Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Lean and Lord Snowdon take aim at A Passage to India
Last winter in Bangalore, India, a pair of Englishmen stood peering through camera lenses. Two more Westerners squinting into viewfinders - nothing new to India. But these were no tourists out for holiday views of the East. One was Sir David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, shooting his first film in 14 years, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Pas sage to India. A few yards away was Lord Snowdon, the photographer who expelled posture and plumage from celebrity portraits, arching for shots of the cast and crew...
Amid a tumble of elephants, microphones and turbaned extras, Lean channeled the action into a flowing river of film, while Snowdon fished for moments of the witty and sublime...
Sequestered now in a cutting room near London, Lean slices his $17.5 mil lion project to an epic but watchable 2½ hours, set for mid-December release. A few miles away, Snowdon contemplates his shots of those days in India. Lean is often called a craftsman, so who better to capture him at work than Snowdon, a no-nonsense photographer who shuns talk of art, but finds artful inflections in the vernacular of professional picture taking...
Snowdon traveled to India at the request of the film's producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin. He had photographed some of their Agatha Christie projects (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean...