Directed by John Schlesinger; screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall; cinematography by Denys Coop; music by Richard Rodney Bennett; edited by Roger Cherrill; starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Fin lay Currie, Leonard Rossiter. B&W, 98 mins., DVD. A...

On page, stage, large and small screen, Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar has, since 1959, become a minor proverbial figure in English culture. Some of this is obviously due to Billy's having taken his place among the motley escape committee of Jimmys, Arthurs and Vics...

The New York Film Society of Lincoln Center continues its month-long series of reappraisals of gifted—and even honored-in-their-own-time—film icons, with a four-film revival May 25 and May 26 of John Schlesinger’s British-made Billy Liar (1963) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and his American-made Midnight Cowboy...

AWAY FROM HER Running Time 110 minutes Written and directed by Sarah Polley Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, from her own screenplay, based on the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro, plays out...

Discusses a production of the play `Billy Liar.' Describes the character Geoffrey Fisher and details the type of actor that should play him and how he should be directed.