Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such is the artistry of David I can. Throughout his 42-year career, including such films as Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, Lean has been known for the intensity of his images. His newest effort, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, is another sweeping, superbly majestic movie, which conveys the plight of the lone, insignificant individual in a vast, inscrutable universe...
...number of alleged difficulties, none of which appear very compelling to me. The first difficulty lies with whether abortion would be treated as first degree murder, and if so who would be prosecuted. The act that most old abortion statutes, by the author's own charge, criminalized the doctor, seems to answer that question. The mother, in-most cases, is so traumatized and exploited by the abortionist, and often by the fetus's father, that she is under enough mental duress to exculpate her from a large degree of the guilt, even under conventional insanity law. That...
...things: "The film maker's utter lack of pretension, and his silver-haired, craggy good looks. He has the kind of face that centuries ago was stamped on coins." That face would not have been out of place in a David Lean movie, say Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago. Or, for that matter, this season's hit, A Passage to India. But Worrell soon learned that it would not be easy to get to the man behind the face. "Drawing Lean out was like pulling water from a very deep well," she says. "I was at such...
...idle shot, something that survives to the final cut merely because it is striking in its beauty or novel in its impact. Particularly in the Lean films that people conveniently but mistakenly identify as "epics" or "spectacles"?movies like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago?the largest weight of his meaning is carried not by dialogue but by images, and by his manner of juxtaposing them in the editing...
...beginning works seem adolescent, that may be because Garcia Márquez was only 19 when the first story, The Third Resignation, was published in 1947. It is a derivative exercise in the macabre and surrealistic, enlivened with a touch of humor. A boy overhears a doctor conferring with his mother: "Madam, your child has a grave illness: he is dead." The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry sweep through these early tales, the fear of being buried alive confirmed or denied through trick endings...