar and catherine hardwicke's thirteen. girl meets girl one lazy, hazy summer and the unique intensity of female friendship - so much more vivid than anything experienced by or with those hopeless boys - has a fissile power, an irresistible ignition of strength.

9:30 ' the loneliness of the long distance runner'

<<dir.tony richardson [1962]

this masterful adaptation of alan sillitoe's award-winning short story provided a young tom courtenay with his first feature role. forty years on, his debut as the rebellious northerner colin smith remains as fresh and vital as the film itself. alan sillitoe adapted the first from his own novel, the second from his own short story, and in each case its young protagonist announces in an introductory voiceover that he is in rebellion against conformism and/or the middle-class status quo. both contain revelatory performances, by albert finney and tom courtenay respectively; and both, like other key movies of the british "new wave" of the 1960s, are set in the bleak, industrial north.