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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave.
Lindsay Anderson. Director: If..... Lindsay was born in Bangalore, India but educated in England at Cheltenham College and Wadham College, Oxford where he was a classical scholar. He then spent 3 years war time service in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
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- Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
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- Saint-Saud-Lacoussière, Dordogne, France
Lindsay Gordon Anderson. Mini Bio. Lindsay started as a film critic in the late 1940's early 50's writing and editing The Review and contributing to The Times, Observer and The New Statesman.
Aug 30, 2022 · Lindsay Anderson is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of the British New Wave. Known for his culturally important works such as If…, Anderson introduced bold ideas to the framework of British cinema and was a major artistic voice during the development of the Free Cinema movement in the country.
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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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...
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May 14, 2014 · Lindsay Anderson's Singular Path. L indsay Anderson, the perennial outsider in English film circles, remained throughout his life the clarion caller for his generation. Contemporaries of his like John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, and Karel Reisz sooner or later all responded to the seductive appeal of the studios, but Lindsay (like his younger ...
