Lindsay Anderson
Birthday: Born in 1923-04-17 in Bangalore, India
Deathday: 1994-08-30
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an English director and film critic, best known for his association with the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lindsay Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Character: Self
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors....
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius....
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Chariots of Fire
Character: Master of Caius
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest....
Blame It on the Bellboy
Character: Mr. Marshall (voice)
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them was sent by his employer to inspect a property his boss wants to buy. All three men stay at the same hotel. But when the bellboy gets their names mixed up and gives info meant for someone else. So one of them meets a Realtor who will whatever she has to...
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
Character: Narrator
Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith...
Words in Progress
Character:
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals....
Is That All There Is?
Character: 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....
Martyrs of Love
Character: Man in traffic police booth (uncredited)
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their id...
The Pleasure Garden
Character: Michael-Angelico
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities....
Talking with Ozu
Character: 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...
Omnibus: John Ford, Part One
Character: 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....
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Character: Narrator
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker....
Inadmissible Evidence
Character: 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....
O Lucky Man!
Character: Director
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism....
John Ford
Character: presenter
A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson....
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
Character: Narrator (voice)
BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance....
About "The White Bus"
Character: Self
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post....
Prisoner of Honor
Character: 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....
The Threatening Sky
Character: 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 resist...
Meet the Pioneers
Character: Narrator (voice)
Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company....
Lucky Man
Character: Himself
A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson....