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O Lucky Man!
Why this pick
Anderson again follows Malcolm McDowell with the same insolent, anti-establishment energy, expanding if....’s institutional rage into a wild, episodic satire of modern Britain.
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The Conformist
Why this pick
Its exquisitely stylised images and psychologically tense portrait of submission to authoritarian power echo if....’s fascination with repression, hierarchy and rebellion.
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The War Game
Why this pick
Watkins’s confrontational faux-documentary uses chilly realism and escalating dread to attack complacent authority, matching the radical political bite beneath if....’s schoolbound revolt.
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The Ruling Class
Why this pick
A viciously comic assault on British class rituals and inherited power, delivered with the same willingness as if.... to turn establishment respectability into grotesque satire.
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The 400 Blows
Why this pick
Its young protagonist’s rebellion against punitive schools and indifferent adults offers a more intimate, melancholy counterpart to Mick Travis’s defiance.
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01 / THE STORY
Which side will you be on?
Set in a boarding school, Mick Travis, an anarchic classmate, outwits the students and masters endlessly.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Malcolm McDowell
Mick
David Wood
Johnny
Richard Warwick
Wallace
Christine Noonan
The Girl
Robert Swann
Rowntree
Hugh Thomas
Denson
Peter Sproule
Barnes
Peter Jeffrey
Headmaster