This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition.Format: HardcoverAuthor: Gavin LambertISBN10: 0679445986ISBN13: 9780679445982 Lindsay Anderson was the most original British filmmaker and theatrical director of his generation. His filmsIf . , O Lucky Man!,andBritannia Hospitalcreated a Human Comedy of life in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century and were witty, daring, and often prophetic.This Sporting LifeandO Lucky Man!made Richard Harris and Malcolm McDowell international stars;The Whales of Augustprovided Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, and Ann Sothern the opportunity to give extraordinary farewell performances. He also directed notable documentaries in several countries: in Britain, the Academy Award-winningThursdays Children,about a school for deaf-mute children; in Poland,The Singing Lesson,a personal impression of a group of students at a drama school. In China, he recorded the 1985 concert tour by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of WHAM! As a theatre director he collaborated with playwright David Storey on a series of successes The Contractor, The Changing Room, In Celebration, Home , and he worked with such actors as John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Helen Mirren, Peter OToole, Joan Plowright, and Rachel Roberts. Anderson was, as well, an outspoken and sometimes ferocious critic of British films-and of Britain itself. He was the author of the most important and acclaimed book on John Ford. And he was one of Gavin Lamberts closest friends for more than fifty years. Lamberts book begins with his and Andersons days as movie-struck schoolboys, becoming fast friends, growing up in the shadow of World War II. He shows us their postwar creation of and collaboration on the influential magazineSequence-a magazine that was produced on love and a shoestring, and which shook up the British film world with its admiration for both Hollywood noir and MGM musicals at the time unfashionable genres and its celebration of such directors as Ford, Buuel, Cocteau, Vigo, and Sturges. He describes how both men rebelled in opposite directions-Anderson remaining in England, Lambert leaving in 1958 for Los Angeles-and traces their unorthodox paths through the film industry. An illuminating, multifaceted portrait-of a friendship, of postwar moviemaking on both sides of the Atlantic, and, mainly, of the remarkable Lindsay Anderson. This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. Lindsay Anderson was the most original British filmmaker and theatrical director of his generation. His filmsIf . . . , O Lucky Man!,andBritannia Hospitalcreated a Human Comedy of life in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century and were witty, daring, and often prophetic.This Sporting LifeandO Lucky Man!made Richard Harris and Malcolm McDowell international stars;The Whales of Augustprovided Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, and Ann Sothern the opportunity to give extraordinary farewell performances. He also directed notable documentaries in several countries: in Britain, the Academy Award-winningThursday's Children,about a school for deaf-mute children; in Poland,The Singing Lesson,a personal impression of a group of students at a drama school. In China, he recorded the 1985 concert tour by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of WHAM! As a theatre director he collaborated with playwright David Storey on a series of successes (The Contractor, The Changing Room, In Celebration, Home), and he worked with such actors as John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, and Rachel Roberts. Anderson was, as well, an outspoken and sometimes ferocious critic of British films--and of Britain itself. He was the author of the most important and acclaimed book on John Ford. And he was one of Gavin Lambert's closest friends for more than fifty years. Lambert's book begins with his and Anderson's days as movie-struck schoolboys, becoming fast friends, growing up in the shadow of World War II. He shows us their postwar creation of and collaboration on the influential magazineSequence--a magazine that was produced on love and a shoestring, and which shook up the British film world with its admiration for both Hollywood noir and MGM musicals (at the time unfashionable genres) and its celebration of such directors as Ford, Buuel, Cocteau, Vigo, and Sturges. He describes how both men rebelled in opposite directions--Anderson remaining in England, Lambert leaving in 1958 for Los Angeles--and traces their unorthodox paths through the film industry. An illuminating, multifaceted portrait--of a friendship, of postwar moviemaking on both sides of the Atlantic, and, mainly, of the remarkable Lindsay Anderson.
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