If.... (DVD) Reviews

If.... (DVD): 'The world will end very soon.' (1095 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 16.04.08 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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A review of the Paramount DVD. If.... is a classic British film from 1968, directed by Lindsay Anderson (not a woman, in spite of his girly name). It's about life in an absurdly constrictive public school, and three sixth formers who try to rebel against the system. It's very 1960s, but while it sometimes seems a bit gauche, ...

A review: If...  (281 words)
by - written on 26.02.02
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With If... Lindsay Anderson reached out to the peak of achievement in the British cinema and made a film which must count as one of the most powerful ever made by an English director. A study of a rebel in an English public school, it showed an individual making a protest against authority, a cry which turns eventually into anarchy and armed ...

If.... (DVD): If... The Movie (163 words)
by KSamra - written on 11.07.00 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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If?is one of those films which puts a hook into everyone who sees for any number of reasons. It tells the story of a young adolescent student played by Malcolm Macdowell of Clockwork Orange fame who rebels against the disciplinarian boarding school which he attends in what is a microcosm of the class war which was being waged in the 1960?s in ...

Some people might like it (136 words)
by londongirl - written on 29.06.00 (Useful, 14 readings)
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Personally i didn't. Whether that was due to the fact that i had to write an essay on it and thus go through it with a fine toothcomb and pull it apart i don't know, somehow i doubt it. It may have been good in its day, but unless you particularly like 60's British films i wouldn't go out of your way to see it. It is ...