Lindsay Anderson
Also Known As: Линдсей Андерсон
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bangalore, India
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Birthday: April 17, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 30, 1994
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Chariots of Fire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Blame It on the Bellboy
Overview: 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, to close the sale. And another follows a woman looking for romance. And another goes to the home of the mobster who thinks he's sent there to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
Overview: Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-24
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Three Installations
Overview: Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Idlers That Work
Overview: Conveyor belt idlers in construction and operation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Words in Progress
Overview: Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Is That All There Is?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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Martyrs of Love
Overview: 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 ideology.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-04-21
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The Pleasure Garden
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Trunk Conveyor
Overview: Follows Sutcliffe employees constructing a Super Goliath conveyor in a factory, along with coal miners operating the machinery in a colliery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Talking with Ozu
Overview: 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
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-27
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Omnibus: John Ford, Part One
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Overview: A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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Inadmissible Evidence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-23
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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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John Ford
Overview: A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite
Overview: BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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About "The White Bus"
Overview: Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Prisoner of Honor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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The Threatening Sky
Overview: 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 fighting back against US aggression.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-05
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Hetty King: Performer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-15
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Meet the Pioneers
Overview: Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Foot and Mouth
Overview: Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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Lucky Man
Overview: A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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