Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Mick Travis is now a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced and sinister scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar (returning from O Lucky Man!) will be demonstrated Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Mick Travis progresses from coffee salesman to personal assistant to a corporate mastermind in this sprawling surreal allegory. Travis learns the amoral lesson, reinforced by songs from a commentator/singer, Alan Price, that he must abandon his principles in order to succeed, but unlike the other characters he meets he must retain a detached idealism that will allow him to distance himself from the evils of the world. Juxtaposed with Travis' experiences, 1960s Britain is seen retreating from its imperial past while retaining world influence by means of corrupt dealings with foreign dictators.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Lindsay Anderson

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Lindsay Anderson’s first order of business was satirising the initiating institution of English public school life which he resolved with a savage insurrection. The film established a unique character by freely intercutting between discordant elements: color and black & white sequences or scenes of vague fantasy and reality though never indicating how these shifts should be interpreted. The film was a harbinger of the 1960s counterculture and even said to contribute to the student uprisings in Paris in May 1968.