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David Lean. In honoring Sir David Lean with its 18th Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute does more than salute an already much-honored director. For behind the image of the consummate craftsman whose painstaking devotion to technique produced such classics as GREAT EXPECTATIONS, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI ...
Mar 25, 2022 · David Lean’s six definitive films: In Which We Serve (1942). As a lover of cinema, David Lean’s career started at the very lowest rung of the industry ladder, visiting Gaumont Studios where his enthusiasm was met with opportunity, working his way up from being a tea boy, to a clapper boy to eventually become a third assistant director.
Sep 17, 2023 · The final film David Lean directed was A Passage to India, and it's generally seen as a slightly stronger effort than his penultimate film, Ryan's Daughter.It's also definable as an epic, though ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Discover the inspiring story of one of cinema's greatest directors, David Lean. From his early days as a film editor, to his epic classics like 'Lawrence of ...
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Apr 15, 2016 · Around the world with David Lean: a place odyssey. On the 25th anniversary of his death, we celebrate the wanderlust of one of Britain’s great adventurer filmmakers. A suburban upbringing in “very grey” Croydon led David Lean to delight passionately in the magical exoticism he eventually discovered at the local cinema.
Jul 21, 2018 · David Lean was born in Croydon in Surrey in 1908 into a strict Quaker family, and was forbidden from going to the cinema until he was 17 years old. After a brief spell working at his father's accountancy firm, he joined the film industry as a tea boy at Gaumont-British Studios in 1927. There he graduated to clapper boy, before moving into the ...
David Lean. “My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”.
