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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson was one of the most influential of all post-World War II British film directors. In 1954 he won an Academy Award for his documentary short, Thursday’s Children. He released his debut feature film, the grim drama This Sporting Life, in 1963. If… , a film set in an English public school, attacking patriotism and establishment snobbery, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
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Free Cinema; Anderson, Lindsay; New Wave (cinema); British Cinema
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