Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

We, at the David Lean Cinema, have been eagerly awaiting this documentary about our name-sake since it was screened at Cannes. We now have the opportunity to screen it, together with a Q&A with the film’s creator. This documentary takes us from Lean’s strict childhood in Croydon, with a father who branded him “a dud”, through his formative years learning the ropes at British Gaumont, to his discovery by Noel Coward and his illustrious career directing some of the film masterpieces of the second half of the 20^th Century. Well-chosen clips, rare archive footage and insight from the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Wes Anderson and Paul Greengrass cast a revealing light on a man whose public image masked a private life marked by marital catastrophe and raging self-doubt.