David Lean A Life in Film (The South Bank Show)
David Lean has the reputation as one of the world's great directors won by such films as DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. After RYAN'S DAUGHTER (1970), he didn't make a film for 14 years. Now at age 76, he returns to the screen with PASSAGE TO INDIA (1985). This documentary traces the making of the film.
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Behind the Screen
Get inside the movies with these illuminating insights from the people who make them.
The movies can make us believe in magic, but what they really serve up is illusion: pull back the curtain and what's revealed is a vast enterprise of imagination, skill and invention. When it comes to feature films, a director may preside over a legion of hundreds of actors, artists and technicians.
To outsiders - that's most of us - this complex world can seem mystifying and impenetrable. So an insider's perspective is worth its weight in gold, as these rare interviews and talks by filmmakers and performers show.
19 videos in this collection
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The Set of Far from the Madding Crowd
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Robin Williams (Kelly)
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Clapperboard [24/11/80]
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The Guardian Interview: Ralph Fiennes
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MOMI Indian Cinema Interviews
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Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
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Ben Kingsley and Buzz Goodbody
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Georges Melies
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Clive Donner
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Mike Leigh and Les Blair
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Jill Craigie / Rosamond Lehmann
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Clapperboard North West [16/11/79]
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David Lean A Life in Film
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MOMI Presentation by Terry Gilliam
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The Electric Paradise
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War, Peace and Pictures: The Films of Kay Mander
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Anthony Daniels (Kelly)
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