Lindsay Anderson – MRQE

Play for Today:: Home (TVE)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

David Storey’s adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC’s Play for Today series.

Look Back in Anger (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business partner and best friend, who lives next door. Jimmy’s marital problems come to a head when his wife discovers that she’s pregnant and one of her friends, an actress, comes to stay with them. Based on the play, the story takes place in England in the 1950’s.

If….

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In an English boys’ boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

Is That All There Is?

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

The Whales of August

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

In Celebration

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

O Lucky Man!

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

The White Bus

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

This Sporting Life

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Every Day Except Christmas

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company’s “Look At Britain” series.