Wexner Center for the Arts: Film/Video

Retrospective: David Lean

Whether confined to a studio sound stage or leading a production team through a tropical jungle or barren desert, David Lean has created some of the most breath-taking and brilliantly composed images ever committed to celluloid. One of the most accomplished and revered of British filmmakers, Lean is most often identified with Oscar-winning, grand-scale spectacles. To honor the centenary of Lean’s birth, we’ll screen new restorations of eight of his British films from the 1940s and 1950s, along with three later favorites.

Oliver Twist

(David Lean, 1948)

Blithe Spirit

(David Lean, 1945)

// Double Feature

Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | 7:00PM
Film/Video Theater

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See how Lean takes on adaptations of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward in newly restored prints.

Dickens’s dark vision of Victorian London has never looked better than in Lean’s adaptation of Oliver Twist. With Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, and Alec Guinness in his controversial portrayal of Fagin, his second major role. (115 mins., 35mm)

A rare comedy by Lean, Blithe Spirit stars Rex Harrison as a cynical novelist whose current marriage is disrupted by the ghost of his first wife, visible only to him. Noël Coward wrote the script from his own 1941 play. (95 mins., 35mm)

Blithe Spirit begins at 9:05 PM.

Blithe Spirit Trailer: