The blog Film (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The director of Before the Rains explains the joys and difficulties of staying true to both a British and an Indian cinematic heritage
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Heartbreak apparently sells at the box office, as west London's Bush Theatre has discovered this week. The Fringe powerhouse has reported unprecedented demand for its latest show, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, a collection of short new break-up ...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Film News: Jose Luis Borau to also receive tribute -- The Seville European Film Festival will screen tributes to David Lean and Spanish director-producer Jose Luis Borau, plus a Focus Europe panorama of recent films from Denmark.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
M.R. Shahjahan weaves an Indian theme for the U.S. audience
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
He's not lying. In its current state (before the inevitable rewrites), Matthew Sand's screenplay adaptation of Christian Gossett's celebrated graphic novel manages to land somewhere in that vast expanse that separates George Lucas's popular space saga from David Lean's beautiful-'n-bloated recreation of the Bolshevik Revolution. A lot of things do, really. STARSHIP TROOPERS for example. 300 even. In...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
M.R. Shahjahan weaves an Indian theme for the American audience
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
By Vadim Rizov [ The Key screens this afternoon and evening as part of The Film Society of Lincoln Center's William Holden retrospective. Click here for screening details. ] When Film Forum recently announced an upcoming David Lean retrospective, I had two reactions: excitement, but also puzzlement that I've seen more Carol Reed films in rep since I arrived in New York four years ago than any Lean...
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis on Friday won A$140,000 ($135,230) plus costs in a defamation suit against local media company News Ltd, controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Judy Davis was awarded $134,000 in damages Friday from a newspaper that ridiculed her as heartless for opposing a plan to erect floodlights in a park near the actress' harborside home in Sydney.
Positive Liberty (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Mongol probably isn’t coming to a theater near you or, if it is or already has, it probably isn’t the sort of movie you’re likely to go see unless you’re already the sort of art house film buff who eschews Hollywood flicks and regularly uses words like “eschew.” But Constant Viewer saw it yesterday and, as [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Film News: Event to run July 2 -15 -- Gotham’s Film Society of Lincoln Center presents “William Holden, A Different Kind of Hero,” at the Walter Reade Theater from July 2-15.
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Gotham’s Film Society of Lincoln Center presents “William Holden, A Different Kind of Hero,” at the Walter Reade Theater from July 2-15. Twenty of the actors films will screen, including the 1973 Clint Eastwood-helmed “Breezy”; David Lean’s “The Bridge on the River Kwai”; 1939’s “Golden Boy,” Holden’s screen debut; Sidney Lumet’s “Network”; “Stalag 17,” for which [...]
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Carolyn Williams Not sure if my hard training session yesterday, pushing hard against gusts of wind, whipping up the Gower sand. A scene not unlike those seen in Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel Laurence of Arabia. Except in Lawrence of Arabia you had Real Heat was less painful than the slanging...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Carolyn Williams Choices Not sure if my hard training session yesterday, pushing hard against gusts of wind, whipping up the Gower sand. A scene not unlike those seen in Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel Laurence of Arabia.(except in Lawrence of Arabia you had Real heat was any less painful...
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
David Lean's film Passionate Friends is an unknown- comparatively- gem. It stands comparison with some of the director's best work- both for being a subtle character study and for the brilliant displays of acting contained within it. Passionate Friends contains the simplest of simple stories. A woman, Mary, is in love with her friend Stephen, who is likewise in love with her, and yet she decides, for...
