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In David Lean’s ‘Summertime’ Only the Dreaming Is Easy

In David Lean’s ‘Summertime’ Only the Dreaming Is Easy

David Lean’s Summertime emerged as Hollywood was negotiating how adultery could be handled. The tawdry subject became the province of only the classiest actors.

Old British Films, Boring? Pshaw!

Old British Films, Boring? Pshaw!

The passage of time tends to make old films more interesting, such as these seven films of the late '40s and '50s from British directors John Boulting, Carol Reed, David Lean, Anthony Kimmins, Charles Frend, Guy Hamilton, and Leslie Norman.

Exploring the Morality of Romance within ‘Brief Encounter’, 60 Years On

Victims of the Machine Inhabit ‘A Passage to India’

Charles Dickens 200: Great Expectations: Bright Hope and Dark Resignation

If You Believe That Bigger Is Better and Biggest Is Best, Then ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Is For You

Essential Art House: Brief Encounter

Hobson’s Choice (Criterion Collection)

Cinema Qua Non – Indispensable DVDs: Part 1

A Passage To India

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)