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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste but passionate affair. Read more

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  O Romance, Romance, Wherefore Art Thou Romance?

  • 14 Feb 2008

  We polled over 1,000 of you to find out the most romantic movie of all time and asked Neuropsychologist Dr. David Lewis of Mind Laboratories analysed the results to determine the movie most likely to bring on that "loving" feeling. Romeo & Juliet, Baz Luhrman's1996 adaptation of the Shakespearian tragedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio, produced the biggest neurological and physiological responses amongst film fans. Nearly one in five (19 per cent) experienced increased heart rate, raised blood... Read more

  

  MPs pick love over war

  • 12 Feb 2004

  Forget the Oscars and box office figures, the people that run the country have decided on their favourite film. The House of Commons has voted Dr Zhivago its top flick, with 14 per cent of the vote - if representative this would mean almost a hundred MPs think David Lean's epic is better than any other film Lawrence of Arabia, also directed by Mr Lean, came in second with a tenth of the vote. The Cambridge University sporting tale Chariots of Fire - produced by Labour peer Lord Puttnam - was in Read more

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