Mainly About Lindsay Anderson

Mainly About Lindsay Anderson

by Gavin Lambert (Author)

Synopsis

This is an elegant, intimate and witty biography of one of the foremost figures of post-war British cinema and theatre. Lindsay Anderson's About John Ford combined a critical biography with a memoir of his guarded friendship with the great Western director. Now Gavin Lambert, a close friend of Anderson's since schooldays, has essayed a similar tribute to Anderson himself. Lambert celebrates Anderson's inimitable films (If . . ., O Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital), and his remarkable theatrical collaboration with David Storey (The Changing Room, Home, In Celebration). Lambert has enjoyed access to Anderson's private journals, which span fifty years of his life and shed important light on his personality; and he has interviewed numerous colleagues and friends including Alan Bates, Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears, Helen Mirren and Karel Reisz.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 08 May 2000

ISBN 10: 0571177751
ISBN 13: 9780571177752
Book Overview: Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, by Gavin Lambert, is an elegant, intimate and witty biography of one of the foremost figures of post-war British cinema and theatre.

Author Bio
Gavin Lambert was born and educated in England. He co-edited the film magazine Sequence with Lindsay Anderson, was the editor of Sight and Sound and wrote film criticism for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. He is the author of three previous biographies - On Cukor, Norma Shearer, Nazimova - the memoir Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, and seven novels, among them The Slide Area and The Goodbye People. His screenplays include The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, the Oscar-nominated Sons and Lovers and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. He lives in Los Angeles.