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‘A Passage to India' 40th anniversary: Remembering David Lean's two-time Oscar-winning drama

The devastating reviews for his sweeping 1970 Irish romantic drama "Ryan's Daughter" caused Oscar-winning filmmaker David Lean to lose his creative mojo. "The notices were vitriolic," he confessed to ...
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Friday essay: A man out of time – E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India at 100 and the legacies of colonialism

I was aware of David Lean’s cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India (1984) before I encountered E.M. Forster’s original novel, which celebrated its centenary in 2024. While the film was being shot ...