While I was watching Saturday Night And Sunday Morning on Mubi, I came to realise that there would probably be rather a lot of people from nations other than the UK watching this film and attempting to understand what the hell people were talking about here. Which amuses me greatly, especially as they didn't provide subtitles.

So, for those of you from outside this country struggling with some of the terminology in this film or about to watch it for the first time, here's a short glossary of some of the terms you will hear more than once in this film:-

* bleeder: A person of ill-repute - "Some bleeder in Wal-Mart stood on my foot!"

* summat: Another way…

A few weeks in the life of Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham factory worker played by Albert Finney who fancies a pint, a fag, and a tumble; who's even more pathetic than the townsfolk he loathes; who's a terminally selfish and self-destructive asshole. Here are three incidents from late in the film:

1) Arthur foolishly climbs onto a carnival ride alongside the married woman (Rachel Roberts) with whom he's been sleeping. Two soldiers in league with her mild-mannered husband are standing on the outer perimeter of the ride as it goes 'round and around, waiting for Arthur to hop off. The camera catches Arthur and Brenda in a series of tight two shots on the ride itself, with light and shadow…

Albert Finney is on fire in this 1960 entry of the "Kitchen Sink/British New Wave. Based on Alan Sillitoe's excellent novel of the same name, Finney plays Arthur Seaton, a young lad working as a machinist who loves nothing better than drinking, smoking, and fucking. He's having an affair with a co-worker's wife (Rachel Roberts) when he meets Doreen (Shirley Anne Field). He juggles both of them for a while but it isn't long before one of them in pregnant and he finds himself having to make some grown-up decisions.

Finney is extraordinary in this. Honestly, I feel like he's severely unappreciated as an actor. He's had a fantastic career with memorable roles spanning 50 years. I'll plug one of…

There's something really self-consciously big about the way Albert Finney plays the lead character Arthur here, swaggering into pub rooms and bellowing his opinions as if he expects everyone around him to care. Getting into fights, making enemies with the neighbours, playing unfunny pranks on his co-workers. He is, in short, a massive a**hole, but yet somehow manages to make this character endearing, after a fashion. Of course, it's shot and edited with a marvellous economy, and the writing is on fine form too, so it's never less than a pleasure to watch, whatever borderline nastiness and misanthropy is on show from Arthur. You get the feel that for a lot of people, this must be the iconic British 'new…

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960) is the directorial debut of Czech-born Karel Reisz, and is the known as one of the original "angry young man" films of the 60s. It also displays what woudl be known as "kitchen sink realism." Albert Finney plays a young working stiff, Arthur, looking to live life to it's fullest and avoid falling into "the family trap" like so many of those around him. He is having an affair with a married wife of a co-worker, Rachel Roberts, all the while courting a n younger woman, Doreen, Shirley Ann Field. The film is based on a mostly autobiographical novel by Allan Silitoe and the brash young anti hero seemed to strike a chord with…

A slice of life of a hard working hard playing 1960s man Arthur (Albert Finney) . The tide was turning in the 1950s and young people were less conforming than their parents, Arthur is an angry rebel , not obvious why as he earns a good wage and blows off steam at the weekends with a serious Saturday night drinking session and relaxes by fishing on Sunday afternoon.. He's having an affair with an older married woman Brenda (Rachel Roberts) then starts another relationship with Doreen (Shirley Anne Field) if life wasn't complicated enough Brenda gets pregnant and finds out about Doreen. This is an unsanitised look at life, Finney is so believable , he looks so real in the…