After graduating, Anderson worked for the final year of World War II as a cryptographer for the Intelligence Corps, at the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi. Anderson assisted in nailing the Red flag to the roof of the Junior Officers' mess in Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the general election was confirmed. The colonel did not approve, he recalled a decade later, but no disciplinary action was taken against them.
"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."
"I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack."
"Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up."
"I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation."
"I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything."
Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson
published: 30 Nov 2011
Lindsay Anderson on Tokyo Story
Lindsay Anderson (IF...., THIS SPORTING LIFE) speaks to the genius of Yasujiro Ozu and 1953's TOKYO STORY.
Available now on DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story
published: 10 Aug 2012
Lucky Man - A Portrait of Lindsay Anderson
The title is a reference to both Lindsay Anderson's film, 'O Lucky man', and his reflection on his own life in the opening of Ken McMullen's shrewd and sensitive documentary portrait:
"I've always been lucky...it's important to be lucky and then it is important to have the talent to use your luck".
...This is a portrait of an artist still driven by an exceptional probing intellect and insatiable curiosity: finally defiantly concluding, "I don't think one can regret anything, do you? It is fated what we are. Could anyone have ever been different?"
Lucky Man
37 minutes, uk English colour aspect ratio 1:33
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Hannah wiggin
Editor: Guy Landver
Cinematographer:Tony Costa
Music: David Cunningham
Discussion encouraged by Sean Lewis and John Cartwright
In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive IF…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling antiestablishment epic O LUCKY MAN! and the divisive gonzo comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITAL—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis character and his outlandish adventures in a through-the-looking-glass England. By turns surreal, shocking, and darkly funny, these furious satires simmer with rage at the hypocrisies of capitalism, institutional bureaucracy, and the British class system.
Watch the Trilogy now on the C...
published: 17 Apr 2020
Lindsay Anderson Wakefield Express 1952
Study of a traditional industrial community seen through the columns of its local newspaper.
Originally intended to be a film showing how the paper was printed, in Anderson's hands it became a much more personal study of the communal life of a group of towns in the West Riding area of Yorkshire. Wakefield Express was commissioned in 1952 by the eponymous newspaper to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The film follows the local reporters as they travel around the area in search of newsworthy events: the local rugby tea, a school concert, a constituency political meeting, the launching of a ship and the unveiling of a war memorial among others. Although it was made four years before the advent of Free Cinema, Wakefield Express can be seen as a transition between Anderson's early 'industria...
published: 03 Jul 2016
This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson 1962 | VOSE
published: 10 Mar 2022
Oh Lindsay! ( Lindsay Anderson Interview)
An interview with the filmmaker Lindsay Anderson about 1993.
published: 14 Dec 2015
Is That All There Is?
Lindsay Anderson bids us adieu...
published: 07 Dec 2013
This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson, 1963) Trailer
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British Free Cinema drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel.
published: 30 Apr 2019
Malcolm McDowell on Director Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell starred in several Anderson films including O Lucky Man.
Filmed for ECV Podcast
Lindsay Anderson (IF...., THIS SPORTING LIFE) speaks to the genius of Yasujiro Ozu and 1953's TOKYO STORY.
Available now on DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films...
Lindsay Anderson (IF...., THIS SPORTING LIFE) speaks to the genius of Yasujiro Ozu and 1953's TOKYO STORY.
Available now on DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story
Lindsay Anderson (IF...., THIS SPORTING LIFE) speaks to the genius of Yasujiro Ozu and 1953's TOKYO STORY.
Available now on DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story
The title is a reference to both Lindsay Anderson's film, 'O Lucky man', and his reflection on his own life in the opening of Ken McMullen's shrewd and sensitiv...
The title is a reference to both Lindsay Anderson's film, 'O Lucky man', and his reflection on his own life in the opening of Ken McMullen's shrewd and sensitive documentary portrait:
"I've always been lucky...it's important to be lucky and then it is important to have the talent to use your luck".
...This is a portrait of an artist still driven by an exceptional probing intellect and insatiable curiosity: finally defiantly concluding, "I don't think one can regret anything, do you? It is fated what we are. Could anyone have ever been different?"
Lucky Man
37 minutes, uk English colour aspect ratio 1:33
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Hannah wiggin
Editor: Guy Landver
Cinematographer:Tony Costa
Music: David Cunningham
Discussion encouraged by Sean Lewis and John Cartwright
The title is a reference to both Lindsay Anderson's film, 'O Lucky man', and his reflection on his own life in the opening of Ken McMullen's shrewd and sensitive documentary portrait:
"I've always been lucky...it's important to be lucky and then it is important to have the talent to use your luck".
...This is a portrait of an artist still driven by an exceptional probing intellect and insatiable curiosity: finally defiantly concluding, "I don't think one can regret anything, do you? It is fated what we are. Could anyone have ever been different?"
Lucky Man
37 minutes, uk English colour aspect ratio 1:33
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Hannah wiggin
Editor: Guy Landver
Cinematographer:Tony Costa
Music: David Cunningham
Discussion encouraged by Sean Lewis and John Cartwright
In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly s...
In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive IF…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling antiestablishment epic O LUCKY MAN! and the divisive gonzo comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITAL—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis character and his outlandish adventures in a through-the-looking-glass England. By turns surreal, shocking, and darkly funny, these furious satires simmer with rage at the hypocrisies of capitalism, institutional bureaucracy, and the British class system.
Watch the Trilogy now on the Criterion Channel! https://www.criterionchannel.com/lindsay-anderson-s-mick-travis-trilogy
In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive IF…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling antiestablishment epic O LUCKY MAN! and the divisive gonzo comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITAL—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis character and his outlandish adventures in a through-the-looking-glass England. By turns surreal, shocking, and darkly funny, these furious satires simmer with rage at the hypocrisies of capitalism, institutional bureaucracy, and the British class system.
Watch the Trilogy now on the Criterion Channel! https://www.criterionchannel.com/lindsay-anderson-s-mick-travis-trilogy
Study of a traditional industrial community seen through the columns of its local newspaper.
Originally intended to be a film showing how the paper was printed...
Study of a traditional industrial community seen through the columns of its local newspaper.
Originally intended to be a film showing how the paper was printed, in Anderson's hands it became a much more personal study of the communal life of a group of towns in the West Riding area of Yorkshire. Wakefield Express was commissioned in 1952 by the eponymous newspaper to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The film follows the local reporters as they travel around the area in search of newsworthy events: the local rugby tea, a school concert, a constituency political meeting, the launching of a ship and the unveiling of a war memorial among others. Although it was made four years before the advent of Free Cinema, Wakefield Express can be seen as a transition between Anderson's early 'industrial films' like Meet the Pioneers (1948) and his Free Cinema contributions, especially in the way in which he shows his interest in ordinary life and people, and expresses his own point of view as a filmmaker. In the words of the programme note, "there is nothing of the impartiality of the 'general survey' about the film's approach. Its perceptive, humanist outlook brings enough concern to the communal activities to view them, in turn, with affection and irony, exasperation and respect."
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16mm, 30 min, black & white
Director Lindsay Anderson
Production Company Michael Robinson;
Wakefield Express Ltd.
Cinematography Walter Lassally
Study of a traditional industrial community seen through the columns of its local newspaper.
Originally intended to be a film showing how the paper was printed, in Anderson's hands it became a much more personal study of the communal life of a group of towns in the West Riding area of Yorkshire. Wakefield Express was commissioned in 1952 by the eponymous newspaper to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The film follows the local reporters as they travel around the area in search of newsworthy events: the local rugby tea, a school concert, a constituency political meeting, the launching of a ship and the unveiling of a war memorial among others. Although it was made four years before the advent of Free Cinema, Wakefield Express can be seen as a transition between Anderson's early 'industrial films' like Meet the Pioneers (1948) and his Free Cinema contributions, especially in the way in which he shows his interest in ordinary life and people, and expresses his own point of view as a filmmaker. In the words of the programme note, "there is nothing of the impartiality of the 'general survey' about the film's approach. Its perceptive, humanist outlook brings enough concern to the communal activities to view them, in turn, with affection and irony, exasperation and respect."
--------------
16mm, 30 min, black & white
Director Lindsay Anderson
Production Company Michael Robinson;
Wakefield Express Ltd.
Cinematography Walter Lassally
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British Free Cinema drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Al...
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British Free Cinema drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel.
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British Free Cinema drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel.
Lindsay Anderson (IF...., THIS SPORTING LIFE) speaks to the genius of Yasujiro Ozu and 1953's TOKYO STORY.
Available now on DVD: http://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story
The title is a reference to both Lindsay Anderson's film, 'O Lucky man', and his reflection on his own life in the opening of Ken McMullen's shrewd and sensitive documentary portrait:
"I've always been lucky...it's important to be lucky and then it is important to have the talent to use your luck".
...This is a portrait of an artist still driven by an exceptional probing intellect and insatiable curiosity: finally defiantly concluding, "I don't think one can regret anything, do you? It is fated what we are. Could anyone have ever been different?"
Lucky Man
37 minutes, uk English colour aspect ratio 1:33
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Hannah wiggin
Editor: Guy Landver
Cinematographer:Tony Costa
Music: David Cunningham
Discussion encouraged by Sean Lewis and John Cartwright
In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive IF…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling antiestablishment epic O LUCKY MAN! and the divisive gonzo comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITAL—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis character and his outlandish adventures in a through-the-looking-glass England. By turns surreal, shocking, and darkly funny, these furious satires simmer with rage at the hypocrisies of capitalism, institutional bureaucracy, and the British class system.
Watch the Trilogy now on the Criterion Channel! https://www.criterionchannel.com/lindsay-anderson-s-mick-travis-trilogy
Study of a traditional industrial community seen through the columns of its local newspaper.
Originally intended to be a film showing how the paper was printed, in Anderson's hands it became a much more personal study of the communal life of a group of towns in the West Riding area of Yorkshire. Wakefield Express was commissioned in 1952 by the eponymous newspaper to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The film follows the local reporters as they travel around the area in search of newsworthy events: the local rugby tea, a school concert, a constituency political meeting, the launching of a ship and the unveiling of a war memorial among others. Although it was made four years before the advent of Free Cinema, Wakefield Express can be seen as a transition between Anderson's early 'industrial films' like Meet the Pioneers (1948) and his Free Cinema contributions, especially in the way in which he shows his interest in ordinary life and people, and expresses his own point of view as a filmmaker. In the words of the programme note, "there is nothing of the impartiality of the 'general survey' about the film's approach. Its perceptive, humanist outlook brings enough concern to the communal activities to view them, in turn, with affection and irony, exasperation and respect."
--------------
16mm, 30 min, black & white
Director Lindsay Anderson
Production Company Michael Robinson;
Wakefield Express Ltd.
Cinematography Walter Lassally
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British Free Cinema drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel.
After graduating, Anderson worked for the final year of World War II as a cryptographer for the Intelligence Corps, at the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi. Anderson assisted in nailing the Red flag to the roof of the Junior Officers' mess in Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the general election was confirmed. The colonel did not approve, he recalled a decade later, but no disciplinary action was taken against them.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press... TikTok has called the claims inaccurate ... Associated Press writers Haleluya Hadero, Mae Anderson and Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report. Hadero reported from South Bend, Indiana, and Anderson from New York. .
Corrupt bobbies ... When the Royal Court Theatre’s LindsayAnderson directed it in 1973, the left was as keen as today’s online right to howl in anguish at a UK that had gone to the dogs. Anderson had form in this regard ... ×. .
Puzzles ...Walter has not just mastered the famous walk, with its stiff yet purposeful gait, and the voice that dips suddenlyinto soapy sincerity but, more than GillianAnderson, LindsayDuncan or even Meryl Streep, she goes beyond mere impersonation ... .
Baltimore Sun
18 Jan 2025
Baltimore Sun
18 Jan 2025