Never Apologise The Collected Writings

by Anderson, Lindsay; Ryan, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780859653176
• ISBN10: 085965317X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-28
• Publisher: Plexus Publishing

Summary

"These pieces, collected in book form for the first time, represent some of the most honest and outspoken criticism on the arts of stage and screen, and their relevance to modern life. Anderson on England (he was a Scot), Anderson on Ford, Chaplin and Welles, on Jennings and Carol Reed, Anderson on working with Storey, Gielgud and Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Bette Davis and Lillian Gish and, most illuminatingly of all, Anderson on Anderson."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	ix
Introduction: A Revolutionary Soldier	1	(32)
Paul Ryan
Anderson on Anderson
My Country Right or Wrong?	33	(2)
A Child of Empire	35	(6)
Sequence	41	(9)
Starting in Films	50	(6)
The Value of an Oscar	56	(3)
Finding a Style	59	(2)
Commercials and Television	61	(2)
Bernard Miles	63	(3)
Notes from Sherwood	66	(4)
Every Day Except Christmas	70	(3)
Free Cinema	73	(5)
The Court Style	78	(5)
Glory Days	83	(7)
Sport, Life and Art	90	(9)
Roberto Gerhard and the Music for This Sporting Life	99	(3)
The Singing Lesson	102	(3)
The White Bus	105	(3)
How If. . . . Came About	108	(4)
School to Screen	112	(4)
If. . . . The Colour of Monochrome	116	(4)
Notes For A Preface	120	(4)
In Celebration	124	(2)
O Lucky Man!	126	(3)
Stripping the Veils Away	129	(8)
The Old Crowd	137	(11)
Britannia Hospital	148	(10)
Wham! in China	158	(4)
The Whales of August	162	(3)
Lillian and Bette: Bette and Lillian	165	(4)
Bette Davis	169	(1)
Glory! Glory!	170	(2)
35 Days in Toronto	172	(8)
The Long Night of the Russian Canape	180	(4)
Is That All There Is?	184	(5)
On Critics and Criticism
Angles of Approach	189	(5)
Creative Elements	194	(6)
The Director's Cinema?	200	(10)
The Film Artist -- Freedom and Responsibility!	210	(5)
The Cinema Is . . .	215	(3)
Stand Up! Stand Up!	218	(15)
Get Out and Push!	233	(19)
French Critical Writing	252	(3)
Positif and Cahiers du Cinema	255	(2)
Catholicism and the Cinema	257	(3)
David Robinson	260	(3)
Dilys Powell and C. A. Lejeune	263	(2)
Taking Them All In: Pauline Kael	265	(3)
Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties	268	(3)
Critical Betrayal	271	(10)
The Theatre
Vital Theatre	281	(5)
Replying to Critics	286	(3)
Pre-Renaissance: Is the Left Going in the Right Direction?	289	(8)
No Nonsense About Shakespeare	297	(2)
The Playboy in Edinburgh	299	(2)
A French Hamlet	301	(2)
At the Court of King George	303	(5)
Jocelyn Herbert	308	(3)
Tony Richardson	311	(4)
John Dexter	315	(4)
John Osborne	319	(3)
Jill Bennett	322	(1)
Rachel Roberts	323	(2)
John Haynes	325	(5)
John Gielgud	330	(2)
David Storey	332	(4)
British Cinema
A Possible Solution	336	(4)
British Cinema: The Descending Spiral	340	(7)
The Studio That Begs to Differ	347	(6)
Going It Alone: The British Documentarists	353	(5)
Only Connect: Some Aspects of the Work of Humphrey Jennings	358	(7)
Postscript to `Only Connect'	365	(2)
Lucky Jim	367	(2)
The Films of Carol Reed	369	(5)
A Prophet without Honour	374	(3)
A Matter of Life and Death: Michael Powell	377	(3)
Recollections of a Full Life: Bryan Forbes	380	(2)
The Short Flight of a Golden Bird	382	(3)
Bill Douglas	385	(1)
The Lost Past of British Cinema	386	(1)
The Lights That Failed	387	(3)
British Cinema: The Historical Imperative	390	(10)
American Cinema
Inventing Hollywood	400	(4)
Charlie Chaplin	404	(4)
Mary Pickford	408	(2)
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock	410	(11)
Return of the Prodigal: Von Stroheim	421	(3)
Garbo and Shearer	424	(4)
Shirley Temple	428	(3)
Mary Astor	431	(5)
Katharine Hepburn	436	(3)
George Cukor	439	(2)
David O. Selznick	441	(3)
Meeting in Dublin with John Ford: The Quiet Man	444	(8)
They Were Expendable and John Ford	452	(13)
Last Meeting: Palm Desert	465	(4)
The Hustons	469	(3)
Orson Welles	472	(5)
Joseph Losey	477	(2)
Nicholas Ray	479	(2)
Don Siegel	481	(2)
Martin Scorsese	483	(2)
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Kevin Brownlow	485	(2)
The Birth of a Nation	487	(2)
Louisiana Story	489	(2)
Guys and Dolls, A Hill in Korea and Smiles of a Summer Night	491	(2)
The Big Heat	493	(1)
Them!	494	(1)
Giant	495	(2)
The Girl Can't Help It	497	(1)
Minnelli, Kelly and An American in Paris	498	(5)
Science Fiction Movies	503	(2)
The Last Sequence of On the Waterfront	505	(7)
Hooray for Hollywood	512	(5)
Hype vs. Old Lies	517	(5)
An International View
Sergei Eisenstein	522	(4)
Theoretical Writings of Eisenstein	526	(3)
Kozintsev's Lear	529	(1)
L'Atalante, the Forgotten Masterpiece	530	(3)
Leni Riefenstahl	533	(2)
Encounter with Prevert	535	(2)
Bergman's Reticent Confessional	537	(2)
Satyajit Ray, Commitment to Humanity	539	(3)
Roman Polanski	542	(4)
Paisa	546	(2)
Sciuscia	548	(1)
Casque d'Or	549	(5)
Madame de. . .	554	(2)
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	556	(2)
La Terra Trema and Baby Doll	558	(2)
A Generation and Bridge on the River Kwai	560	(2)
Three to Cheer For	562	(8)
Cannes 1955	570	(5)
Cannes for the Tenth Time	575	(3)
Two Inches off the Ground	578	(5)
Commitment in a Cold Climate	583	(7)
Appendix: The Theatre We Deserve	590	(13)
Acknowledgements	603	(2)
Index	605