David Lean Articles
Jean Simmons on TCM: GREAT EXPECTATIONS, BLACK NARCISSUS
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), [...]
A PASSAGE TO INDIA Review – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee David Lean
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, [...]
BRIEF ENCOUNTER Review – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – David Lean
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 [...]
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on TCM
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 [...]