Malcolm McDowell's terrific and terriifically funny one man show about the legendary film director Lindsay Anderson.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17282 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 111 minutes

Synopsis
Malcolm McDowell discusses the work of Indian-born film, theatre and documentary director Lindsay Anderson (IF...., O LUCKY MAN!). Featuring archive interviews with Anderson himself, plus stars including Alan Bates, Bette Davis, John Gielgud, Richard Harris, Laurence Olivier and many more.

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Customer Reviews

Some fascinating insight for film buffs
Lindsay Anderson directed some of Britain's most acclaimed fims (This Sporting Life, If... etc) and plays and was a complicated and intriguing person. This one-man presentation by Malcolm McDowell, who starred in Anderson's trilogy If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, shares his memories of the man in a way that is touching but never sentimental (Anderson would have hated sentimentality!) and insightful without ever forgetting to be entertaining.

Those familiar with Anderson's films will find this a remarkable set of reminiscences put across with great gusto (especially McDowell's mimicking the voices of the various actors involved), a fitting tribute to a real 'auteur' of British cinema. I once met and interviewed him myself for a student magazine in the early eighties, shortly after the undeserved critical mauling of Britannia Hospital - unappreciated in an era of yuppification - and again later at the National Film Theatre for a performance of If... (a seminal film for anyone who has ever dreamed of machine-gunning down his headmaster). This DVD brought those memories flooding back.

A worthwhile reminder that British filmmaking wasn't all James Bond, Hammer horror and the Carry On series.