If .... Lindsay Anderson's jolting ode to revolution in a British public school made a star of Malcolm MacDowell and thoroughly confused filmgoers expecting it to make literal sense. Criterion's ample extras answer some questions but leave much of the story a mystery; even more interesting is the film's slow transformation from realistim to semi-abstraction, and the story of how it was almost permanently shelved.   06/19/07 Posted by DVD Savant at June 18, 2007 04:13 PM