{"id":568,"date":"2008-10-29T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/classic-and-rare-david-lean-films-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:47:00","slug":"classic-and-rare-david-lean-films-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/classic-and-rare-david-lean-films-on-the-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Classic (and rare) David Lean films on the way."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SQi7fskMpII\/AAAAAAAAB_0\/OBUBcEgHfKs\/s1600-h\/davidlean-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 125px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SQi7fskMpII\/AAAAAAAAB_0\/OBUBcEgHfKs\/s400\/davidlean-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">It\u2019s not up at <a href=\"http:\/\/cinematheque.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">their website<\/a> yet, but recently I got a press release from the Pacific Cinematheque announcing that 10 of the 16 feature films directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/newsbites-legion-hereafter-w-lean-trek.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Lean<\/a> will be coming to that theatre next month \u2014 including three films that I have long wanted to see but, as near as I can tell, are unavailable on DVD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the list, with the dates the films are screening and links to any earlier comments, however peripheral, that I may have written on the films I have already seen:<\/p>\n<ol type=\"disc\">\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/flashback-sir-richard-attenborough-grey.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In Which We Serve<\/a><\/i> (1942) \u2014 Nov 20,24<\/li>\n<li><i>This Happy Breed<\/i> (1944) \u2014 Nov 20,23<\/li>\n<li><i>Blithe Spirit<\/i> (1945) \u2014 Nov 7,9<\/li>\n<li><i>Brief Encounter<\/i> (1945) \u2014 Nov 7-8<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/its-lean-its-dickens-its-superman.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Great Expectations<\/a><\/i> (1946) \u2014 Nov 14,16<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/its-lean-its-dickens-its-superman.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oliver Twist<\/a><\/i> (1948) \u2014 Nov 14-15<\/li>\n<li><i>The Passionate Friends<\/i> (1949) \u2014 Nov 8-9<\/li>\n<li><i>Madeleine<\/i> (1950) \u2014 Nov 15-16<\/li>\n<li><i>The Sound Barrier<\/i> (1952) \u2014 Nov 24,26<\/li>\n<li><i>Hobson\u2019s Choice<\/i> (1954) \u2014 Nov 23,26<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Just for completeness\u2019 sake, here are the six films Lean directed that are <i>not<\/i> playing as part of this series:<\/p>\n<ol type=\"disc\">\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/david-leans-transitional-movie.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Summertime<\/a><\/i> (1955)<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/onfilm\/message\/3250\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/a><\/i> (1957) \u2014 Nov 21<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/rosenbaum-on-directors-cuts.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lawrence of Arabia<\/a><\/i> (1962) \u2014 Nov 22-23<\/li>\n<li><i>Doctor Zhivago<\/i> (1965)<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/david-leans-big-disappointment.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ryan\u2019s Daughter<\/a><\/i> (1970)<\/li>\n<li><i>A Passage to India<\/i> (1984) \u2014 Nov 27<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The picture of Lean above, by the way, comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lean\/material.php?theme=1&amp;type=Photograph&amp;title=sound_barrier\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this collection<\/a> of publicity stills for <i>The Sound Barrier<\/i>, one of the three films I have not yet seen, at the British Film Institute.<\/p>\n<p>NOV 9 UPDATE:  The Cinematheque website now has a page for the series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematheque.bc.ca\/passionate-encounters-david-lean-ten-british-classics\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.  They are also showing three of Lean\u2019s later epics as a \u201csupersized sidebar\u201d to the main series; I have added the dates for those films above, and you can check for showtimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematheque.bc.ca\/supersized-sidebar-best-epic-david-lean\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not up at their website yet, but recently I got a press release from the Pacific Cinematheque announcing that 10 of the 16 feature films directed by David Lean will be coming to that theatre next month \u2014 including three films that I have long wanted to see but, as near as I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Classic (and rare) David Lean films on the way.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s not up at their website yet, but recently I got a press release from the Pacific Cinematheque announcing that 10 of the 16 feature films directed by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/classic-and-rare-david-lean-films-on-the-way.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Classic (and rare) David Lean films on the way.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#039;s not up at their website yet, but recently I got a press release from the Pacific Cinematheque announcing that 10 of the 16 feature films directed by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/classic-and-rare-david-lean-films-on-the-way.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-10-29T11:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SQi7fskMpII\/AAAAAAAAB_0\/OBUBcEgHfKs\/s400\/davidlean-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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