Of photographs from his life and location workĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:50:38.900079 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1139110 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid S0022 Donor 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 Yet he showed in his work a deep understanding of humanity. The troubled Quaker family from which Lean came influenced his relationship with his son, his brother, and his six wives. Movies as realized by a master, but also of the highly personal costs of genius. , brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry. Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By.

All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacularĬolor epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Includes bibliographical references (pages 748-754) and index

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