Editing David Lean (section)

==Legacy==
[[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Martin Scorsese]] in particular are fans of Lean's epic films and claim him as one of their primary influences. Spielberg and Scorsese also helped in the 1989 restoration of ''Lawrence of Arabia'', which had been substantially altered both by the studio in theatrical release and in particular in its televised versions; the theatrical re-release greatly revived Lean's reputation.

Several of the many other later directors who have acknowledged significant influence by Lean include [[Stanley Kubrick]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/stanley-kubrick-cinephile|title=Stanley Kubrick, cinephile|website=British Film Institute|language=en|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811211311/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/stanley-kubrick-cinephile|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Francis Ford Coppola]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sragow |first1=Michael |title=David Lean's Right of 'Passage' |journal=Film Comment |date=1985 |volume=21 |issue=1 |page=21 |jstor=43453017 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/43453017 |access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref> [[George Lucas]],<ref name="The epic legacy of David Lean">{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Andrew |title=The epic legacy of David Lean |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/04/features |access-date=19 July 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=4 May 2008}}</ref> [[Spike Lee]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/spike-lee-12-cultural-influences.html|title=Spike Lee on Malcolm X, Rashomon, and 8 Other Things That Have Influenced His Work|website=Vulture|date=12 February 2015 |language=en-us|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=11 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211215454/https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/spike-lee-12-cultural-influences.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Sergio Leone]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/film/article/good_bad_ugly-sergio_leone|title=The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Sergio Leone|website=exclaim.ca|language=en-ca|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920175712/http://exclaim.ca/film/article/good_bad_ugly-sergio_leone|url-status=live}}</ref> [[John Boorman|Sir John Boorman]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Richard |title=Culture that made me: John Boorman on his influences through the decades |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30997575.html |access-date=31 May 2022 |work=Irish Examiner |date=4 May 2020 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531114503/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30997575.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Paul Thomas Anderson]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Olsen |first1=Mark |title=Paul Thomas Anderson and collaborators unravel the mysteries of 'Phantom Thread' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-20171221-story.html |access-date=31 May 2022 |newspaper=LA Times |date=21 December 2017 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531114503/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-20171221-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Lawrence Kasdan]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Private Screenings: Insiders Share a Century of Great Movie Moments|author-link=Lawrence Kasdan|last=Kasdan|first=Lawrence|publisher=The American Film Institute|year=1995|isbn=1-57036-151-7|pages=91–93}}</ref> and [[Guillermo del Toro]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=del Toro |first1=Guillermo |title=Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/10/guillermo-del-toro-the-books-tv-film-and-music-that-brought-me-to-crimson-peak |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=10 October 2015 |archive-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601164532/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/10/guillermo-del-toro-the-books-tv-film-and-music-that-brought-me-to-crimson-peak |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[John Woo]] once named ''Lawrence of Arabia'' among his top three films.<ref>Perce Nev, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/callingtheshots/john_woo.shtml BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129231922/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/callingtheshots/john_woo.shtml |date=29 January 2020 }}. Retrieved 17 May 2007</ref> More recently, [[Joe Wright]] (''[[Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|Pride & Prejudice]]'', ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]'') has cited Lean's works, particularly ''Doctor Zhivago'', as an important influence on his work,<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4066844.ece ''Times Online'' report] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616123033/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4066844.ece |date=16 June 2011 }}</ref> as has director [[Christopher Nolan]] (''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2012/07/31/christopher-nolan-reveals-five-films-that-influenced-the-dark-knight-rises/|title=Christopher Nolan Reveals Five Films That Influenced 'The Dark Knight Rises'|last=Baldock|first=Luke Ryan|date=31 July 2012|website=THN – The Hollywood News|language=en-GB|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=21 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921040244/http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2012/07/31/christopher-nolan-reveals-five-films-that-influenced-the-dark-knight-rises/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The critical verdict was not unanimous, however. For example, David Thomson, writing about Lean in his ''New Biographical Dictionary of Film'', comments:{{cquote|From 1952 to 1991, he made eight films—and in only one of them, I suggest —''Lawrence''—is the spectacle sufficient to mask the hollow rhetoric of the scripts. But Lean before 1952 made eight films in ten years that are lively, stirring, and an inspiration—they make you want to go out and make movies, they are so in love with the screen's power and the combustion in editing."<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|title=The New Biographical Dictionary of Film|url=https://archive.org/details/newbiographicald00thom|url-access=registration|publisher=Little, Brown & Alfred A. Knopf|location=London & New York|year=2002|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newbiographicald00thom/page/503 503–4]|isbn=9780375411281}}</ref>}} ''[[The New York Times]]'' film critic [[Bosley Crowther]] dismissed ''Lawrence of Arabia'' as "a huge, thundering camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly as it rolls on into its third hour and gets involved with sullen disillusion and political deceit".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies|title=Movie Reviews|date=20 February 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=25 February 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=8 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008020331/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/8561/Cast-a-Giant-Shadow/overview|url-status=live}}</ref> Writing in ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[Andrew Sarris]] remarked that ''Lawrence'' was "simply another expensive mirage, dull, overlong, and coldly impersonal&nbsp;... on the whole I find it hatefully calculating and condescending".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://greencardamom.github.io/BooksAndWriters/telawren.htm|title=T.E. Lawrence|website=greencardamom.github.io|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=4 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704004926/https://greencardamom.github.io/BooksAndWriters/telawren.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>