No Film Can Be Too Personal

You better believe it! Lindsay Anderson fights for his vision of an incisive, poetic cinema that speaks to and for us, without fear or favour, in two brilliant television films.

  • Total running time 130min

The ideas behind Free Cinema sustained Lindsay Anderson’s career and are powerfully unpacked in his highly personal essay film Free Cinema, while in Is That All There Is?, the tetchy director invites us into his own day-to-day personal life, in what might be one of the weirdest, most wonderful films of his career. A long extract from Alan Parker’s 1986 film provides powerful, polemical counterpoint.

Free Cinema

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • Thames/Fremantle 1986. 53min

  • Digital

 

Is That All There Is?

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • Yaffle Films/BBC Scotland 1994. 52min

  • Digital

 

A Turnip Head’s Guide to British Cinema

  • Director

    Alan Parker

  • Thames/Fremantle 1986. 25min (excerpt)

  • Digital

Joint ticket available with Lindsay Anderson: Meet the Pioneer on Thursday 2 May £16, concessions £13 (Members pay £2 less).