• ISBN13: 9781850436720
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publisher Imprint: I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: August 17, 2005
• Pages: 128
• Original Price: GBP 22.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 182 grams

About the Book Lindsay Anderson's provocative, savage and wickedly funny 1968 masterpiece, If... , deals fundamentally--and controversially--with England and quintessential ""Englishness."" If... was the first film ever with a British setting and cast to win the Palme d'Or for Best Film at Cannes. The fruit of Anderson's first-hand studies of the Czech, Polish and Indian New Waves led by Milos Forman, Andrzej Wajda and, most famously, Satyajit Ray, it prophesied--and then mirrored--an international outbreak of youthful rebellion. An authority on Lindsay Anderson and his films, Sutton here draws on massive quantities of original material: Anderson's private archive, which illuminates the film's autobiographical elements; the original script Crusaders ; the sequel on which he was working at the time of his death; interviews with key members of cast and crew including lead Malcolm McDowell, all are here explored to unravel the mysteries of a film which continues to delight, enrage and inspire.