Yet Lean’s deep interest in complex characters, his brilliant way with actors, and his classic sense of storytelling were never trumped by scale. Summertime, his gorgeous 1955 Technicolor trip to Venice with Katharine Hepburn, marked a turning point in his career: the sun-dappled location shoot was galvanizing for Lean, and the remainder of his films, from The Bridge on the River Kwai to A Passage to India, could be considered outdoor spectacles. All are graced by evocative, shadowy black-and-white cinematography and elegantly restrained compositions.

In the forties and early fifties, having moved to directing, he made several luminous films, including adaptations of such classic and important contemporary works from the stage and page as Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit and Still Life ( Brief Encounter, in the film version), and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. 329 reviews of Olive or Twist A haven for suits and the theater crowd, Olive or Twist has a great selection of creative martinis for all drinkers- from a. Sinopsis Trata del lugar en que vio la luz primera Oliver Twist y de las circunstancias que concurrieron en su nacimiento Entre los edificios públicos de que se siente orgullosa una ciudad, cuyo nombre creo prudente callar por varias razones, hay uno antiguamente común a la mayor parte de las ciudades, grandes o pequeñas: el hospicio. Among those are pictures that he was responsible for editing, early on in his work in film: some of his national cinema’s greatest hits, including Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s Pygmalion, Gabriel Pascal’s Major Barbara, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 49th Parallel. But the long and eclectic career of this legendary British director encompasses arresting intimacy as well, as evidenced by the films of his in the Criterion Collection.

For many cinephiles, the name David Lean signifies grand moviemaking-sweeping epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.

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