The Old Crowd

Lindsay Anderson and Alan Bennett’s absurdist, Buñuel-esque television play about a faltering London dinner party was controversial in its day, and has been unjustly overlooked.

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • With

    John Moffatt, Isabel Dean, Philip Stone

  • LWT/ITV 1979. 61min

  • Digital

The furniture hasn’t arrived yet, the cracks in the ceiling keep getting bigger, and the hired staff are positively sulky. But no matter, the upper-middle class guests at George and Betty’s housewarming will have a splendid time. Alan Bennett and Anderson pool their considerable talents in this controversial and searingly class-critical play – Buñuel by way of bourgeois London. Screening with documentary footage of Anderson directing Helen Mirren and a wonderfully lyrical 1967 short Anderson made in Communist Poland.

Screening with:

Arts Bazaar

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • Thames/Fremantle 1975. 6min (extract)

  • Digital

 

The Singing Lesson

Raz Dwa Trzy

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • UK-Poland 1967. 20min

  • 35mm

  • English subtitles

Total running time 87min

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