Look Back in Anger may refer to:
- Look Back in Anger, a 1956 play by John Osborne
- "Look Back in Anger" (song), a 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno
- Look Back in Anger (film), a 1958 film directed by Tony Richardson
- Look Back in Anger (1980 film), a 1980 film directed by Lindsay Anderson
- Look Back in Anger (1989 film), a 1980 film directed by Judi Dench
- Look Back in Anger (TV series), a 2000 South Korean KBS television drama
- Look Back in Anger (band), an English gothic rock group
See also [link]
- Looking Back in Anger, a 1989 Chinese TV series.
- "Don't Look Back in Anger", a 1995 song by the British rock band Oasis
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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger (1956) is a play by John Osborne. It concerns a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The play was a success on the London stage, and spawned the term "angry young men" to describe Osborne and those of his generation who employed the harshness of realism in the theatre in contrast to the more escapist theatre that characterized the previous generation.
Background
Written in 17 days in a deck chair on Morecambe Pier,Look Back in Anger was a strongly autobiographical piece based on Osborne's unhappy marriage to actress Pamela Lane and their life in cramped accommodation in Derby. While Osborne aspired towards a career in theatre, Lane was more practical and materialistic, not taking Osborne's ambitions seriously while cuckolding him with a local dentist. It also draws from Osborne's earlier life; for example, the wrenching speech of witnessing a loved one's death was a replay of the death of his father, Thomas.
Look Back in Anger (1980 film)
Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.
Plot
Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Cast
Background/Production
Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with Malcolm McDowell on if.... and O Lucky Man!, translated Ted Craig's Roundabout Theatre Company production (in which McDowell was starring) to the screen, and taped results in three days.
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Look Back in Anger (song)
"Look Back in Anger" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album Lodger (1979). It concerns "a tatty 'Angel of Death'", and features a guitar solo by Carlos Alomar.
RCA Records was unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of "Boys Keep Swinging", the lead-off single from Lodger in most territories, and "Look Back in Anger" was issued instead. The B-side was another track from Lodger called "Repetition", a story of domestic violence. The single failed to chart.
"Look Back in Anger" has a mixed reputation among Bowie commentators. NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described it as "probably the low point" of the album, while Nicholas Pegg considers it "one of Lodger's dramatic highlights".
Beyond the shared title, the song has nothing to do with the John Osborne play Look Back in Anger.
Bowie performed the song on his 1983 "Serious Moonlight" Tour (it is the opening number on the Serious Moonlight film) and reworked it in the mid-90s as a heavy rock song for the "Outside" and "Earthling" tours.
