On Lindsay Anderson's "If...."

Difficult Origins
Gavin Lambert in "Mainly..."
 * 164-165

Graham
 * 94-95

Hedling
 * 80-81

Lindsay Anderson
"While we were filming, the photographs in the newspapers suddenly began to look like stills from If..." - L.A.
 * Sussex
 * Graham 94

"I'm glad I had the privilege of a public school education. I liked my school. I wasn't radically critical..." -L.A.
 * Sussex
 * Graham 96

"The extent to which school is a microcosm, particularly in England, where the educational system is such an exact image of the social system."
 * Sussex
 * Graham
 * Hedling 90

"The film suggests the link between sex and freedom..."
 * Sussex
 * Graham 114

"Beaten for what they are" - L.A.
 * Graham 114-115
 * Sussex book 84

"If this story can be said to be about anything, it is about freedom" - L.A.
 * Graham 120

"People persistently misunderstand the term anarchistic..."
 * Sussex
 * Graham 119
 * Sussex 89

"In order to act, in order to free himself from the evil and corruption about him, he is turned into a monster himself..." (David Sherwin)
 * Graham 120

From the Film
"When do we live, that's what I want to know"
 * Graham
 * Sussex Book 77
 * Lambert "Anarchy in the UK"
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 166

"Britain today is a powerhouse..."
 * Graham

Stephans "Fight the good fight"
 * Graham
 * Sussex Book 79

"Violence and revolution are the only pure acts"
 * Sussex 81
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 166
 * Hedling 84

Sanctus
 * Graham 110

Cafe Scene & Question of it's "reality"
 * Graham 114
 * Sussex Book 83-84

Yell of Hate
 * Graham 117
 * Sussex Book 85

"The thing I hate about you Rowntree"
 * Sussex Book 84-85

Headmaster's Quote "Now you boys are... too intelligent to be rebels. That's too easy"
 * Graham 117
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 167

Fetus
 * Graham 118 (connected to Jute)
 * Sussex Book 86-87
 * Hedling 88

Headmaster takes Chaplain out of drawer
 * Vincent Canby "
 * Sussex Book 85-86
 * Hedling 81, 101-102

"Listen to Reason Boys and trust me"
 * Graham 119

On The Masked Mick
Ivor Novello in Hitchcock's "The Lodger
 * Sussex Book 77
 * Echoed in Hedling 97

"Dressed like a revolutionary from Dostoevsky's Possessed."
 * Lambert "Anarchy in the UK"

Discussed References
Hitchcock's The Lodger
 * Sussex Book 77

Vigo Zero de Conduite -> "Anderson and Sherwin had been energised by seeing Jean Vigo's Zéro de Conduite again, "not for its anarchistic spirit - we had plenty of our own", Anderson said later, but for its "poetic method" and the way it moved between reality and fantasy without appearing to cross a frontier."
 * Gavin Lambert "Anarchy in the UK"
 * Also menitioned in Hedling 95

Godard -> "La Chinoise" & "Band of Outsiders"
 * Vincent Canby

On being associated w/ Godard-> "I rather resent it when I'm told I was influenced by Godard because I used chapter headings. Fashionable Rubbish. One might more legitimately call it Brechtian, or call it the influence of D.W. Griffiths for Christ's sake."
 * Hedling 99

Bonnie & Clyde
 * Hedling 86

The Wild One
 * Hedling 86

Blow-Up
 * Hedling

On Anderson's Youth
"more ageless than young"
 * Vincent Canby (1969 NYT)

"an astonishingly youthful film"
 * Lambert "Anarchy in the UK"

"If... is ultimately a romantic film, with Anderson up on the roof with the rebels;"
 * Gavin Lambert "Anarchy in the UK"

"Youth is a matter of spirit, attitude, and feeling." - L.A.
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 173

Connection to Student Uprisings
I can't quarrel with the aim of Anderson... only with the apparent attempt to equate this sort of lethal protest with what's been happening on real-life campuses around the world."
 * Vincent Canby

"The Movie seemed to pose all kinds of threats to film executives at the time and triggered outrage and concern in misinformed critics who believed that Anderson was cashing in on the 'youth revolut'"
 * Graham 94

"As Lindsay and Sherwin finished the script of If..., Students for a Democratic Society staged a massive demostration in Chicago... But Lindsay was determined to avoid any exploitation of the current events, which is why the Cheltonians don't wear literally contemporary costumes or use the contemporary student slang, or why the "revolutionary" photographs on the walls of Mick's study are generalized (no Che Guevera or Bobby Seale or Chicago Seven)..."
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 172

Color vs. Black & White
Consistency in Chapel Exposures
 * Lambert "Mainly..." 1968
 * Hedling 99-100

Allision Graham "If...."
Centers around a quote from John Osborne "the protocol of ancient fatuity"

Eric Hedling
Interestingly stresses the impact of the film upon the life of Anderson.

The fascinating case of If...2 -> discussing this potential sequel radically changes the way one assess the value of If...