Mainly About Lindsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571177752 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571177751 |
| Title | Mainly About Lindsay Anderson |
| Author | Gavin Lambert |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2000-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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