British cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a national shame

6:00am PDT - September 8th, 2018    joaquin phoenix - The Guardian (AU)

The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism? B illy Liar always was a great night out. “A brand new kind of escapist en…