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  1. Mar 1, 2024 · Love him or hate him, David Lean was ‘the Christopher Nolan of his day’. During his lifetime, the British director’s works were either heralded as masterpieces or accused of mawkishness and ...

  2. Jun 12, 2024 · Brace yourself for a cinematic journey through time as we round up the timeless works of David Lean, the legendary British filmmaker known for his epic, Oscar-winning films.

  3. Sep 4, 2024 · Titled Epic – The Life and Times of David Lean, the documentary will give an account of the Oscar winning filmmaker's life and career with previously unreleased archive footage as well as the contributions of leading filmmakers, the BFI National Archive and the David Lean Foundation.

  4. Dec 6, 2023 · You look at the work of David Lean, you know, and Hitchcock and those people, you know. And I had no access to Scorsese's work or the great really sort of ground-breaking work that, that that happened in the 70s.

  5. Dec 15, 2023 · The portrayal of women as a detour to self-revelation has been the cunning strategy throughout David Lean's cinema, from Brief Encounter (1945) to the final scene of A Passage to India (1984).

  6. Sep 6, 2024 · Clapham and Streatham provide the setting for David Leans exquisite family drama This Happy Breed – one of Martin Scorsese’s hidden gems of British cinema. Would today’s south Londoners recognise them?

  7. Sep 5, 2024 · Norman Spencer, the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who worked alongside famed director David Lean on films including Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the...

  8. Jun 26, 2024 · Even the best directors in cinema history aren’t immune from the odd misfire or two, but David Lean was left so devastated by the failure of one movie that he considered abandoning the industry forever in the aftermath.

  9. Aug 8, 2024 · David Lean’s competitive achievements are remarkable. He won the Mens Overall at the 1966 North American Water Ski Championship and claimed the Canadian Water Ski Championship title three times (1959, 1961, and 1962).

  10. Dec 13, 2023 · In this year's David Lean Lecture, director Shane Meadows talks about how his passion for film originated from a rainy weekend and through pirated VHS tapes of Spaghetti Westerns.