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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Obituary: John Schlesinger |
 | | Schlesinger's attitude to work made him impatient with fellow British directors, notably Lindsay Anderson (obituary, September 1 1994), whom he considered over-selective and unable (or, as he said, unwilling) to work regularly. |
 | | Schlesinger was born in London, into a comfortably-off Jewish family (his father was a doctor), with whom he retained strong bonds. |
 | | An extraordinary aspect of Schlesinger's personality was his boundless energy and enthusiasm for projects: when I arranged an NFT retrospective with him, he agreed to supply all his early material, off-cuts from films and his own 35mm copies, which were always provided as part of his contract. |
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