Showing posts with label lawrence of arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawrence of arabia. Show all posts

Friday, 17 September 2010

It wasn’t all a bed of roses between David Lean and his most famous fan Steven Spielberg


It wasn’t all a bed of roses between David Lean and his most famous fan. Chris Evans of The Independent wrote an article in 2008 entitled: “How Sir David Lean had an epic falling out with Steven Spielberg over the filming of a Conrad novel”. [More]

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Lawrence of Arabia: The film that inspired Spielberg

Steven Spielberg’s favourite film is David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. When the film was first released in 1962 Spielberg went to see it at a small theatre in Phoenix, Arizona where he immediately fell in love with the epic tale of T.E. Lawrence. However, as the director explains, he wasn’t aware of the enormity of the film’s influence on him until much later. [More]