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	David Lean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir David Lean (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was a British film director, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago.
		Lean was a long-term resident of Limehouse, East London.
		Kevin Brownlow, David Lean, Faber and Faber, 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Lean (510 words)

	David Lean \| Biography (1908-1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lean's fascination with the effect of natural environment on character and motivation led him to the wildest parts of the globe - a restless quest that was reflected in the powerful, contradictory emotions that swayed his protagonists....
		David Lean was at once the most prestigious and most mysterious British film director; he was also perhaps the least understood, having had an unenviable reputation among the most influential British and American critics.
		Lean's heroes and heroines were compulsive fantasists and fanatics, whether they were found in suburban railway stations, in decaying Victorian mansions, designing supersonic aircraft, on holiday in Venice, building bridges in Burma, forging myths from the sands of Arabia, or dreaming of escape from an Irish village torn apart by racial hatred and religion.
	www.leninimports.com /david_lean.html (665 words)

	David Lean : An Intimate Portrait by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Lean was one of the greatest moviemakers of the twentieth century.
		Here, Lady Lean has written a highly personal account of her late husband's life and work, combining the testimony of David's friends and colleagues with over 300 images, many of which are previously unpublished.
		David Lean - An Intimate Portrait is a unique, often moving study of an extraordinary man, whose work continues to entertain millions around the world and who is still perceived by many in the cinema industry today as the ultimate film-maker.
	www.law-books.info /stuff-0789306263.html (250 words)

	David Lean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you look back on Lean's movies, you tend to think first in terms of what used to be called production values, a vague term that implies the collaboration between the director and his team of visual artists -- the cinematographer, the production and costume designers, and the editor.
		Kevin Brownlow's new book, David Lean: A Biography, is a heavyweight item (810 pages) -- appropriate to the man who, influenced by the Griffith and Vidor and Rex Ingram pictures he saw as a teenager, became the most celebrated epic filmmaker of the '50s and '60s.
		It helps to know that Lean was raised by a proper Quaker mother, whose taste didn't run to vulgarities like movies, and a father whose emotional availability was erratic at best (his parents finally separated), and that all his life his friends observed an unresolvable duality in him.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/01-97/DAVID_LEAN.html (1175 words)

	David Lean
		Ultimately, neither Lean's fame as a filmmaker nor any quirks of personality can displace or distort his real legacy: the sixteen motion pictures which bear the credit “Directed by David Lean.” In the first ten years of his directing career, from 1942 to 1952, Lean completed nine features.
		Lean's selection of detail and emphasis was striking for 1948 in that it repeatedly tested the limits of the basic suspension of disbelief.
		Lean shifts to a wide angle lens for this, suddenly extending perspective and making the man and the objects of the room in front of her seem farther away than they actually are, visually rendering her state of mind as she draws back from them into herself [Frames 8 and 9].
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/lean.html (5888 words)

	The Films of David Lean quiz -- free game
		David Lean is the first British director to be nominated for an Academy Award.
		Lean badly wanted, but was never able, to film a biography of a great statesman.
		Lean himself was nominated 10 times throughout his career, and won twice.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=92183&origin= (358 words)

	Britmovie - David Lean Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lean turned down several chances to become a director in low budget films, and got his first chance to direct (unofficially) on Major Barbara (1941), one of the most celebrated movies of the early 1940s.
		Noel Coward hired Lean as his directorial collaborator on his wartime classic In Which We Serve (1943), and from there Lean's career was made - for the next 15 years, he became known throughout the world for his close, intimate, serious film dramas.
		Lean's next film, Lawrence of Arabia (1962), based on the life and military career of World War I British hero T.E. Lawrence, became the definitive dramatic film epic of its generation.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/d_lean/biog.html (442 words)

	Papers of David Lean
		David Lean was born in Croydon in 1908 into a Quaker family.
		David Lean began his career as a director in 1942 with In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with Noel Coward.
		David Lean's career took a down turn with the failure of Ryan's Daughter and it was not until 1984 that he directed another feature film A Passage to India.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/lean.html (557 words)

	Amazon.com: David Lean: A Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Lean directed a number of grand films, among them "The Bridge Over the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia," "Dr.
		Lean's was a mastery of style and entertainment, enriching story telling with beautiful visual imagery and word economy in the best sense, making the language all the more meaningful.
		Kevin Brownlow's "David Lean: A Biography" is a landmark in the field of cinema studies.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312145780?v=glance (1717 words)

	David Lean -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lean also wrote and edited a number of the films he directed.
		He was particularly known for the stunning beauty he brought to a series of films by director David Lean, three of which--Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr. Zhivago (1965), and Ryan's...
		David Schlessinger, an expert on aging,discusses the impact the Genome Project will have on preventing the onset of many diseases of old age.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312125 (726 words)

	Classic Movie Stars: David Lean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Lean was born March 25 th 1908, and his strict religious background meant that movies were forbidden.
		Although Lean was offered several chances to direct some low budget movies, he declined.
		Lean was actually working on another movie ‘Nostramus’ when he passed away in 1991.
	www.classicmoviestars.org /david-lean.html (218 words)

	Sir David Lean -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Lean was the son of strict Quaker parents and did not see his first film until age 17.
		David Diamond was considered one of the most important U.S. composers of the 20th century.
		He started writing music in his own notation when he was a boy, and he went on to become one of the most prolific composers of his age.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047523?source=RSSOTD (696 words)

	David Lean
		That was the profession his father took and the young Lean was expected to follow in his footsteps.
		Lean was to become a highly respected editor, working on Gaumont Sound News (1930) and British Movietone News (1931-32), and later fictional features such Escape Me Never (1935), As You Like It (1936) and Pygmalion (1938).
		In 1990, Lean, who has been cited as an influence for directors such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, was the first non-American recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement award.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_cinema/38026 (459 words)

	Sir David Lean
		Lean's next three films came from Coward's pen: THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), the story of a London family from 1919 to 1939; the rousingly entertaining BLITHE SPIRIT (1945); and the quietly effective BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), about a bored housewife (Celia Johnson) who almost has an affair with a doctor (Trevor Howard).
		Lean's rollicking version of the stage comedy HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954), the story of a woman's emancipation from her overbearing father, featured the first in a series of strong, independent women characters that would include Lara (DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, 1965), Rosy Ryan (RYAN'S DAUGHTER, 1970), and Miss Quested and Mrs.
		Lean devoted a year of preparation to THE BOUNTY in the early 1980s, only to see it made by other hands.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/lean_d.htm (636 words)

	David Lean at Reel Classics
		David Lean: an intimate portrait by Sandra Lean and Barry Chattington (London: André Deutsch, 2001).
		David Lean: a guide to references and resources by Louis P. Castelli and Caryn Lynn Cleeland (Boston: G.K. Hall, c1980).
		The cinema of David Lean by Gerald Pratley (South Brunswick: A. Barnes, 1973, c1974).
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Lean/lean.htm (275 words)

	David Lean and His Films
		David Laen was the Academy Award-winning director of such classics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Brief Encounter, Great Expectations.
		Updated and extensively revised, this first American edition of David Lean and His Films offers the reader an in-depth analysis, discussion, and critique of Lean’s directorial output.
		He is the author of The Samurai Film and the co-author of David Lean and His Films.
	www.silmanjamespress.com /book_description/david_lean.html (297 words)

	David Lean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In general, Lean has learned from Stroheim that if you build a town as your set you have an instantaneous surrealism, which is entirely free to be photographed at its real or contrived points of contact with nature.
		The poet lives at the point of his pen; humiliation and defeat are his sustenance (Borges).
		No critic is unfailingly correct in his estimations, and Truffaut was never more wrong than when he angrily dismissed Lean's works as impostures.
	mulrooney.portland.co.uk /lean.html (374 words)

	screenonline: Lean, Sir David (1908-1991) Biography
		McFarlane, Brian, 'David Lean' in An Autobiography of British Cinema (London: Methuen, 1997) pp.
		Pratley, Gerald, The Cinema of David Lean (South Brunswick and New York: A. Barnes/ London: Tantivy Press, 1974)
		David Lean film about a woman who marries for money rather than love
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/446899 (1747 words)

	David Lean @ Filmbug
		David Lean was a British film director, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia.
		With the advent of colour, Lean became well-known as the director of blockbusters such as Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Academy Award.
		Tell us what you think of David Lean in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.com /db/4167 (284 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: David Lean: A Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In discussions with the author, film director David Lean talks about his cinema career, which spanned more than half a century and encompassed films such as "Brief Encounter", "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia".
		The first few chapters go through Lean's early life in exhaustive detail but are worth reading as an insight into how Lean's relationship with his family (particularly his father) affected his future cinematic vision.
		Brownlow interviews virtually everyone close to Lean and the list is exhaustive: From Melvyn Bragg (who tried to write The Bounty) to Nic Roeg (who was fired as the DP on Zhivago).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571191681 (550 words)

	David Lean Filmography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today David Lean is best known as film director.
		However few are aware that prior to launching his directorial career, David Lean was a skilled editor on some of Britain's most respected films.
		To further explore a particular film that Lean directed, please visit that film's synopsis or film credits section for related materials.
	www.davidlean.com /filmography.html (67 words)

	David Lean (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The American Film Institute Salute to David Lean (1990) (TV)....
		David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago (1965) (uncredited)....
		Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean (1965)....
	uk.imdb.com /name/nm0000180 (398 words)

	Sir David Lean
		Meeting two masters: Sir David Lean and Lord Snowdon take aim at A Passage to India.
		Chef David Campbell will be the vital ingredient in the players' health and fitness regime when he accompanies the Lions on their eight-week tour of New Zealand in May.(Sport) (Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland))
		`I always liked asking about his other women'; When Sandra Cooke bumped into David Lean in Harrods, she had no idea that she would one day become his sixth (and last) wife.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0829159.html (344 words)

	The South Bank Show: Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt - TV.com
		We don't have allusions for Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt.
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	www.tv.com /south-bank-show/sir-david-lean-robert-bolt/episode/259313/summary.html (101 words)

	People Weekly: Passages. (David Lean) (column)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Lean, 83, the virtuoso British filmmaker who directed such classics as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), died after a long illness on April 15 in London.
		Lean, who began in movies at 19 by fetching tea at a British film studio, made 16 films during his 49-year career.
		His films won a total of 28 Oscars, and Lean himself was named Best Director twice.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:10608322&refid=holomed_1 (214 words)

	David Lean
		It is an elevating situation that those who beautify life are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their undying creations.
		So, if life seems tedious join us and move on into the skies with David Lean.
		It is an elevating situation that those who embellish life are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their undying creations.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Directors/English/index5/Engy20045.htm (183 words)

	David Lean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is an elevating situation that those who adorn the mind are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their undying creations.
		It is an elevating situation that those who embellish the mind are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their undying creations.
		So, if you want to enjoy yourself come and move on into the skies with David Lean.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Directors/English/index5/Engy20029.htm (187 words)

	David Lean Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Lean directed motion pictures with an acknowledged consciousness of his actions and a stated set of intentions...
		Here you will find loads of.....information on David Lean, including complete film synopsis.....and other media related material...
		David Lean Introduction Catalogue David Lean as editor David Lean as director David Lean's unrealised films This site shows highlights from the David Lean collections across the bfi, and...
	www.lawrenceofarabia-dvd.co.uk /directory/David-Lean.html (331 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Lean, Sir David @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LEAN, SIR DAVID [Lean, Sir David] 1908-91, English film director, producer, and scriptwriter, b.
		He was one of Britain's most accomplished film editors before turning to directing.
		Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Lean-Dav&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (159 words)

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