Smokey
01-13-2012, 03:16 PM
David Lean is British director and he got pretty good resume in that department. I have seen all of his movies except the real early ones in his career. Oliver Twist, Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai rank pretty high on my list, so it is a tough choice to choose one. So will go with Lawrence of Arabia as his best work.
Ranked by released date:
Brief Encounter (1945): set in British suburban life, this movie center on a housewife for whom real love brings unexpectedly violent emotions.
http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Brief-1.jpg
Great Expectations (1946): A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
http://www.organicmechanic.org/scratch/ge1.jpg
Oliver Twist (1948) Based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Accompanied by Alec Guinness's most memorable performance as F*a*gin
http://www.movieforum.com/people/actors/alecguinness/images/olivertwist.jpg
Hobson's Choice (1954): Charles Laughton star as Henry Hobson who runs a successful bootmaker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uiWlOtEjWhI/SqHVf0J8W1I/AAAAAAAAHAM/n1KbI-8zBkI/s400/HobsonsChoice5.jpg
Summertime (1955 film): A lonely American woman (Katharine Hepburn) unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
http://www.thefifiorganization.net/wp-content/janus/images/summer_jane01.jpg
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): After winning a battle of wits with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
http://prodeoetpatria.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bridge-on-the-river-kwai-1957-3.jpg
Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert after help uniting Arab tribes against Ottoma empire.
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lawrenceofarabia3.jpg
Doctor Zhivago (1965): Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.
http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2008/05/lg_dr_zhivago_sharif.jpg
Ryan's Daughter (1970): The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. With Robert Mitchum.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3427/3891950901_619aa7dcab.jpg
A Passage to India (1984): Tensions between Indians and the colonial British come to a boil when a white female tourist accuses a young Indian doctor of rape during a visit to some caverns.
http://thebestpictureproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/passagetoindia2.jpg
Ranked by released date:
Brief Encounter (1945): set in British suburban life, this movie center on a housewife for whom real love brings unexpectedly violent emotions.
http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Brief-1.jpg
Great Expectations (1946): A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
http://www.organicmechanic.org/scratch/ge1.jpg
Oliver Twist (1948) Based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Accompanied by Alec Guinness's most memorable performance as F*a*gin
http://www.movieforum.com/people/actors/alecguinness/images/olivertwist.jpg
Hobson's Choice (1954): Charles Laughton star as Henry Hobson who runs a successful bootmaker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uiWlOtEjWhI/SqHVf0J8W1I/AAAAAAAAHAM/n1KbI-8zBkI/s400/HobsonsChoice5.jpg
Summertime (1955 film): A lonely American woman (Katharine Hepburn) unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
http://www.thefifiorganization.net/wp-content/janus/images/summer_jane01.jpg
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): After winning a battle of wits with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
http://prodeoetpatria.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bridge-on-the-river-kwai-1957-3.jpg
Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert after help uniting Arab tribes against Ottoma empire.
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lawrenceofarabia3.jpg
Doctor Zhivago (1965): Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.
http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2008/05/lg_dr_zhivago_sharif.jpg
Ryan's Daughter (1970): The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. With Robert Mitchum.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3427/3891950901_619aa7dcab.jpg
A Passage to India (1984): Tensions between Indians and the colonial British come to a boil when a white female tourist accuses a young Indian doctor of rape during a visit to some caverns.
http://thebestpictureproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/passagetoindia2.jpg