Lindsay Anderson
Nacimiento : 1923-04-17, Bangalore, India
Muerte : 1994-08-30
Historia
Director y crítico de cine británico, adalid del compromiso con las creencias morales y sociales. Su película más conocida If... (1968) expresó la protesta social mediante el humor surrealista y los efectos de distanciamiento. Tras servir en el ejército británico, Anderson asistió a la Universidad de Oxford mientras colaboraba en Sequence, una revista de cine de gran influencia. Se convirtió en un importante crítico, profesión desde la que mostró un especial interés en los trabajos del realizador británico Humphrey Jennings y del director estadounidense John Ford. También comenzó a dirigir cortometrajes documentales, entre los que destaca Every Day Except Christmas (1957), un reflejo poético del antiguo mercado de Covent Garden en Londres. El primer largometraje de Anderson fue El ingenuo salvaje (1963); entre sus otros trabajos se incluye Un hombre de suerte (1973). Llevó una carrera paralela en el teatro dirigiendo un gran número de producciones que cubren un amplio abanico de escritores contemporáneos, obras populares y reestrenos de clásicos. En 1987 dirigió su única película estadounidense, Las ballenas de agosto, un retrato sentimental de dos hermanas ancianas interpretadas por Bette Davis y Lillian Gish.
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Interviewee (archival)
A documentary about film director Lindsay Anderson, made for BBC Scotland television series "Artworks Scotland."
Himself
A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.
Self
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
Narrator
Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith
presenter
A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson.
Writer
A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson.
Presenter
Documentary about the early career of Hollywood film director John Ford, written and presented by Lindsay Anderson, and first aired on the British television series Omnibus.
Writer
Documentary about the early career of Hollywood film director John Ford, written and presented by Lindsay Anderson, and first aired on the British television series Omnibus.
Writer
Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly means to be Lindsay Anderson.
Director
Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly means to be Lindsay Anderson.
Self
Award winning director Lindsay Anderson subverts the mockumentary genre and presents to the audience a detailed and humored account of what truly means to be Lindsay Anderson.
Mr. Marshall (voice)
Comedia de enredo, sobre los equívocos entre personalidades que tienen lugar en un hotel veneciano: un asesino a sueldo, un agente inmobiliario, un alcalde en busca de mujeres más o menos fáciles... (FILMAFFINITY)
War Minister
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.
Narrator
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
Director
A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter planning an exposé.
Director
El paso del tiempo ha consolidado una sincera amistad entre las ancianas Sarah Webbber y Libby Strong, por encima de su condición de hermanas. Una isla de Maine es el lugar donde se han reunido cada verano durante más de sesenta años. Ambas son viudas, pero no olvidan los días en que eran jóvenes y corrían por la playa para ver surgir del mar a las grandes ballenas. Entonces estaban llenas de ilusiones. Ya ancianas, han permanecido unidas por una doble y mutua dependencia. Sin embargo, la ceguera que padece Libby la hace cada vez más antipática e irascible; Sarah, en cambio, conserva una imperturbable serenidad. El señor Maranov, un caballero de origen ruso, y el obrero Joshua Brackett, constiuyen el contrapunto masculino a un mundo de recuerdos y evocaciones de juventud.
Director
Best known for their radio staples "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper," the seminal 80s pop group Wham! (George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) shot Wham! In China: Foreign Skies circa 1985. In the resulting film, the group performs 12 numbers, including the aforementioned hits, "Ray Of Sunshine," "Blue," and "Young Guns (Go for It!)".
Director
A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.
Director
Comedia que trata sobre el personal de un hospital que, atemorizado, se prepara para la visita de nada más y nada menos que la reina de Inglaterra. El centro Britannia Hospital va a inaugurar un nuevo ala en su edificio y la soberana del país decide estar presente ese día. El pánico se extiende por todo el hospital, ante la visión de todo lo que puede ocurrir durante el esperado acontecimiento. La cocinera se niega a preparar el menú del día, los pintores se resisten a terminar su trabajo y los manifestantes que quieren derrocar a un dictador que se encuentra hospitalizado en el centro serán los encargados de crispar los ánimos al máximo nivel.
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) es un periodista que comienza un documental sobre un hospital. (FILMAFFINITY)
Master of Caius
En Gran Bretaña, 1920. Harold Abrahams y Eric Lidell estaban hechos para correr. No sólo una razón les llevaba a correr más rápido que ningún otro hombre, sus motivos eran tan diferentes como sus pasados. Cada uno tenía su propio Dios, sus propias creencias y su propio empuje hacia el triunfo. Dos jóvenes corredores de diferentes clases sociales que se entrenan con un mismo objetivo: competir en las Olimpiadas de París de 1924.
Director
Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business partner and best friend, who lives next door. Jimmy's marital problems come to a head when his wife discovers that she's pregnant and one of her friends, an actress, comes to stay with them. Based on the play, the story takes place in England in the 1950's.
Director
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Director
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don't work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time.
Director
En una ciudad minera de Yorkshire, tres hermanos universitarios vuelven a casa de sus padres proletarios para celebrar su 40 aniversario de boda, pero oscuros secretos les aguardan...
Director
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
Producer
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
Director
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
Director
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
Narrator
A short documentary profiling male impersonator Hetty King, a star of the Edwardian music hall still performing in her 87th year. Accompanied by her sister and dresser Olive, she reminisces about her career, applies her makeup, and performs at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne.
Producer
Polémica película en la que el pionero del Free Cinema inglés arremete contra la enseñanza superior y hace una sátira violenta y sin matices de los colegios superiores y del establishment británico.
Director
Polémica película en la que el pionero del Free Cinema inglés arremete contra la enseñanza superior y hace una sátira violenta y sin matices de los colegios superiores y del establishment británico.
Barrister
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
Self
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
Narrator
BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.
Director
Producer
Una impasible joven, harta de su modo de vida en Londres, decide abandonarlo todo y volver a su casa natal en el norte de Inglaterra. El viaje a sus raíces tendrá lugar en un peculiar autobús turístico. El viaje físico es una metáfora del viaje psíquico que ha de realizar la protagonista para volver a tomar las riendas de su vida. Película que supuso el debut cinematográfico como intérprete del genial Anthony Hopkins.
Director
Una impasible joven, harta de su modo de vida en Londres, decide abandonarlo todo y volver a su casa natal en el norte de Inglaterra. El viaje a sus raíces tendrá lugar en un peculiar autobús turístico. El viaje físico es una metáfora del viaje psíquico que ha de realizar la protagonista para volver a tomar las riendas de su vida. Película que supuso el debut cinematográfico como intérprete del genial Anthony Hopkins.
Man in traffic police booth (uncredited)
Película compuesta por tres episodios que representan varios aspectos del amor: la tentación, los sueños y la aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator (UK)
Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, who explains the history of the run-up to the American involvement in Vietnam. The film shows scenes of Vietnamese soldiers in trenches, American helicopters, agricultural workers, and children assembling anti-aircraft shells. A narrator speaks of the American invasion as being on par with the Germans during World War II and characterizes the Vietnamese as resistance fighters. Anti-American protests are shown. Ivens is shown interviewing Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese villagers build dams for rice paddies, make traps using bamboo spikes, and take cover during air raids. Scenes include the headquarters of the National Liberation Front, a military execution, bombings, and villagers attempting to shoot down US bomber planes.
Director
En un pueblo minero del norte de Inglaterra, Frank Machin triunfa como estrella de rugby en el equipo local. De carácter violento y arrogante, disfruta de la gloria y de la fama. Sin embargo, la relación con su casera, una joven viuda, le descubre una nueva forma de ser y de ver las cosas... Aclamado drama del pionero del Free Cinema inglés.
Director
Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter 1958.
Writer
Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.
Director
Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.
Supervising Editor
The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.
Narrator (voice)
Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.
Writer
Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.
Director
Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.
Screenplay
Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).
Director
Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).
Writer
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.
Director
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.
Production Manager
People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
Writer
Lindsay Anderson's early documentary film of a British amusement park, the irony of its manufactured fun on full display.
Director
Lindsay Anderson's early documentary film of a British amusement park, the irony of its manufactured fun on full display.
Writer
Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.
Director
Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.
Narrator
Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.
Director
Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.
Narrator (voice)
Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.
Editor
Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.
Director
Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.
