David Lean

David Lean''s extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another.

Lean''s musical motifs are known worldwide: Lara''s theme in Zhivago; the Colonel Bogey March in Kwai; Estella''s mot...