David Lean could shoot a landscape like no one else – in India, in Ceylon, in Jordan – filling the screen with stunning imagery. “I like spectacle,” he once told an interviewer. But he could also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Cannes Film Festival you expect to get into big arguments about the quality of the movies on view. It goes with the ...

Barnaby Thompson's enthralling documentary lionizes a director who was one of the inventors of modern movies. But his personal life was a mess. One of the fascinating dimensions of the movies made in ...

CINEMADavid Lean: Filmmaker and PhilosopherLydia GoehrBloomsbury Academic $40.49 As one of British cinema’s most highly regarded directors, David Lean has been fortunate in attracting such accounts of ...

It has been 60 years since David Lean made one of his masterpieces, and the film was controversial for many years, thanks to the fact that it was based on a banned book. There are few filmmakers as ...

Barnaby Thompson’s doc traces the life and career of the ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ director, whose influence is acknowledged by luminaries like Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, Steven Spielberg and ...

Dublin's Light House cinema celebrates the achievements of director David Lean this month with a series of afternoon screenings. Their Lean season began last week with Lawrence of Arabia, his most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Lean could shoot a landscape like no one else – in India, in Ceylon, in Jordan – filling the screen with stunning imagery.

At the Cannes Film Festival you expect to get into big arguments about the quality of the movies on view. It goes with the territory. Everyone has an opinion and most are not afraid to give one. That ...