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CAREER Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for ''Sequence'' magazine (1947-52), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert , and later for the British Film Institute 's '' Sight And Sound '' and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman . In one of his early and most well-known polemical pieces, "Stand Up, Stand Up", he outlined his theories of what British cinema should become. Anderson developed an acquaintance with John Ford , which led to him writing one of the standard books on that director. As seen in his writings, another major influence was Humphrey Jennings , the great wartime documentary film maker. Following a series of screenings which he organized at the National Film Theatre of independently-produced short films by himself, Karel Reisz and others, he developed a philosphy of cinema which found expression in what became known as the Free Cinema Movement in Britain by the late-1950s. This was the belief that the cinema must break away from its class-bound attitudes and that the Working Class es deserved to be seen on Britain's screens. Along with Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson , and others he secured funding from a variety of sources (including Ford Of Britain ) and they each made a series of socially challenging short documentaries on a variety of subjects. These films, made in the tradition of British documentaries in the 1930s by such men as John Grierson , foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema which emerged in the 1960's with Anderson's own film '' This Sporting Life '', Reisz's '' Saturday Night And Sunday Morning '', and Richardson's '' The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner ''. One of Anderson's early short films, ''Thursday's Child'', won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954 . Anderson is best remembered internationally for his "Mick Travis" trilogy of feature films, all of which star '', '' O Lucky Man! '' and '' Britannia Hospital ''. Also an important British theatre director, he was long associated with London's Royal Court Theatre , directing premier productions of plays by David Storey , among others. FILMOGRAPHY
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