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- <text id=94TT1219>
- <title>
- Sep. 12, 1994: Died:Lindsay Anderson
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Sep. 12, 1994 Revenge of the Killer Microbes
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 37
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- <p> DIED. LINDSAY ANDERSON, 71, pioneering film director who brought
- new life to British cinema in the '50s and '60s; in the Dordogne,
- France. While a student at Oxford University, Anderson co-founded
- and edited the journal Sequence, which attacked what it considered
- to be the bourgeois complacency of British films of the '40s.
- Anderson started his own filmmaking career by directing documentaries,
- winning an Oscar in 1954 for Thursday's Children, an intimate
- study of deaf youngsters. His first feature film was This Sporting
- Life (1963), which evoked the grittiness of lower-class British
- life with its tale of an inarticulate, thwarted rugby player
- (memorably played by Richard Harris). If...(1968), a satire
- of a public school as a microcosm of British society, climaxed
- with student rebels opening fire with submachine guns on parents
- and teachers. Twenty years later, with more appropriate restraint,
- Anderson directed The Whales of August (1987), about two elderly
- sisters (played by Bette Davis and Lillian Gish in their final
- film performances) confronting mortality at their summer home
- in Maine.
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- </body>
- </article>
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