If...

Imagine if Buñuel started a film and Peckinpah finished it. This would probably be that.

Timcop

Given that I just watched a harrowing denouncement of militarism, patriotism, and the death penalty, it's a bit weird to find myself laughing through a violent, pitched battle at a boarding school. But here I am. While this is pretty clearly an indictment of a sort of…

Sally Jane Black

Lindsay Anderson's If.... could quite possibly be the unofficial prequel to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

Baz

dead poets society (1989) found dead in a ditch. literally dead

forelavy

Are you into Malcom McDowell or are you normal?

Robin

"War is the last possible creative act." - Mick Travis You know those films that you think you're really going to hate because the term 'new wave' has been labelled on them, but actually end up liking them a lot, despite their pretentiousness and casual weirdness? Well,…

Simon Ramshaw

If is a bold statement on the brutality of British boarding schools and the social hierarchy that plagued this institution and offers a critical look into Authoritarianism and shifts from colour to black and white in a surreal fashion giving the film a very unpredictable…

Sam

An anti-establishment yell, If... is a counterculture movie that refuses to submit to expectations. Its depiction of British schoolboy fascism is raw and unpleasant. The British establishment is among the most rotten in the world, birthed in the pus of public schools. If...…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

Lindsay Anderson, director of This Sporting Life and one of the essential filmmakers of the British New Wave, turns his attention to the English public school system for his film if..., and falls back on his first-hand experience to craft a movie which strides a prudent…

Paul Elliott