Links

Links to further information and other sources

www.davidlean.com
Site dedicated to David Lean resources, includes filmography and credits, extracts from articles and interviews with Lean, on-line discussion room etc.

http://awards.fennec.org/l/lean_david.html#oscar
A list of the awards and nominations Lean and his films received in America, including Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Director's Guild Awards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/leand1.shtml
Audio link: Lean talking to Alan Haydock about how he sees his role as director, working on location, his background as an editor and the film making process, 1966 (5 min 55)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/
Check out the positioning of Lean's films in The British Film Institute's Top 100 film poll

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html
Find out which critics and directors voted for Lean in Sight and Sound's Top Ten Directors Poll

http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid=99
Read extracts from the BFI Classics Brief Encounter by Richard Dyer, available to buy online

http://home.clara.net/gw0hqd/brief/index.htm
Site dedicated to Carnforth Railway station, includes in-depth guide to locations used in Brief Encounter

http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,365685,00.html
Read what the Guardian's Derek Malcolm has to say about Brief Encounter

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/cteq/great.html
Although Lean isn't featured in Sense of Cinema's Critical Database of Directors, this site offers an interesting article by Boris Trbic on Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations

http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/brazzi/summer.htm
Pages dedicated to Summertime/Summer Madness, including credits, background and filming information, and the theme from the film in English and Italian

http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/paque941.htm
Ron Paquet explores different attempts to bring Lawrence of Arabia to the screen and discusses the original version of the screenplay drafted in the 1930s

http://www.filmsite.org/lawr.html
Commentary on Lawrence of Arabia by Tim Dirks, the site also has entries for Brief Encounter, and The Bridge on the River Kwai

http://www.oceans.com.au/oektsia.html
Kelly Tarlton is interviewed about his career as a diver and is questioned about working with Lean on Lost and Found: The Story of An Anchor

http://www.murphsplace.com/guinness/entry.html
Articles and pictures illustrating the career of Alec Guinness, site includes section entitled 'The Lean Films'

http://www.neoolympia.net/otoole/otoole.htm
Site dedicated to Peter O'Toole, links to materials, interviews and articles on the web

http://www.noelcoward.net/
Some pages are restricted access on this Noel Coward site, but there is a good chronology of the playwright's work

http://www.leninimports.com/jchristie_bio.html
This Julie Christie site has a section dedicated to Doctor Zhivago and includes credits, quotes from memorable scenes, and reviews

http://members.aol.com/khwebring/
Katharine Hepburn Webring, includes a biography and filmography, plus links to many other sites

Further Reading

Anderegg, Michael.A, David Lean (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984)

Brownlow, Kevin, David Lean: A biography (London: Faber and Faber, 1996)

Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha, Sam Spiegel: The Biography of a Hollywood Legend (London: Simon & Schuster, 2003)

Guinness, Alec, Blessings in Disguise (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985)

Lean, Sandra and Chattington, Barry, David Lean: An Intimate Portrait (London: Andre Deutsch: 2001)

Maxford, Howard, David Lean (London: Batsford, 2000)

Mills, John with Miller, John, Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please (London: Orion, 2001)

Morris, L. Robert and Raskin, Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia: the 30th Anniversary Pictorial History (New York: Doubleday, 1992)

Neame, Ronald with Cooper, Barbara, Ronald Neame: An autobiography, Straight From The Horse's Mouth (Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003)

O'Connor, Gary, Alec Guinness: Master of Disguise (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994)

Pettigrew, Terence, Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography (London: Peter Owen, 2001)

Pratley, Gerald, The Cinema of David Lean (New York; London: A.S.Barnes; Tantivy, 1974)

Silver, Alain and Ursini, James, David Lean and his Films (London: Leslie Frewin, 1974)

Silverman, Stephen.M, David Lean (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989)

Turner, Adrian, The Making of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (London: Dragon's World, 1994)

Turner, Adrian, Robert Bolt: Scenes From Two Lives (London : Hutchinson, 1998)