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Re: David Lean Movie Restorations
Thank you for posting this good news.
I hope the restorations of David Lean's films will get a release in the USA, too. There is a market here for the maestro's work. I wasn't born yet when most of his films were new. My parents dragged me in to see Dr. Zhivago when I was too little to understand it, but it left an impression. Later on I saw Ryan's Daughter and Passage to India on my own. I saw revivals of Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge On the River Kwai, and Dr. Zhivago. By that time I knew I was watching one of the medium's great artists. But I've only seen his earlier films on video. I'll pay to see each restoration at least once, and some of them I'd pay to see more than once. Younger audiences will be surprised at how easily they'll be drawn in and their attention held.
When the remake of The Bounty was released in 1983 I shook my head in disappointment watching it. David Lean devoted over a decade of his life to this film. It would have been one of the great achievements in cinema if he had been allowed to make it. Certainly there was an audience for David Lean. Instead, the heart and soul of the story were gutted out of it. The new director had no feeling for it and the lensmanship was mediocrity at best.
"... little by little the look of the country
changes because of the people we admire."
dialog in HUD (1963)
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