This Sporting Life-advance notice

This Sporting Life - Special film showing sponsored by the Rugby League
Foundation

Hyde Park cinema - Leeds - September 4th

This Sporting Life (1963) is based on the award winning novel by David
Storey, a former professional Leeds rugby league player who also wrote the
film script. The film

tells the tale of a fictional Wakefield miner who becomes a rugby league
player. Directed by Lindsay Anderson it starred Rachel Roberts and Richard
Harris, whose acclaimed performance won him a Best Actor Award at the 1963
Cannes Film Festival. The film will be introduced by rugby league historian
Tony Collins and sports writer and journalist Anthony Clavane, with an
optional discussion at the end of the showing. The introduction will
commence at 7.45 followed by the film at 8.00. Tickets £4 and advanced
bookings are available on-line [www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk] or by
telephone from Leeds (0113 275 2045) [A 50p additional charge per ticket
applies for advance on-line or telephone bookings].

This special showing is sponsored by the Rugby League Foundation and
presented by Fields of Vision, a conference on the arts in sport [ www.
artsinsport.wordpress.com],

which is convened by Leeds Rugby Arts (Leeds Rugby Foundation) in
association with the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure,
Leeds Metropolitan University. The showing

is also supported by Headingley LitFest. For further information on the
conference contact S.Armitage@leedsmet.ac.uk.

“Probably Lindsay Anderson's best film - certainly Richard Harris's. He
gives a performance to equal Brando's in A Streetcar Named Desire, playing
Frank Machin, the

ferociously driven young man in early 60s England who wants to make it in
professional rugby league... This Sporting Life shrewdly anticipates modern
Britain: a dour, yet

thrilling and exhilarating film”. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian