![]() ![]() ![]() His final film, A Passage to India (1984), was hailed as the work of an old master, and when he died aged 83 in 1991, he was about to begin filming Nostromo. ![]() He received a knighthood, an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, and the public admiration of Spielberg and Scorsese. Yet he lived long enough to enjoy renewed acclaim. The critical and box-office failure of Ryan’s Daughter (1970), which was judged to be completely out of touch with the new spirit of cinema and seemed a celluloid dinosaur, led to a 15-year hiatus in his career. Lean was often a victim of fluctuations in audience taste, especially American. 2 But arguably it is true of Lean’s next film, the 1948 Oliver Twist. This may not be true for the numerous television adaptations of Dickens, good as some of them have been, 1 nor for David Lean’s 1946 Great Expectations in spite of the classic status it has taken on among literati. Sometimes the film is better than the book. ![]()
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