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- This Sporting Life
- The White Bus
- If…
- O Lucky Man!
- In Celebration
- Britannia Hospital
One of the major achievements within the domain of kitchen sink realism, This Sporting Life, is an unforgettable portrait of masculinity and existentialism. The film explores the manifestation of human ugliness in a world stripped of its moral cores. It tells the story of a rugby player who earns all kinds of accolades on the field, but his inner w...
Another landmark in the history of British cinema, The White Busis an avant-garde 1967 short feature which incorporates surreal elements. It follows an ennui-filled young office clerk who boards a bus from North London but gets taken on a bizarre journey. Shot in about a month, The White Busis one of Anderson’s most personal works because it brings...
One of the greatest British satirical works of the 20th century, If…was the film which established Anderson as a major artist within the landscape of global cinema. It is a continuation of Anderson’s anti-establishment tendencies, articulated in brilliant ways. Thefilm stars Malcolm McDowelland explores the pernicious ideological repression in educ...
The next step in the legacy of McDowell’s iconic character in If…, O Lucky Man!is a strange musical which serves as a poignant critique of capitalism. Initially, it was developed from McDowell’s experiences as a coffee salesman during his 20s. Anderson conceptualised it as a documentary about Alan Price, but it became the second instalment of the f...
An adaptation of David Storey’s eponymous theatrical production, In Celebration, is set in a Derbyshire mining town. It is about three brothers who left searching for professional careers, but their fate has led them to wildly differing places. Playing with the tension of a family reunion, Anderson created a family drama which is full of suspense a...
The final addition to the Mick Travis trilogy, Britannia Hospital, situates McDowell’s character in a surreal version of Britain. After seeing him as a delinquent student and a coffee salesman, we witness the final leg of his journey, where he appears to be a reporter. Anderson reflected: “The film ends with a question mark, not a solution, and peo...
Apr 13, 2024 · Lindsay Anderson, British critic and film and stage director who was a member of the Free Cinema and Angry Young Men movements. His first feature-length motion picture, This Sporting Life, is a classic of the British social realist cinema of the 1960s. Learn more about Anderson’s life and career.
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This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting ...
Sep 3, 2004 · Ten years after Lindsay Anderson's death, Malcolm McDowell explains why he can't let go of the director who changed his life.
Material & Correspondence from the Lindsay Anderson Archive. Lindsay Anderson’s leather jacket. The Archive is over 200 linear metres in size, comprising of over 150 archive boxes, over 2000 of Anderson’s books and over 700 video cassettes.
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