The Best. You can not make a better film than Lean's top 5. Masterpieces.

David Lean is the greatest movie maker with movies like Dr.Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia.

A "complete dud" at school. Went on to become one of the worlds greatest filmmakers. There's hope for us all! Thank you for uploading this wonderful film.

There's a sublime elegance to his films...love all his films though my very favourites remain Lawrence of Arabia and Passage to India.

This documentary film is a kind of version of the storytelling technique of Citizen Kane. Perfectly crafted, with three documentaries interwoven, cutting back and forth with absolute mastery. This doc is almost as well edited as Lean's films.

David Lean was a supremely gifted film maker who has left behind a whole series of masterworks.

The best director that ever lived his films are all epics

Timeless classics , that would probably be just as successful if they were released today.

He is still one of the all time great filmmakers .There is no one like him .A perfectionist and a professional who never compromised with the script and quality of filmmaking . This is why his movies still standout and are now textbooks for the current and upcoming filmmakers.

What a treat, man. I have never seen a director at work till now.

Have to confess: as much as I love David Lean's work, to have left out any discussion of Lawrence of Arabia is disappointing. It was for me a life changing experience. Afterwards I ended up majoring in Geography and Middle East Studies. I went to the Middle East with the map from his book, travelling from Aleppo to Wadi Musa, Damascus to Baghdad. And to the Lawrence Collection in the Huntington Museum. I walked the streets of Reading, England and over the heath to Cloud's Hill and even Patrick Knowles cottage.

What an absolutely gorgeous voice he had!

David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and several others.

2:00:34 One of the reasons I became an editor was that I was so inspired by this sequence when rebroadcast on A&E channel. The other was having seen Lawrence of Arabia a few months earlier.

Wonderful to watch a master at work. He had vision and a drive most director's are lacking these days and he wasn't scared of actors egos. He was a hard task master but the work speaks for itself. Lawrence Of Arabia is a real genuine work of Art that was ever put to celluloid. Thank you Mr Lean RIP.

Greatest ever film maker

In almost all David Lean's films you will find a train and Alec Guiness

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Great to see one of Alec Guinness's rare interviews and hear his thoughts on Lean.

Thank you so very much for uploading this utterly brilliant biopic FunFillums. It is greatly appreciated.

Bridge On The River Kwai and Lawrence Of Arabia are two of my favourite David Lean films.

Everyone should see this.

This is wonderful watching this legendary director.

I have seen this documentary so many times and He is one my favorite filmmakers of all time and he is one the reason I got into film and this shows me that I can make in the film busses one the best in history thanks for posting this

Thanks so much for posting this. I remember seeing a shorter version of this and appreciate seeing the complete movie.

My favourite of all and nobody has surpassed him!

Great man

Wow! This certainly gave me insight as to the technique of this remarkable craftsman. Many thanks for sharing this!

Thank you very much magnificent 👌

Hobson's Choice is available on KZfaq. One of the most delightful films I've ever seen.

That scene in which the barbed thorns of briars are used to frame the internal pains of Oliver's doomed pregnant mother in the moonlight is so simple and yet so effective...

Excellent doc. Thank you.

Excellent!

I know he made better films, but for pure pleasure I love Dr Zhivago.

A Passage to India, Lean's piece de resistance. Showed all those Round Table naysayers. I hope they are suitably humbled.

Yes, “the content is excellent. “ Thank you very much

The scenes of the filming of 'A Passage to India' are almost shocking. I admire any actor (or crew member) who can put themselves thru that & come out the other side with their artistry, passion & confidence intact. There's a kind of brutality to the way Lean makes everything & everyone--including himself--submit to the demands of his vision. Almost more astonishing than his method is the fact that what he captures on screen is so beautiful you can't imagine it has its origins in something so seemingly ugly & mechanical. Although it's also possible he was even more prone to that kind of obsessiveness on 'A Passage To India' because of the rubbishing he'd been dealt re 'Ryan's Daughter'. But it sounds from the interview with Ronald Neame & others that it's been Lean's m/o from the start. I absolutely love 'Brief Encounter' & 'Lawrence of Arabia'', but I wonder if I'll ever be able to see them in the same way, now that I 'know how the sausages are made'. Anyway...extraordinary documentary, warts & all.

The criticism of RD that it was 'a small story pumped up' is ridiculous. Lean should have fended that one off more robustly.

Great expectations is his greatest work.

David Lean has some epic films and was a brilliant director. I'm currently watching "Madeline" a very atmospheric Victorian mystery.

Anthony Newley as a 13 year old, rough around the edges, Artful Dodger in David Lean's Oliver Twist.

Is this narrated by Melvyn Bragg? It sounds like his voice, very distinctive.

00:19:05 "... And the classic Brief Encounter (1945) which won him the first Oscar nomination for any British director." Unless they are referring for a British made film we must remember that Hitchcock was nominated in 1941 for Rebecca.

I love the (probably unintended) self-reference at 57:40 :-).

Wish critics would be banned from making negative and damming remarks. Constructive overviews or questions about how or why should be the only focus in an effort to gain an understanding. Why damage an artist's reputation & confidence just to exhibit the critic's own egotistical viewpoint?

Pure unadulterated genius

A cinematic genius, n the critics murdered his creative spirit. Think what great movies he would have made in those 14 years. Shame.

Oh THANKS mate! My VHS tape broke down 15 years ago! I saw the darn thing about 5 times back in the 90s :).

David Lean,John Ford,Akira Kurosawa Must see their Films Mozart of the movie!

Excellent bloodlines ❤

David Lean, British filmmaker, one of the greatest movie directing in the 20th centuries, which he has made many great movies. (Including Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.) A question is what the school David Lean went, before he became a movie director.

Alec Guinness was totally incorrect about inserting comedy into his role because his character was essentially a deeply tragic figure. Why did he not get that? As to his comments regarding Charles Laughton, Sir Alec clearly didn't get the joke: can anyone seriously imagine Laughton's generous proportions in the context of a Japanese prisoner of war camp? C'mon.

er war sicherlich eine extreme significant kraft in meinen teeny jahren. danke herr lean, mögen sie ruhen in frieden. ich werde nie vergessen, sonntags, 1 mark von der omma, 15uhr, und dann O Toole, seine blauen augen auf der leinwand, closeup, ca 5x20m und die musick von Jarre, ein mentaler orgasmus, obwohl damals wusste ich nicht was das ist. ich war in LA, als sie ca 1985 die verbesserte version im ABC Entertainment Center, Century City brachten, = 3 Kinos, jedes ca 800 sitze, 8 mon, 2 bis 3 vorstellungen pro tag, AUSVERKAUFT.

Was the choice of Alec Guinness a good one as Professor Narayan Godbole ? ... I wonder, because it reminds me too much Peter Sellers in " The party " !! ;-)))

Tradução de comentário crítico sobre David Lean, escrito por David Thomson: magiadoreal.blogspot.com/2020/12/o-dicionario-biografico-de-cinema57-sir.html

This documentary is as epic as a David Lean movie but unfortunately not as good looking.

All film critics are aspiring but failed directors: film criticism is not even a real job. They were so vile to Lean about Ryan’s Daughter because they felt he was at a vulnerable stage in his career and so decided to rip him to shreds. Those fucking bastards. The only response that matters is the public one.

Great filmmaker. Terrible, toxic person by all accounts. I'm not being a troll. Practically everyone who's worked on a set run by David Lean has delivered a scathing account of the man, calling him a bully, a lout, and just, in general, an unpleasant person to be around.

2:12:17 Just because Ryan's Daughter has a woman's emotional life as its focus does not mean its third rate 'romance novel' material as Spielberg suggests. We've been battling against this bullshit perception in movies for decades, the idea of great cinema being the story of men in action packed landscapes (where women function as nothing more than 'the sexy girlfriend') and women's films being deemed of lower quality and disparaged as 'chick flicks' which can't possibly be taken seriously. James Cameron's Titanic subverted this brilliantly because it managed to be not only an action packed spectacle but, like Ryan's Daughter, was focused on the emotional life of a woman. So Spielberg can take his smug, condescending assessment and shove it: it's not for nothing that his movies feature no interesting female characters, he doesn't understand or even like them and his lack of insight into an essential part of the human condition makes him a lesser artist.

A few days ago, I've seen another version of this $2 flim-flam... Who is copying whom?

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Alec really should have kept his mouth shut on KWAI! LEAN made Alec a star and gave him his career! ALEC isnt directing this movie! DAVID is.. so causing problems on the film like that and going against Davids directing really is not called for! and Alec should have known better!!! down right Rude really...

Very boring. Poor quality upload.