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Sir David Lean was a complete filmmaker--editor, screenwriter,
producer, and exemplary director--whose skills were honed on British
soundstages and in documentary film shoots. Following his first
directorial assignments on a series of features scripted by Noel
Coward, Lean gravitated toward literary classics, setting his
sights on Dickens, T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and Joseph Conrad,
whose Nostromo was the director's final, unfilmed project. Lawrence
of Arabia exemplifies Lean's reputation for unsurpassed epics,
projects that matched their visual sweep and daunting scale with
equally big themes and finely detailed performances. Yet the director
also crafted an enduring and influential character duet in the
bittersweet Brief Encounter, and excelled at capturing great actors
in deft ensemble scenes.
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