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Never Apologize August 15 - 21, 2008 Premiere Engagement with Malcolm McDowell & Mike Kaplan onstage! “THOROUGHLY ENGAGING! Mr. McDowell breaks out an array of celebrity impressions... But the documentary’s strongest moments are also its most touching, like Mr. Anderson’s poignant encounter with his idol John Ford and his powerful crush on Richard Harris, the star of his first feature, This Sporting Life.” - Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times *** [THREE STARS] “ENTERTAINING AND TOUCHING! McDowell offers loving stories about his mentor.” - V.A. Musetto, New York Post “Mike Kaplan’s Lindsay Anderson bio-drama Never Apologize sets the gold standard for such unique memorial cinema.”—Armond White, New York Press “McDowell's evocation of Anderson’s prickly personality is compelling and his description of Anderson’s meeting with a dying John Ford moving.” - Steve Erickson, Moving Image Source “Art is sometimes a happy accident” ~ Lindsay Anderson Malcolm McDowell’s celebration of Lindsay Anderson remembers his friendship with the groundbreaking director and their encounters with colleagues Alan Bates, Bette Davis, John Ford, John Gielgud, Lillian Gish, Laurence Olivier, Richard Harris and more. McDowell and director/producer Mike Kaplan will introduce and answer questions at numerous screenings. [Read more...] Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson NY Premiere Mike Kaplan, UK, 2007; 111m See the film's official site, with supplementary information and video of Malcolm McDowell. Continue your personal visit with Lindsay Anderson with our showcase of the director’s varied contributions to film — from six movies he directed to two works he championed in print, by the American filmmaker he most admired: John Ford. With our Series Pass you can see four of the titles in the Lindsay Anderson: Revolutionary Romantic series plus a screening of Never Apologize. The pass is $40 public/$30 Film Society member & is available only at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only transactions). Listen to A Conversation with Malcolm McDowell by Lauren Wissot in The House Next Door. Read "An Actor’s Playful Tribute to a Dissident Director," Jennette Catsoulis's review of Never Apologize in The New York Times. Read "O Lucky Us!: Malcolm McDowell on Lindsay Anderson," an interview with McDowell from The Village Voice. Read V.A. Musetto's review of Never Apologize in the New York Post Read Lincoln Center Celebrates Lindsay Anderson in The New York Sun. Read "Anarchy in the U.K.," a review of Lindsay Anderson's career, at the Museum of the Moving Image Source. More on Lindsay Anderson, Malcom McDowell, Mike Kaplan, and Never Apologize Born in Bangalore, India, educated at Cheltenham College and Wadham College of Oxford University, and a member of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps during World War II, Lindsay Anderson began his film career in the late ’40s as editor of the highly influential film magazine, Sequence. He became a leading figure (along with his friends, filmmakers Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson) in England’s Free Cinema movement, which challenged audiences and critics to respond personally to film, while his essays in some of England’s most prestigious publications established him as an shrewd and biting commentator. Anderson directed a series of documentary films in the late ’40s and throughout the ’50s which led him to both international recognition—including an Academy Award for documentary short subject for Thursday’s Children (1954)—and the opportunity to direct a fictional narrative feature. Based on a novel by David Storey, This Sporting Life (1963) became one of the most significant entrants in England’s groundbreaking Kitchen Sink Realism movement. Stars Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their performances, while the film launched Anderson and Storey’s frequent collaborations for both stage and screen, including the theatrical and film productions of In Celebration, the latter starring Alan Bates and Brian Cox. McDowell was born in Leeds, England and was a member of several British repertory companies before he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in If…. He has since created a rogue’s gallery of iconic film characters, including Mick Travis and the gleefully amoral Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1973). His film and television credits include The Collection (1976), Caligula (1979), Time After Time (1979), Star Trek: Generations (1994), Gangster No. 1 (2000), Robert Altman’s The Company (2003), I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) and the ongoing shows Entourage and Heroes. Mike Kaplan was marketing executive for A Clockwork Orange, where he met McDowell, and producer of Anderson’s The Whales of August. His film credits include work in production, marketing and distribution alongside such filmmakers as Robert Altman (A Wedding, Kansas City, Vincent & Theo), Hal Ashby (Lookin’ to Get Out, Let’s Spend the Night Together), Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Croupier, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead) and Barbet Schroeder (Maitresse). Never Apologize began as a theatrical evening starring McDowell and directed by Kaplan. It premiered at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Anderson’s death and was subsequently performed at the National Theatre in London and for the Ojai Film Festival in Ojai, Calif., where the filming took place.The documentary was presented at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.