Lindsay Anderson: Revolutionary Romantic.

At Moving Image Source, Steve Erickson addresses the question, "If Anderson's best work ranks among the highlights of British cinema, why has he fallen so far into obscurity?"

Updated through 8/17.

"Armed with only anecdotes, diaries and an unexpected gift for mimicry, Malcolm McDowell is thoroughly engaging in Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson," writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times.

Steve Dollar talks with McDowell for the New York Sun.

Earlier: "Anderson, McDowell, Kubrick."

Updates, 8/16: "There is no reason to consider O Lucky Man! a masterpiece, or morally committed, or politically astute, or trenchantly satirical, or anything that might lift it into the realm of greatness that it strains for without straining itself too terribly hard," writes Travis Mackenzie Hoover. "It's for those nights when we're fed up and pissed off and need to be comforted that much of this doesn't make sense no matter how hard we try, and that we have to honor our frustration when it all falls apart."

Also at the House Next Door, Lauren Wissot: "In Celebration, while a heartfelt study of Britain's clash of class systems, as explored through the pinball machinations of three now professional sons bouncing against their still lower-class parents, is really nothing more than a record, a scrapbook snapshot of Anderson's theater work.... It is a perfect example of the wrong medium for the right project, a recording of poignant drama for posterity rather than out of artistic necessity."

Update, 8/17: Lauren Wissot talks with McDowell for the House Next Door.

Posted by dwhudson at August 15, 2008 9:33 AM