Prejudice, Atonement) has cited Lean's works, particularly Doctor Zhivago, as an important influence on his work, as has director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises). The critical verdict was not unanimous, however. For example, David Thomson, writing about Lean in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film, comments: 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". Writing in The Village Voice, Andrew Sarris remarked that Lawrence was "simply another expensive mirage, dull, overlong, and coldly impersonal ... on the whole I find it hatefully calculating and condescending". Filmography Award and nominations Notes References Works cited General references Alain Silver and James Ursini, David Lean and his Films, Silman-James, 1992. Silverman, Stephen M., David Lean, Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Santas, Constantine, The Epics Films of David Lean, Scarecrow Press, 2011 Turner, Adrian The Making of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (Dragon's World, Limpsfield UK, 1994) Turner, Adrian Robert Bolt: Scenes from two lives (Hutchinson, London 1998) Williams, Melanie, David Lean, (Manchester University Press, 2014) Morris, L. Robert and Lawrence Raskin, Lawrence of Arabia: the 30th Anniversary Pictorial History, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1992 Further reading Unsigned obituary of Lean. Lane's appreciation of Lean on his centennial Silver's essay on Lean's career compiled as part of the Senses of Cinema Great Directors series. Thomson's appreciation of Lean on the occasion of his centennial. External links David Lean Archive on the BAFTA website Biography at British Film Institute Mean Lean Filmmaking Machine, by Armond White, New York Press 3 September 2008 Honours from the Queen David Lean Foundation. Charity which makes grants to restore Lean's films, and to film studies students. Literature on David Lean 1908 births 1991 deaths BAFTA fellows Best Directing Academy Award winners Best Director Golden Globe winners British film directors British film editors British film producers British Quakers Burials at Putney Vale Cemetery Deaths from cancer in England Commanders of the Order of the British Empire David di Donatello winners Deaths from esophageal cancer Knights Bachelor People from Croydon People educated at Leighton Park School People from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Directors Guild of America Award winners Directors of Palme d'Or winners Directors of Golden Bear winners AFI Life Achievement Award recipients English-language film directors 20th-century