Lindsay Anderson-This Sporting Life (1963) **REUPLOAD*REPOST**

Lindsay Anderson pulls no punches in his classic screen adaptation of the hard hitting David Storey novel about violence and its effect on the quality of life. Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts are outstanding as Machin, the professional rugby player who carries the violence of the football field into every area of his life, and Mrs Hammond, the frigid and withdrawn woman with whom he lodges and conducts a joyeless affair. As well as examining their relationship in minute and painful detail, the film contains some of the most brutal and realistic footage of all-out sporting conflict ever filmed.



In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation, and this is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/plotsummary)



Set in the working class environs of Northern England (Yorkshire), this is a stark and uncompromising film. Richard Harris gives a performance of a lifetime as a rugby player who, both on and off the field of play, seems able to express himself only through violence. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



Lindsay Anderson directs wonderfully, insisting on gritty realism, and stripping everything of any hint of cinematic glamour. Unlike the French "nouvelle vague", Anderson wasn't interested in technique for its own sake: he was more concerned with actual substance. Here, he explores the depths of the characters, and their relationships with each other; and, in particular, their emotions, which are volcanic. Never have such naked passions been portrayed on screen with such power. One feels somewhat drained by the end. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



If you want two hours of enjoyment, forget about it. This is one of the most depressing films ever made. Every grim feature of post war North of England is piled on in black and white - chimneys, mean terraces, cooling towers, mucky fields, stunted ambition and rising damp. A contemporary view of the early 1960s, you're given all the warts and none of the glitter. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



This masterpiece by Lindsay Anderson should be on any film aficionado's must-see list. It is an uncompromising study of alienation, social class, maturity, and loneliness. Richard Harris gives a performance of astonishing realism: it seems unlikely he could ever surpass it. The character moves from physicalized anger to tenderness often within a moment. Harris builds to a completely believable dramatic eruption by the climax. He is matched along the way by Rachel Roberts, a great actress in an unforgettable role: a woman unwilling to let go of the past and the pain it contains. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



Yet, while "This Sporting Life" uses many of the techniques associated with social-realist cinema, it is often isolated because of the director's attention to personal rather than social material. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



Exploitation by self-important middle-class characters is one of the common elements of "This Sporting Life". In Anderson's film sport is portrayed as a false salvation for the working class. The rugby scenes are filmed with vitality and energy as though they are outside the general malaise of urban life. Nonetheless, rugby is seen as just another way in which the working classes are manipulated and abused (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)



The black and white cinematography is often beautiful as it poeticizes Frank's plight (for example, near the end of the film, he ends up wandering along moonlit railway tracks in a world of steely, silvery loneliness. Also of note, the wonderfully nightmarish music by Roberto Gerhard, an avant-garde composer who differed with the director on the scoring the film (http://imdb.com/title/tt0057578/usercomments)





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