Wright on Lean
"People talk about this grand, epic quality in [David] Lean's films, but I love them because they are pure. Clean, simple -- even minimalist. He never uses anything he doesn't need, and, like the match and the sunrise, it encapsulates more than a million words.
"No one else comes close, but it gives me something to aspire to." -- Atonement director Joe Wright writing yesterday (6.5) in the Times Online on the occasion of a British Film Institute tribute.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 6, 2008 at 4:14 PM
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T. S. Idiot
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I agree with Wright. Lean is one of my favorites. Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Hobson's Choice, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago are nearly perfect. Lawrence of Arabia is perfect. What's especially interesting about Lean is that as he moved from intimate dramas to films with larger scope, the bigger films retained the intimacy of the character relationships. As a man who clearly hated the masses while admiring indivuals, he is also a perfect Wellsian auteur. If Brownlow's outstanding biography, the best I've ever read of anyone in movies, is to be believed, he was an asshole, but geniuses don't need to be as modest and self-effacing as us mere mortals.
Posted by T. S. Idiot
at June 6, 2008 5:01 PM
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Dan Revill
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If I made two of the greatest films of all time (Lawrence and Kwaii), I could afford to be known as an asshole too.
I fell in love with Lawrence of Arabia the first time I laid eyes on it. Still the best movie ever made (in my not so humble opinion).
Posted by Dan Revill
at June 6, 2008 6:54 PM
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Edward
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What an awful way to wake up, hearing the Bobby was murdered. Seems like everything really went down hill for America after that horrible day.
Posted by Edward
at June 7, 2008 1:18 PM
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Edward
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ok, I'm an idiot. Multi-tasking is not working for me.
My appologies.
Posted by Edward
at June 7, 2008 1:54 PM
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