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Brief Encounter Is A Movie That Matters

scsemmler wrote 1 day ago: This movie is sadly becoming fast forgotten.  This is the iconic forbidden romance movie.  The day … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, This Movie Matters, Brief Encounter, Celia Howard, romance movie, Trevor Howard

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Review2 comments

shafling wrote 3 days ago: There is a confusion in my mind. Which is David Lean’s best movie ….is it Lawrence of Ar … more →

Tags: Movies, Clint Eastwood, Hollywood, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Lawrence of Arabia - The History of a Film

sjnewman wrote 1 week ago: Read my feature on Lean’s film… Lawrence of Arabia – The History of a Film Shared … more →

Tags: Books, films, Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, World War One, Freddie Young, Peter O'Toole, Robert Bolt, Terence Rattigan

The Sad State Of Film Criticism1 comment

halmasonberg wrote 2 weeks ago: The internet has been a blessing and a curse to the world of film criticism. The bad side is that ev … more →

Tags: film, Youth Without Youth, Kubrick, Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream, Sidney Lumet, Roger Ebert, Francis Ford Coppola, Watchmen

The Bridge on the River Kwai Sai2 comments

Aurora wrote 3 weeks ago: An undecided venue – assumes that viewers will accept that Ceylon is in Burma. The story revol … more →

Tags: Not-so-mundane, Movie, Orientalism, The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Capitalism Manifesto

Agonistes wrote 3 weeks ago: Fareed Zakaria has an article in the June 22 issue of Newsweek on the current state of capitalism. I … more →

Tags: Political, 1962 Academy Awards, capitalism, Economic Systems, Fareed Zakaria, Geed is Good, human condition, Lawrence of Arabia, Newsweek

Kites' to hit screens in December

fenilseta wrote 3 weeks ago: The much-talked about Hrithik Roshan starrer ‘Kites’ is scheduled for Decembe … more →

Tags: Bollywood News, Kites, barbara mori, Fenil, Bollywood, Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan, Anurag Basu, Director

Ryan’s Daughter at the Rafael

Lincoln Spector wrote 1 month ago: I caught the presentation of Ryan’s Daughter at the Rafael, last night. It was part of their Films o … more →

Tags: First-person Report, Bay Area, film, pixar

Dickens, Oliver (1837 - 1839) Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

Ben wrote 1 month ago: Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress (1837 – 1839) Charles Dickens Wordsworth Classics, 506pp … more →

Tags: Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, The Parish Boy's Progress, Nicholas Nickleby, freidrich engels, Working Class in England in 1844, George Cruickshank, fagin, bill sikes

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

glanzerr wrote 2 months ago: Very long, mixed feelings. 5.18.09 Watched with Lauren Over the course of the third week of May, Lau … more →

Tags: adventure, Drama, War, Alec Guinness, anthony quinn, Best Picture, Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole, Review

Brief Encounter

mistercomfypants wrote 2 months ago: Title: Brief Encounter Year: 1945 Director: David Lean Writer: Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean … more →

Tags: Movies, top 250, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame, 1945, Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Sergei Rachmaninoff

david lean, part 1 (or i wonder why she thinks my journal is post-modern)

gregbrown wrote 2 months ago: (enter room, tracking shot, follow feet of narrator) we sit 3am in the waffle house as one should on … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poem, Waffle House

Oliver Twist (1948)4 comments

Vern McIlhenney wrote 2 months ago: It’s difficult to know what to mention first- Lean’s masterfully clear narrative struct … more →

Tags: 10/10, 1940s, British Cinema, Drama, Alec Guinness, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, John Howard Davies

Review : The Bridge on the River Kwai

jedimoonshyne wrote 2 months ago: The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean, 1957 David Lean’s epic wartime picture The Bridge … more →

Tags: 4½ Stars, film, 1957, Alec Guinness, American, BRIDGE, British, Classic, Colonel Nicholson

A. Hall8 comments

dcairns wrote 2 months ago: “8 DEC. A HALL. RM.” Not the Albert Hall who plays the Chief in APOCALYPSE NOW, whose n … more →

Tags: film, The Knack, Richard Lester, How I Won the War, Lawrie Knight, Dario Argento, Apocalypse Now, Petulia, Reggie Nalder

Spielberg on Lean and Kubrick1 comment

jwakeham wrote 2 months ago: If Steven Spielberg hadn’t become a great director, he would have made a great critic. In the … more →

Tags: Fiction, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick

Genius or bastard?

priscilla85 wrote 2 months ago: I was reading a very good article in the March issue of Vanity Fair about John Ford and the use of M … more →

Tags: Auteurs, Buzz Bissinger, Great Directors, Hitchcock, John Ford, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, robrt

Doctor Zhivago

mistercomfypants wrote 3 months ago: Title: Doctor Zhivago Year: 1965 Director: David Lean Writer: Robert Bolt, based on the novel by Bor … more →

Tags: Movies, Best Screenplay, top 250, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Alec Guinness, Robert Bolt, Boris Pasternak

Great Expectations

mistercomfypants wrote 3 months ago: Title: Great Expectations Year: 1946 Director: David Lean Writers: Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lea … more →

Tags: Movies, top 250, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, Kay Walsh, Charles Dickens


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