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David Lean

Honored with the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1990, Lean’s body of work (ranging from the intimate film to the grandiose epic) demonstrates an obsessive cultivation of craft and a fastidious concern with detail that has become the very definition of quality British cinema.

Adapted from Noel Coward’s one-act play, Lean takes a potentially boring story of middle-age flirtation and tenderly creates one of the most enduring and poignant romance films ever made. Brilliantly underplayed, two happily married strangers meet by chance in a railway station and fall desperately in love, but never physically express the undercurrent of passion that exists between them, even during their final gut wrenching separation – if your heart doesn’t ache, you’re just not human!

Demonstrating moments of intimacy through gigantic display, Lean sets up the greatness of Pip’s expectations with the magnitude of his frightful encounters; one with an escaped convict, whose emerge into the frame reminds us what it’s like to be a child in a world of oversized, menacing adults, and another with the meeting of mad Miss Havisham, in all her gothic splendor.

Peter O'Toole made an enigmatic and lasting impression in his debut role as British officer T.E. Lawrence, who helped Arab rebels fight the Turks in WWI, and Omar Sharif has perhaps the greatest cinematic intro of all time as he magically appears through the ghostly waves of the desert heat, achieving Lean’s compulsive drive to create the perfectly composed shot. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jose Ferrer, and Claude Rains round out this incredibly talented and magnetically charged cast.

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Terminator 3 news

By EdwardHavens

December 3rd, 2001

Ahnuld Is Bach!

Mister X drops word that Mario Kassar's Intermedia Productions will be announcing any day now that Schwarzenegger is signed for Terminator 3, and shooting on the $175M film will begin under the direction of Johnathon Mostow in May.


So what's this one going to be about? The script, which is currently being punched up by Mike Ferris from a story Ferris and Andy Vajna (Kassar's partner at Carolco when they produced T2), is under lock and key in Kassar's office.

There are 2 copies of the current script. Both are in a safe at Intermedia. Even the studios wanting a look at it have to send 1 rep and THEN the script is held by Intermedia security while it is read, so no copies can be made of it.

That is hardcore. Mister X has not seen the script personally, but tells us the person he has spoken with who has says there are two bad Terminators in this one, and one of them is indeed female. Now, if you remember back in June, there was talk that the female Terminator concept was potentially being thrown out the window. Mister X says the reason why... that machine is a copy of Sarah Connor, and since Intermedia can't get Linda Hamilton signed to do it, they're going to get a couple bad ass mofo's to go WWF on the T-800's ass.

While the film does not have distribution set yet, Intermedia has already let potential companies know the film will be released on the Fourth of July 2003.