![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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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