The director who dared to tell uncomfortable truths: Lindsay Anderson at 100
With films such as O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, the British auteur portrayed his country as a bleak dystopia in decline – what would he make of today’s Britain?
February 2020
Michael Medwin obituary
Versatile actor known for his TV role in The Army Game and as the producer of British film classics including If...
April 2019
Other lives
John Howlett obituary
Other lives: Novelist, scriptwriter and biographer
June 2018
Steve Bell’s If ... Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un compare clubs
Steve Bell’s If ...
June 2016
Mary MacLeod obituary
Actor best known for appearances in the Lindsay Anderson films If …. and O Lucky Man!
July 2014
Role model
Why I'd like to be … Malcolm McDowell in If …
You don't need to be an Old Etonian to identify with anti-hero schoolboy Mick Travis when he goes to war with the establishment, writes John Keenan
January 2012
Film blog
Does David Cameron's taste in films match his values? If … only
Andrew Pulver: Our Smiths-loving PM has delivered another headscratcher in claiming to like Lindsay Anderson's anti-establishment standard
September 2008
Sentenced to a lifetime of stress
In films like If..., Lindsay Anderson seemed to be at perpetual war with British society. But, while making a new documentary, John Harris discovered the deep roots of the director's acerbic, scintillating vision
February 2002
Anarchy in the UK
Lindsay Anderson's If... encapsulated the radical spirit of 1968. But it was only the start of a trilogy that anatomised a faltering nation
