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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; David Lean</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/david-lean/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Jules Dassin, Federico Fellini, Arthur Penn</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1960s-jules-dassin-arthur-penn/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1960s-jules-dassin-arthur-penn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:29:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25976</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva in DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour (top); Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin in Dassin's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Never on Sunday (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1953-1959: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen 1960 DGA (14)Vincente Minnelli, Bells Are RingingWalter Lang, Can-CanDelbert Mann, The Dark at the Top of the StairsRichard Brooks, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-1960s-jules-dassin-arthur-penn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-jack-clayton-david-lean-stanley-donen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-jack-clayton-david-lean-stanley-donen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:15:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36448</guid> <description><![CDATA[BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-elizabeth-taylor-vanessa-redgrave-bafta-fellowship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, YOUNG WINSTON, THE FOUR FEATHERS on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-young-winston-the-four-feathers/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-young-winston-the-four-feathers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:18:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27390</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Lawrence of Arabia Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Race and Hollywood: Arab Images on Film&#34; continues this evening with four movies about European powers and their difficult relationship with &#34;the Arab races&#34;: Lawrence of Arabia, Lion of the Desert, The Four Feathers, and Young Winston. In David Lean's sprawling Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole is a much taller version of T. E. Lawrence, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-young-winston-the-four-feathers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean Simmons on TCM: GREAT EXPECTATIONS, BLACK NARCISSUS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-great-expectations-black-narcissus/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-great-expectations-black-narcissus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:52:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27198</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in David Lean's Great Expectations Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box-office draw, Simmons either starred or was featured in a number of the most important movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Among those are Laurence Olivier's Best Picture Oscar winner Hamlet (1948), Henry Koster's CinemaScope blockbuster The Robe (1953), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-great-expectations-black-narcissus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A PASSAGE TO INDIA Review &#8211; Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee d: David Lean</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/a-passage-to-india-judy-davis-david-lean-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/a-passage-to-india-judy-davis-david-lean-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:26:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18846</guid> <description><![CDATA[A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) Direction: David Lean Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Screenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster's 1924 novel and Santha Rama Rau's 1960 play Oscar Movies Recommended Judy Davis, A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, Miss Quested (Judy Davis) and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/a-passage-to-india-judy-davis-david-lean-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BRIEF ENCOUNTER Review &#8211; Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard &#8211; d: David Lean</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/brief-encounter-celia-johnson-trevor-howard-david-lean-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/brief-encounter-celia-johnson-trevor-howard-david-lean-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:20:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18853</guid> <description><![CDATA[BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) Direction: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward's play Still Life Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Brief Encounter Synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros: Shadow-bathed, smoke-enshrouded railway stations (cinematography by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/brief-encounter-celia-johnson-trevor-howard-david-lean-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-alec-guinness-david-lean-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-alec-guinness-david-lean-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:36:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25469</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean's 1957 blockbuster and multiple Oscar winner The Bridge on the River Kwai will be presented tonight at 5 p.m. PT on Turner Classic Movies. Many consider The Bridge on the River Kwai one of the greatest war movies ever made. Whether or not you agree with that assessment, Lean's war [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-alec-guinness-david-lean-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Peter O&#039;Toole on TCM: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE LAST EMPEROR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-otoole-lawrence-of-arabia-the-last-emperor-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-otoole-lawrence-of-arabia-the-last-emperor-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:11:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25066</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, Aug. 28. TCM's &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; series has only four more days to go. [Peter O'Toole schedule.] O'Toole isn't one of my favorite actors &#8212; I usually find his acting, well, actorish &#8212; but he is one of the favorite actors of a whole lot of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-otoole-lawrence-of-arabia-the-last-emperor-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Mills TCM Schedule: GANDHI, THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-gandhi-the-rocking-horse-winner/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-gandhi-the-rocking-horse-winner/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:17:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25018</guid> <description><![CDATA[John Mills in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi John Mills on TCM: I WAS MONTY'S DOUBLE, RYAN'S DAUGHTER, HOBSON'S CHOICE Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman. Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-114 mins. 5:00 AM Hobson's Choice (1954) A [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-gandhi-the-rocking-horse-winner/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Mills on TCM: I WAS MONTY&#039;S DOUBLE, RYAN&#039;S DAUGHTER, HOBSON&#039;S CHOICE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-i-was-montys-double-ryans-daughter-hobsons-choice/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-i-was-montys-double-ryans-daughter-hobsons-choice/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:16:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25019</guid> <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; series on Sunday, Aug. 22, are reruns. The one exception is I Was Monty's Double, a 1958 John Guillermin-directed World War II drama. [John Mills schedule.] I Was Monty's Double sounds like a particularly curious effort because it's based on a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/john-mills-tcm-i-was-montys-double-ryans-daughter-hobsons-choice/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE Director Ronald Neame Dies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-neame-dies-the-poseidon-adventure/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-neame-dies-the-poseidon-adventure/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:39:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24571</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons in Ronald Neame's The Poseidon Adventure Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on Wednesday, June 16, at a hospital in Los Angeles. Neame, who never recovered after suffering a fall, was 99. In the grandiose and technically impressive (but slow-moving) disaster flick, Gene Hackman led an all-star cast through the bowels of a capsized [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ronald-neame-dies-the-poseidon-adventure/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10503</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies' month-long series &#34;Great Directors&#34; will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM's &#34;greats&#34; are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Maurice Jarre</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/composers/maurice-jarre/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/composers/maurice-jarre/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9636</guid> <description><![CDATA[Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84. Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/composers/maurice-jarre/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2009: Maurice Jarre to Receive Honorary Golden Bear</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5866</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 59th Berlin International Film Festival's Homage will be dedicated to Maurice Jarre, 84, who will receive the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement on February 12, 2009. Among Jarre's screen credits are the David Lean epics and sub-epics Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India, plus Les Yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face, The Collector, Grand Prix, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michael Caine Thriller GET CARTER Tops Best British Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2004 06:43:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/world-cinema/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Total Film magazine recently asked twenty-five British film critics to come up with their choices of the best British films ever made. The result is somewhat surprising, with the 1971 Mike Hodges-directed thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and some scary-looking weaponry, was selected as Britain’s very best movie ever. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), seen by many Christians as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1945</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:05:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter FILM Blithe Spirit d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson Brief Encounter d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame Dead of Night d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail Les Enfants du paradis / Children [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1945/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1944</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1944/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1944/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:04:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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