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| ORDERED CHAOS: Lean (on crane) is the calm in the center of the desert storm as he orchestrates a cast of thousands and a few dozen camels on the set of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). - photo © 1962, Renewed 1990 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
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| ON THE BEACH: Lean demonstrates how he wants Sarah Miles to walk with her parasol in a scene from Ryan’s Daughter (1970), filmed on the Dingle Peninsula in western Ireland. - photo courtesy British Film Institute. |
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| LIGHTS! ACTION!: The setup for an intimate scene in The Happy Breed (1944), Lean’s second film, based on a play by Noel Coward about life in Britain between the wars. The director is seated at the right.- photo by Photofest. |
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ON SCHEDULE: Lean seems pleased with Julie Christie’s performance as she emerges from a trolley during the filming of Doctor Zhivago (1965). The film was shot in Finland and Spain, filling in for pre-revolution Russia. - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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| TUNDRA TAKE: From the crane, the director leads a battalion of Russian soldiers in the middle of nowhere in a typical Lean composition from Doctor Zhivago. - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
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THE POINT IS: Sir David explaining exactly what he wants to Dame Peggy Ashcroft (left) and Judy Davis in a crowd scene from A Passage to India (1984), filmed on location in India and at Shepperton Studios in England.
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| CIAO, KATERINA: Lean and Katharine Hepburn go over her pages before a take on Summertime, filmed on location in Venice (1955). The picture was Lean’s first filmed on an exotic foreign site. - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
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| MARCHING ORDERS: Lean prepares a long tracking shot in the desert on Lawrence of Arabia. Almost all movement in the film goes from left to right because he wanted to emphasize that the story was a journey.- photo © 1962, Renewed 1990 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
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MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN: Shooting in the heat of the Sri Lankan jungle, Lean (on box) directs a rag-tag band of POWs during World War II in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). - photo courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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| EYE TO EYE: The director made six films with Alec Guinness, here as the dogmatic Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film was another one of Lean’s intimate character studies told in epic proportions. - photo © 1957, Renewed 1985 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
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TOP OF THE WORLD: Lean (far left) and crew members survey the scene from atop the dome of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, overlooking St. Mark’s Square, during the filming of Summertime.- photo © 1962, Renewed 1990 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
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