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The White Bus
Originally intended as part of an aborted trilogy of Shelagh Delaney adaptations, Lindsay Anderson’s inventive satire takes a magical mystery tour through mid-60s England.
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Director
Lindsay Anderson
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With
Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Julie Perry
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UK 1967. 46min
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35mm
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Certificate
12A
Adapting Shelagh Delaney’s story about a young woman who returns from London to her northern hometown, Anderson anticipates his subsequent trilogy with this sharply pointed satire on English provincialism – one that mixes moments of realism and fantasy in disarmingly inventive style. Screening with Anderson’s Green and Pleasant Land (1955), a selection of his 1960s TV commercials and an extract of Anderson in conversation with filmmaker (and then head of BFI Production) Mamoun Hassan.
Unfortunately, the 35mm of The White Bus is missing the opening and closing credits and a few seconds from the opening shot. The short colour segments appear faded, but the majority of the film, in black and white, is crisp and sharp. The print is largely in excellent condition, and this is a great chance to see the film on film as it was originally meant to be seen.
Screening with:
Green and Pleasant Land
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Director
Lindsay Anderson
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UK 1955. 3min
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16mm
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12A
Anderson commercial test reel
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Director
Lindsay Anderson
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UK 1960. 9min
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Digital
In Conversation – Lindsay Anderson and Mamoun Hassan
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Director
Lindsay Anderson
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UK 1973. 10min (extract)
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Digital
Total running time 68min
The new NFT3 entrance is in the main foyer.
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