{"id":1821,"date":"2021-12-17T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:49:16","slug":"75th-anniversary-of-david-leans-great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/12\/17\/75th-anniversary-of-david-leans-great-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"75th anniversary of David Lean\u2019s \u2018Great Expectations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/11\/pocket.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/11\/pocket.jpg 318w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/11\/pocket-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 85vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarded as one of David Lean\u2019s greatest films, \u2018Great Expectations\u2019, starring John Mills (as Pip), Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons and others, was released on 26 December 1946. On the BFI\u2019s list of 100 top films (1999), it reached 5<sup>th<\/sup> place. It was the first of two films Lean directed based of Dickens&#8217; novels \u2013 the other being Oliver Twist (1948).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/11\/aversham.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1824\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep an eye out for it as it is usually shown over the festive season and enjoy the tales of orphan Phillip (Pip) Pirrip, convict Abel Magwitch, Pip\u2019s friend Herbert Pocket, eccentric Miss Haversham and her niece, the beautiful but cruel Estella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarded as one of David Lean\u2019s greatest films, \u2018Great Expectations\u2019, starring John Mills (as Pip), Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Jean Simmons and others, was released on 26 December 1946. On the BFI\u2019s list of 100 top films (1999), it reached 5th place. It was the first of two films Lean directed based of Dickens&#8217; novels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/12\/17\/75th-anniversary-of-david-leans-great-expectations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;75th anniversary of David Lean\u2019s \u2018Great Expectations\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}