Summertime, his gorgeous 1955 Technicolor trip to Venice with Katharine Hepburn, marked a turning point in his career: the sun-dappled location shoot was galvanizing for Lean, and the remainder of his films, from The Bridge on the River Kwai to A Passage to India, could be considered outdoor spectacles. A Victorian woman contemplating adultery is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of her potential lover and his unstable wife, who claims to be. Attracted right into the mystery surrounding Kerrie, a trainee that died following a seance summoning the epic Fairfield Ghost, Camille befriends Kerries society. All are graced by evocative, shadowy black-and-white cinematography and elegantly restrained compositions. Seance Camille is the brand-new woman at the prestigious Fairfield Academy for Girls. In the forties and early fifties, having moved to directing, he made several luminous films, including adaptations of such classic and important contemporary works from the stage and page as Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit and Still Life ( Brief Encounter, in the film version), and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the demon out of their friend before it destroys them all. Among those are pictures that he was responsible for editing, early on in his work in film: some of his national cinema’s greatest hits, including Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s Pygmalion, Gabriel Pascal’s Major Barbara, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 49th Parallel. After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves. After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. They learn they will have to get rid of the demon before it consumes. But the long and eclectic career of this legendary British director encompasses arresting intimacy as well, as evidenced by the films of his in the Criterion Collection. Four friends accidentally summon a demon while filming a sance.
For many cinephiles, the name David Lean signifies grand moviemaking-sweeping epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
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