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David Lean (Paperback, Main)
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Huge biography of the great filmmaker who died in 1991, leaving a
legacy of classic films including Brief Encounter, Lawrence of
Arabia and A Passage to India. Packed with photos and full of
detail, the book reveals a life as colourful as that of most of his
subjects. Lean had six wives and a string of mistresses and became
Britain's foremost film director despite a Quaker upbringing which
saw cinemas as 'absolute dens of vice'. Beautifully illustrated and
impeccably indexed, this is the definitive book on this complex man
and his work. (Kirkus UK)
In the course of his career, David Lean created some of the most
unforgettable images in cinema history: the terrifying opening
graveyard sequence in Great Expectations, the poignant railway
farewell in Brief Encounter, the shimmering desert of Lawrence of
Arabia and the frozen expanses of revolutionary Russia in Dr
Zhivago. Film-maker and historian Kevin Brownlow spent many hours
with Lean, who talked openly about a career which lasted over 50
years. Furthermore, Lean's family and friends - from the son from
whom he was estranged, to the women who loved him - talk frankly
about his complex personality: a man who was charming,
self-deprecating, autocratic and ruthless, and yet surprisingly
generous. Brownlow's definitive biography of Lean leaves the reader
with an understanding of the man and an appreciation of his
cinematic achievement.
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