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  1. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › david-lean-aDavid Lean, a filmmaker of epic scale | Interviews | Roger Ebert

    Apr 21, 1991 · Perfectionism was not simply a quality in the work of David Lean, who died on Tuesday in England at the age of 83. It was a fetish. He was a man in no hurry to make a movie. He would wait years, if necessary, before be began a project, and he was most content in the stages before and after the actual shooting.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › David_LeanDavid Lean - Wikipedia

    1. Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A ...

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  4. nofilmschool.com › what-makes-david-lean-suchWhat Makes David Lean Such a Great Director? - No Film School

    Jun 30, 2023 · The Emergence of David Lean as a Master Filmmaker. Lean was making stunning movies, but he didn't get enough credit until the release of The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957. This film, along with Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, cemented Lean's reputation as a master of epic cinema. These grand-scale productions were characterized by ...

  5. www.tasteofcinema.com › 2017 › all-17-david-leanAll 17 David Lean Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

    • Madeleine (1950) Made primarily as a wedding present to his then wife and lead actress of “Madeline’s” stage version who then reprised her role in the film, Ann Todd, “Madeleine” is famously Lean’s least favorite film of his own, and is hardly surprising to see why he must hold that opinion: the suspense is unnecessarily vamped up, the courtroom drama doesn’t go outside the realms of solid, mildly turgid filmmaking and the results are middling at best to contemporary eyes.
    • This Happy Breed (1944) Another adaptation of a Noël Coward play, “This Happy Breed” centers on the trials of a British family set in the period between the two World Wars.
    • Blithe Spirit (1945) Lean’s first few films were adapted from Noël Coward’s plays that on stage were highly successful productions and gave Lean a tested platform to establish his career on.
    • The Passionate Friends (1949) After finishing his stellar adaptations of two great Charles Dickens novels, Lean turned to an H.G.

  6. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000180David Lean - IMDb

    David Lean. Director: Lawrence of Arabia. An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding a job ...

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  7. collider.com › best-david-lean-movies-ranked10 Best David Lean Movies, Ranked - Collider

    Sep 17, 2023 · But even still, it captures the essence of its source material and stands as a compelling film version, being yet another great entry in David Lean's filmography. 4 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965)

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  9. www.goldderby.com › gallery › david-lean-movies-allDavid Lean movies: All 16 films ranked worst to best

    Mar 3, 2020 · David Lean would’ve celebrated his 112th birthday on March 25, 2020. The Oscar-winning director became famous for a series of visual striking, technically ambitious epics, but how many of tho…