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Gene D. Phillips's "Beyong the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean" comes at a time of renewed interest in David Lean and his films, and puts perhaps the definitive stamp on this filmmaker's achievements. At last, Phillips offers the Lean devotees-and a broader audience-a remarkable book that places the cinematic achievemnts of David lean into proper perspective, balancing all the elements of a director whose directorial style and methods both attracted and repelled viewers and critics, some of whom still have not accorded Lean the high place he deserves among twentieth.

Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films .

Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean uses screenplays and production histories to assess LeanÕs body of work. Phillips also explores LeanÕs lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends (1949), HobsonÕs Choice (1954), and Summertime (1955). The result is an in-depth examination of the director in cultural, historical, and cinematic contexts

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This book is entitled The Life and Films of David Lean - however I would say 99% of the book is about the films and there is very little about Lean's life. And reading about the films was interesting but the interminable film summaries were tiring and even worse when a film was taken from a play and then you got the summary for both the play and the film.

Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean. Gene D. Phillips, . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2415-5. Father Phillips of Loyola University, brings a fascinating Jesuit perspective to Hitchcock who claimed that three years of studying with the Jesuits terrified him to death so that his subsequent life's work was to terrify others. Phillips's attention to Alfred Hitchcock Presents provides a very good guide through the television years, leaving one wishing he had focused the entire book on the subject and used the films only in reference to the TV refinements. Murphy, A. Mary (Spring 2001).

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Home Browse Books Book details, Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean. Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean. Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

791 Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-517) and index. Personal Name: Lean, David, 1908-1991.

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He also authored more than 22 decisive film history books including: "Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir," "Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola," "Stanley Kubrick: Interviews," and "Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean. Most recently, Phillips published "Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Films of Billy Wilder. His documentaries have appeared on both public and cable television.

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Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908–1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic storytelling and panoramic visions of history, but he started out as a talented film editor and director in Great Britain. As a result, he brought an art-house mentality to blockbuster films. Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean uses screenplays and production histories to assess Lean's body of work. Author Gene D. Phillips interviews actors who worked with Lean and directors who knew him, and their comments reveal new details about the director's life and career. Phillips also explores Lean's lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends (1949), Hobson's Choice (1954), and Summertime (1955). The result is an in-depth examination of the director in cultural, historical, and cinematic contexts. Lean's approach to filmmaking was far different than that of many of his contemporaries. He chose his films carefully and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a period of more than forty years. Those films, however, have become some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. Lean is best known for his epics, but Phillips also focuses on Lean's successful adaptations of famous works of literature, including retellings of plays such as Brief Encounter (1945) and novels such as Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), and A Passage to India (1984). From expansive studies of war and strife to some of literature's greatest high comedies and domestic dramas, Lean imbued all of his films with his unique creative vision. Few directors can match Lean's ability to combine narrative sweep and psychological detail, and Phillips goes beyond Lean's epics to reveal this unifying characteristic in the director's body of work. Beyond the Epic is a vital assessment of a great director's artistic process and his place in the film industry.

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Gene D. Phillips's "Beyong the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean" comes at a time of renewed interest in David Lean and his films, and puts perhaps the definitive stamp on this filmmaker's achievements. Though it often goes over the same ground as previous books have on Lean--especially the excellent biography by Kevin Brownlow (1996)--Phillips's book has assembled a mass of material from biographical, critical and other sources, including personal interviews with actors, colleagues and filmmakers who knew Lean, and has integrated these materials into an admirable whole, lucidly and painstaikingly evaluating the opus of Lean in its entirety. At last, Phillips offers the Lean devotees--and a broader audience--a remarkable book that places the cinematic achievemnts of David lean into proper perspective, balancing all the elements of a director whose directorial style and methods both attracted and repelled viewers and critics, some of whom still have not accorded Lean the high place he deserves among twentieth century filmmakers. Massive and minutely authenticated, tackling the knottiest problems head on, "Beyond the Epic" redresses critical lapses, and, without being maudlin or worshipful, presents an image of David Lean as, deservedly, one of the greatest narrative film directors of the twentieth century.

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This book is entitled The Life and Films of David Lean - however I would say 99% of the book is about the films and there is very little about Lean's life. The author did a good job of research and interviewed many, many people who worked with Lean which is great. And reading about the films was interesting but the interminable film summaries were tiring and even worse when a film was taken from a play and then you got the summary for both the play and the film. I would have liked to have learned more about Lean himself. He was married 6 times but you really never knew how he met each wife, what attracted him to them, how the relationship started and ended. I would have liked to have known what happened to his only son from his first marriage. The book is a good source for info on the films but not for info on the man.

Charyoll

A more than good introduction to the work of David Lean.

Thetath

This book was a gift to a young cinematographer. He very much enjoyed the book, and appreciated the gift. He recommends to anyone interested in making movies.

Kitaxe

Gene D. Phillips, a professor of film history and modern literature at Loyola University has written a riveting, informative and altogether compelling account of the great British film director David Lean's life and career. Admittedly not as all encompassing as Brownlow's enormous book, Phillips nevertheless adds a number of fascinating details in in regard to the creative process in the the making of Lean's classic films. The director's private life also gets attention, though nothing sensational or sleazy comes to the fore as this is a well researched work grounded in an objective study of a genius director's lifelong contribution to cinematic art. That is not to say that Phillips holds back on Mr. Lean's well known history of several divorces, testy confrontations with producers( most famously with Sam Spiegel) and an autocratic directorial style that some actors and crew members found trying at best. However, one has to look at the legacy this man left us: actor James Fox, who worked with Lean on his final film, "A Passage To India" was of the opinion that "David Lean was the finest film director (Britain) has produced". I think there are very few people who would argue with that assessment, although Michael Powell and Carol Reed likewise contributed immeasurably to British cinema in the 20th Century.

What I found fascinating in this account was the trouble Lean had in his later years , after the disappointing critical response to his 1970 Irish romantic epic "Ryan's Daughter"; his increasingly futile attempts to get funding and producer backing for a projected two part epic about the famous mutiny on the Bounty and its aftermath (to be called "The Lawbreakers' and "The Long Arm", respectively ; the resulting demise of that film project in the late 1970s and his return to directing after a ten year absence on "A Passage To India' (1984), where on- the- set tensions among cast and crew with the now aging, increasingly cantankerous director made an unpleasant experience for many. And finally the frustrating attempt to direct one more epic, a 44 million dollar version of Joseph Conrad's challenging, complex novel "Nostromo", a dream that went up in smoke when the film's producer and Warner Bros. backed out for myriad reasons, culminating further when Lean became seriously ill and it became obvious that he was in too fragile condition to helm the movie. Sadly Lean passed away around the time the aborted film was projected to start shooting.

This is a marvelous book on many levels. Author Phillips devotes many pages recounting the making of Lean's films ; his early career at Gaumont British Studios editing newsreels and "Quota Quickies"; graduating to editing feature films including Shaw's "Pygmalion" and "Major Babara"; contemporary wartime classics such as "The 49th Parallel" and "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing", his collaboration with Noel Coward on "In Which We Serve" and his breakthrough film scripted by Coward and directed by Lean himself, the masterful romance "Brief Encounter"; the two Dickens masterworks that confirmed Lean's reputation as a master craftsman, "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist". Lean's first foray into on location filming in Venice in glorious Technicolor for the Katherine Hepburn classic "Summertime. Then on to the increasingly more expensive, wide screen epics for which he is most famous for : "The Bridge on the River Kwai, "Lawrence Of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago". Each film is given extensive coverage from pre to post production, the trials and tribulations in getting these monumental films made and the premieres, critical receptions and the impact these films had in later years.

For anyone interested in British Cinema in the 20th Century and above all for any serious fan of David Lean and his work, this book is indispensable.

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