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...attention to what he says. During the past half-century or so, he has played dozens of memorable roles: a Prime Minister (Disraeli), a Pope (Innocent III), a King (Charles I), a prince (Arabia's Faisal), a fanatical colonel (Nicholson, in The Bridge on the River Kwai), a mad dictator (Hitler), a Jedi knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) and a spymaster (George Smiley in TV adaptations of John le Carre's espionage sagas). Now, at 71, he has added another role to that impressive list: author of one of the best show-business memoirs of recent years, a witty, wise...
Favorite movie: Bridge Over the River Kwai...
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...
...such thing as an 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...
...Beverly Hills, Calif. After he wrote Home of the Brave (1949), about racism, and The Men (1950), about disabled veterans, his career was interrupted in 1951 by his "uncooperative" testimony at a Red-hunting congressional inquiry. In 1958 the script he co-wrote for The Bridge on the River Kwai won an Oscar, but as a blacklistee working under a pseudonym he could not claim...