Barnaby Thompson's enthralling documentary celebrates a director who was one of the visionaries of movies. But his personal life was a mess.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Lean could shoot a landscape like no one else – in India, in Ceylon, in Jordan – filling the screen with stunning imagery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Cannes Film Festival you expect to get into big arguments about the quality of the movies on view. It goes with the ...

One of the fascinating dimensions of the movies made in the studio-system era is how the perceptions of those movies - and, in a strange way, the movies themselves - change over time. I went into ...

Perhaps the defining paradox of visionary British film director David Lean's life is the discordance between his professional career, shepherding monumentally scaled productions, often in far-flung ...

Barnaby Thompson’s doc traces the life and career of the ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ director, whose influence is acknowledged by luminaries like Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, Steven Spielberg and ...

When Barnaby Thompson set out to tell the story of David Lean, he wasn't expecting it to take on a narrative much like one of Lean's own epics. Lean, one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, ...

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide ...