Mainly about Lindsay Anderson

the long version

"Lindsay Anderson was the most original British filmmaker and theatrical director of his generation." "Anderson was, as well, an outspoken and sometimes ferocious critic of British films - and of Britain itself. He was the author of a book on John Ford. And he was one of Gavin Lambert's closest friends for more than fifty years." "Lambert's book begins with his and Anderson's days as movie-struck schoolboys, becoming fast friends, growing up in the shadow of World War II. He shows us their postwar creation of and collaboration on the influential magazine Sequence - a magazine that was produced on love and a shoestring, and which shook up the British film world with its admiration for both Hollywood noir and MGM musicals (at the time unfashionable genres) and its celebration of such directors as Ford, Bunuel, Cocteau, Vigo, and Sturges." "He describes how both men rebelled in opposite directions - Anderson remaining in England, Lambert leaving in 1958 for Los Angeles - and traces their unorthodox paths through the film industry."--Jacket.