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Author : Constantine Santas
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810882102
In this volume, David Lean's now undervalued epics--The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India--are restored to the elevated esteem they once held.
Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813138206
Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908--1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic storytelling and panoramic visions of history, but he started out as a talented film editor and director in Great Britain. As a result, he brought an art-house mentality to blockbuster films. Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean uses screenplays and production histories to assess Lean's body of work. Author Gene D. Phillips interviews actors who worked with Lean and directors who knew him, and their comments reveal new details about the director's life and career. Phillips also explores Lean's lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends (1949), Hobson's Choice (1954), and Summertime (1955). The result is an in-depth examination of the director in cultural, historical, and cinematic contexts. Lean's approach to filmmaking was far different than that of many of his contemporaries. He chose his films carefully and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a period of more than forty years. Those films, however, have become some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. Lean is best known for his epics, but Phillips also focuses on Lean's successful adaptations of famous works of literature, including retellings of plays such as Brief Encounter (1945) and novels such as Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), and A Passage to India (1984). From expansive studies of war and strife to some of literature's greatest high comedies and domestic dramas, Lean imbued all of his films with his unique creative vision. Few directors can match Lean's ability to combine narrative sweep and psychological detail, and Phillips goes beyond Lean's epics to reveal this unifying characteristic in the director's body of work. Beyond the Epic is a vital assessment of a great director's artistic process and his place in the film industry.
Author : David Lean
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604732350
Interviews with the director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and many other epic films
Author : Alain Silver,James Ursini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106017684298
Uncovers themes and concerns that have been held throughout Lean's career.
Author : Kevin Brownlow
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466832374
The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations. There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacular color epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By. . ., brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry. One learns about the making of movies as realized by a master, but also of the highly personal costs of genius. The troubled Quaker family from which Lean came influenced his relationship with his son, his brother, and his six wives. Yet he showed in his work a deep understanding of humanity. The vastness of this scholarly and entertaining enterprise is augmented by sixteen pages of scenes from Lean's color films, thirty-two pages from his black-and-white movies, and throughout the text a vast number of photographs from his life and location work.
Author : Stephen M. Silverman
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640193536
Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Passage to India. Stephen M. Silverman spent the better part of a year meeting with Lean to secure firsthand information for this book. An intensely private man, Lean opened up to Silverman and shared with him the story of his life - from his Quaker upbringing, through his decade as Britain's star film editor, to his work as a director, earning him through his intelligent, literate films a reputation for perfection. Lean's movies, which collected an unprecedented twenty-seven Academy Awards, are noted for their stunning pictorial content as well as their strong narrative flow, and many of Lean's colleagues have shared their personal recollections with the author, who has added a new afterword to the book. The memories and anecdotes from such film notables as Alec Guinness, Katharine Hepburn, Julie Christie, Maurice Jarre, John Mills, Omar Sharif, Judy Davis, and Sarah Miles serve to further enliven this already vivid biographical and critical study. Katharine Hepburn starred in Summertime, Lean's first film to be shot entirely on location. Her Introduction discusses Sir David as both an incomparable director and a great friend. Rolling Stone: "Stephen M. Silverman has guided the famously reclusive Lean into lively, witty, and informative recollections of his life and work on such hits as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Brief Encounter, and A Passage to India, as well as Lawrence [of Arabia]. Here's that rare book on movies that can really be called indispensable." Los Angeles Times: "Perhaps most surprising to his friends, [Lean] allowed himself to be interviewed at length by critic Stephen Silverman. David Lean is interesting not least for the candor with which Lean admitted that the reviews of Ryan's Daughter devastated him and almost paralyzed him creatively." The Boston Globe: "Bright, chatty, cant-free . . . Without lapsing into critspeak, Silverman adroitly lays out the evidence for what's shaping up as an emergent reassessment of Lean's output and provides flavorful eyewitness testimony, pro and con." Chicago Tribune: "It's fitting that the most exquisitely crafted book on film should deal with one of the motion pictures' supreme craftsmen, David Lean . . . . Lean himself contributes many insights and anecdotes, and there are fascinating behind-the-camera tales of both his meticulous technique and his messy battles with producers and stars." Financial Times: "This portrait of the film director as old lion is well-researched and highly readable. We goggle at the account of Lean's Quaker upbringing and his parents' horror of the cinema. (They wanted him to become an accountant.) We follow Lean's early creative romances with Noël Coward (four films) and Charles Dickens (two). And we listen to Lean and Katharine Hepburn . . . quarreling via Silverman over who was responsible for her ill-fated jump into the Venice canal in Summertime." Variety: "As lavish as Lean's best films, Stephen M. Silverman's David Lean is an important addition to the collective library of film books."
Author : Gene Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813171555
Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908–1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic storytelling and panoramic visions of history, but he started out as a talented film editor and director in Great Britain. As a result, he brought an art-house mentality to blockbuster films. Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean uses screenplays and production histories to assess Lean’s body of work. Author Gene D. Phillips interviews actors who worked with Lean and directors who knew him, and their comments reveal new details about the director’s life and career. Phillips also explores Lean’s lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends (1949), Hobson’s Choice (1954), and Summertime (1955). The result is an in-depth examination of the director in cultural, historical, and cinematic contexts. Lean’s approach to filmmaking was far different than that of many of his contemporaries. He chose his films carefully and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a period of more than forty years. Those films, however, have become some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. Lean is best known for his epics, but Phillips also focuses on Lean’s successful adaptations of famous works of literature, including retellings of plays such as Brief Encounter (1945) and novels such as Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), and A Passage to India (1984). From expansive studies of war and strife to some of literature’s greatest high comedies and domestic dramas, Lean imbued all of his films with his unique creative vision. Few directors can match Lean’s ability to combine narrative sweep and psychological detail, and Phillips goes beyond Lean’s epics to reveal this unifying characteristic in the director’s body of work. Beyond the Epic is a vital assessment of a great director’s artistic process and his place in the film industry.
Author : Sandra Lean,Barry Chattington
Publisher : Andr Deutsch
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0233002480
Perhaps the best known and most revered film director in the history of British cinema, a recent poll placed five Lean films in the 10 best films of all time. This book gives an illustrate insight into the life of the filmmaker, David Lean.
Author : Sandra Lean,Barry Chattington
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106011209811
David Lean: An Intimate Portrait provides a personal and rare glimpse into the life and work of the complex director of such amazing films as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, and A Passage to India. These works raised the epic film to new levels of critical respectability. He is one of the greatest film directors of all time, with his movies having been nominated for an astonishing 57 Academy Awards and winning 27 Oscars. Authored by his widow, Lady Sandra Lean, this is an account in text and images by the people who knew David Lean personally and professionally. Thousands of words have been written about David Lean the film director and the importance of his career; yet until now, very little has been said about the man who sacrificed much for his art. This book gives an insiders view of Lean's six marriages and is illustrated throughout with more than 300 well-known and previously unpublished photographs. The photographs are complemented by David's inspiration: letters, quotations, memorabilia and anecdotes relating to his travels and his films. David Lean: An Intimate Portrait is a unique study, containing a wealth of material from the life of a man whose films continue to entertain millions.
Author : John Orr
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748642304
In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism that has been much neglected in the study of UK cinema and downplayed in the development of Western cinema. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a fresh perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped British cinema history.Covering the period between 1929 and the present, this book examines outstanding directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Carol Reed, Nicholas Roeg, Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and articulates two genres vital to British cinema - the fugitive film and the trauma film - which bridge the gap between romantic and modern forms. Two detailed chapters also assess the powerful impact of major expatriate directors like Losey, Antonioni, Polanski, Kubrick and Skolimowski on modernism in the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed critical readings explore Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Black Narcissus, Odd Man Out, The Passionate Friends, The Innocents, Lawrence of Arabia, The Servant, Blow-Up, A Clockwork Orange, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, Moonlighting, the Bill Douglas trilogy and The Long Day Closes. The book concludes with an analysis of the persistence of romantic and modernist forms in the 21st century in two recent prize-winning features, Control and Hunger.
Author : Adrian Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Lawrence of Arabia (Motion picture)
ISBN : UCSC:32106011494306
Author : Louis P. Castelli,Caryn Lynn Cleeland
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003857771
Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 0756622034
From Hollywood to Bollywood, this book explores every aspect of film, covering the story of cinema, how movies are made, movie genres, world cinema, A-Z of directors, and top 100 movies.
Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573624909
Characters: 6 male, 5 female Interior Set One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect
Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385418133
This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list—Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound—brings a flood of memories. In this essential text, reissued on the occasion of Hitchcock's centennial, internationally renowned Hitchcock authority Donald Spoto describes and analyzes every movie made by this master filmmaker. Illustrated throughout with shots from each film, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock also includes a storyboard section, a complete filmography, and “A Hitchcock Album” (sixteen pages of photos) as an added celebration of his life.