David Lean Returns To Cannes In ‘Maverick’ Documentary, Exploring How Director Overcame Father’s Scorn To Become One Of Cinema’s Greatest

David Lean could shoot a landscape like no one else – in India, in Ceylon, in Jordan – filling the screen with stunning imagery. “I like spectacle,” he once told an interviewer. But he could also capture the landscape of the human face: Peter O’Toole’s crystal blue eyes against an azure sky; the dark eyes […]

By Matthew Carey