British film, theatre and television director Gordon Anderson was born in Bangalore in April 1923, and his father was an English officer while serving in India. Gordon received a purely English education, first graduating from Cheltenham College, and then from Oxford University.
In the cinema, he went "from the opposite", starting his career in the field of film criticism. In 1947-1952, his articles appeared in the pages of the journal Sequence, of which he was one of the co-founders. His work
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British film, theatre and television director Gordon Anderson was born in Bangalore in April 1923, and his father was an English officer while serving in India. Gordon received a purely English education, first graduating from Cheltenham College, and then from Oxford University.
In the cinema, he went "from the opposite", starting his career in the field of film criticism. In 1947-1952, his articles appeared in the pages of the journal Sequence, of which he was one of the co-founders. His work was published under the auspices of the British Film Institute in the magazine "Sight and Sound" and in the newspaper "New Statesman".
Gordon Anderson was the creator of a kind of philosophy of British cinema, later called Free Cinema. As a practical application of his theory, Gordon
Karel Reishi and
"Children Thursday" He subsequently won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary. By the way, this was not the only Anderson award, at various times he was awarded the awards "BAFTA", "Golden Palm", "DAFF", and the festival "Fantasporto", which allowed to talk about the viability of his theory.
Anderson was a recognized master of the "short meter", but he managed to shoot several feature films. The first of them was Such a Sporting Life, filmed in 1963 and received a ticket to the Cannes Festival. But the most famous is his trilogy dedicated to Mick Travis.
Anderson also worked on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre, and also as a director.
Anderson died in August 1994 in Angoulem. Subsequently, as part of the project “Cinema Age”, director Stephen Frears shot
film "The History of English Cinema by Stephen Frears" It also mentioned Anderson. /