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Doctor Zhivago
Film Review June 19, 1995
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Admittedly, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winning epic has never melted my personal tundra, but it's definitely quite the spectacle as directed by the modern-day king of epics, David Lean. The...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: David Lean. Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay and Alec Guinness..."
The Constancy of Sorrow
Screens Story May 8, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Native Texan Kevin Reynolds taps loss of innocence, from Cold War Commies to The Count of Monte Cristo
"...His 1988 film, The Beast of War (aka The Beast), is a minor masterpiece of the form, a violently suspenseful psychological war movie that leaves viewers feeling as though they just watched some great, lost Samuel Fuller-David Lean collaboration. His 1994 film, Rapa Nui, takes place on an ancient Easter Island, presaging Mel Gibson's similarly themed Apocalypto by more than a decade, and Reynolds' last two films, a rollicking 2002 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and 2006's Tristan & Isolde (ill-cast but still unique in its take on the perennial star-crossed lovers), have been equally, eloquently grandiose in their conception if not, ultimately, their execution...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review February 22, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: What kind of tender tyrant hinges a love story on a suicide attempt?
"...Okay, two hiccups: Baxter's lending his apartment out to Sheldrake for their on-the-sly trysting. Legend goes, the story's first kernels came when Wilder watched David Lean's Brief Encounter, about two furtives affairing in train stations, the countryside, and some schnook's borrowed apartment..."
Atonement
Film Review December 14, 2007
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Joe Wright has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking from Ian McEwan’s novel: Starring Keira Knightley, the film is consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller. 
by Kimberley Jones
"...This first section is very nearly flawless filmmaking – art-directed within an inch of its life, as befits an overstuffed, overupholstered countryside manse, and sound-designed beautifully, from the delicate ping of a luxe bracelet fastening to the almost-violent clack of a Corona in motion. (The sound of a typewriter is also incorporated, to thrumming, thrilling effect, in Dario Marianelli's score – and what more appropriate audio cue for a work so consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller?) Wright, in only his second feature (following 2005’s Pride and Prejudice), has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking here in the tradition of fellow countrymen David Lean and Anthony Minghella (who cameos in the film’s final minutes)..."
Okey-Pokey
Arts Story September 28, 2007
"...The Bridge on the River Kwai (D: David Lean, 1957)..."
Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint
Film Review September 21, 2007
by Marrit Ingman
Description: This is an old-school heroic drama from Bhutan about an 11th century Tibetan saint whose tale begins with greed and vengeance.
by Marrit Ingman
"...For all its epic curlicues, the film cuts off at the real turning point in its hero’s journey. Perhaps it’s unreasonable to ask Bhutanese lamas celebrating ancient Tibetan spiritual culture to make their movies more classically structured – they are not David Lean – but it is my duty to inform you that the part where Thopaga embraces Buddhism and becomes the saint Milarepa is not in the film..."
Black Book
Film Review April 27, 2007
by Marrit Ingman
Description: Although in many ways a characteristically perverse Paul Verhoeven spectacle, this Dutch World War II resistance story is more morally shaded as well as handsomely mounted and suspenseful. 
by Marrit Ingman
"...The action set-pieces, double crosses, and narrow escapes are handsomely mounted and suspenseful as a Saturday matinee. In the production notes, Verhoeven cites David Lean as an influence, and the film has Lean’s epic scope and crackerjack timing, if not his mannerly refinement..."
Phases and Stages
Music Review April 14, 2006
by David Lynch
"...The trio melds Brahem's haunting oud virtuosity with impressionistic splashes of French cafe society, as in "Sur le Fleuve" and the title track. Melodic, graceful, and moving, Le Voyage de Sahar will linger in your mind's eye and ear like David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia..."
Food-o-File
Food Column April 7, 2006
by Virginia B. Wood
Description: Second that!
"...Start the day with an array of pastries, coffee drinks, and breakfast tacos, or drop in for lunch or dinner, during which the menu features sandwiches, salads, burgers, and a few hot plates served with beer and wine. In true Austin fashion, Jo's is also booking some live music.Event Menu :: April 6-13 Has the sweeping desert majesty of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ever made you curious about Bedouin cuisine? Check out Alamo Drafthouse chef John Bullington's menu customed to the classic film, a leisurely six-course Bedouin and Egyptian feast for $50..."
Cold Mountain
Film Review December 26, 2003
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Swoony kisses and true grit mark this Civil War epic from the director of The English Patient.
by Kimberley Jones
"...Kidman and Law have a powerful chemistry (dodgy accents aside), but rarely do they share the screen; their individual storylines are too epic to make much room for the intimacies and idiosyncrasies of romantic love. And Minghella’s film is epic with a capital E, a throwback to the time of David Lean, when a filmmaker knew how to fill a frame..."
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Film Review December 19, 2003
by Marc Savlov
Description: The saga ends (and ends) back in the Shire where it began.
by Marc Savlov
"...At 201 minutes (or some eight to 10 hours for all three films, depending on whether you’ve got the backside to handle Jackson’s monstrous, extended DVD director’s cuts), it’s about time. Before you toss me to the Orcs, fancy lads though they may be, understand that I agree that Jackson’s adaptations are indeed genius – no other epic since David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia has managed the kind of emotionally crunchy and just downright popcorn-pure exhilaration as The Lord of the Rings, flawlessly combining state-of-the-art effects with a streamlined (compared to the novels, anyway) storyline and some of the most engaging acting in a hobbit’s age – and for pure story payoff, they trump Star Wars, The Matrix, and all of the Andy Hardy films combined..."
Beyond Borders
Film Review October 24, 2003
by Marc Savlov
Description: Donate your dollars directly to starving children instead of this Jolie adventure.
by Marc Savlov
"...(Warchild.com would be an excellent place to start.) Of course, that’s in addition to the equally uncomfortable feeling that you’ve just blown two hours on an emotionally needy film that keeps reminding you how precious every moment of our short little lives are. Billed as an epic romance that spans both time and territory, Beyond Borders treads the same revolutionary wartime territory as David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, and sporadically manages to echo Lean’s penchant for sweeping cinematography (here courtesy of Phil Meheux) as it takes in the panoramic vistas of Thailand and Namibia (doubling for Cambodia and Ethiopia), but this love story between a man who can’t love and a woman who can’t help herself is so overwrought, and takes so much time to get going, that it feels as though it’s been knocked on the head by the sash weight of history and is stumbling about concussed and groggy..."
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Screens Story May 23, 2003
"...The Bridge on the River Kwai (D: David Lean, 1957): Sun, 6/1, 1:10, 4:20, & 7:30pm..."
Letters at 3AM
Columns January 10, 2003
by Michael Ventura
Description: Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.
"...Cinema, in 1962, saw David Lean's British-American Lawrence of Arabia, John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate and Birdman of Alcatraz, Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country, John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (U.S..."
Screens String
Screens Story January 3, 2003
"...Watch out, David Lean...."
Top 10s of 2002
Screens Story January 3, 2003
Description: The Austin Chronicle film reviewers offer their end-of-the-year lists and combine their individual lists to reach a group Top 10.
Riff on SIFF
Screens Story June 21, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Notes on the Seattle International Film Festival
"...Unlike Nanook of the North, the early Robert Flaherty documentary that is practically the only well-known movie in film history shot among the Inuit population, Fast Runner is both site-specific and universal. The charismatic lead actor and fellow cast members transmit a universal story about love, family rivalry, heroism, and myth that also provides a wealth of ethnographic detail and epic panoramic images that rival David Lean's deserts in Lawrence of Arabia...."
Discus Maximus
Screens Story December 7, 2001
by Will Robinson Sheff
"...This deluxe DVD presentation of David Lean's epic comes with all the "Special Edition" trimmings (running audio commentary, 10 vintage documentaries plus one new one, and interviews with Julie Christie and Omar Shariff), but, refreshingly, it's priced in the same range as a regular old DVD. Of the special features, the "vintage documentaries" -- all promotional, it turns out -- are nice, but the second disc's highlight is the new documentary, which goes into greater detail about how Lean's team reconstructed downtown Moscow in rural Spain and built the film's famous "Ice Palace" out of frozen beeswax in the middle of a sunny Iberian plain..."
Wintry Mix
Screens Story November 23, 2001
by Robert Faires
Video Reviews
Screens Review December 31, 1999
by Louis Black
"...This is combined with a sense of vision, a layering of action, and an attention to detail that imbues a comic-book action structure with a sense of reflection and an ideological eloquence. Related more to The Sea Hawk or Captain Blood than any political tract, cinematically, The Wind and the Lion owes much to the work of David Lean and Akira Kurosawa..."
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