One of my all-time favorite films, the grandeur of the Hollywood Cinema of the 50s and 60s is on full display. Lawrence of Arabia is spellbinding; it is a true masterpiece of cinema and artwork.
Lawrence of Arabia
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- United Kingdom
- 1962
- · 217m
Director
David Lean
Cast
Peter O'Toole,
Alec Guinness,
Anthony Quinn,
Jack Hawkins,
Omar Sharif,
José Ferrer
Genre
Adventure,
Drama,
History,
War
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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TV Guide Magazine
David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T.E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in battle against the Ottoman Turks during WWI.
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LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen
The movie manages both senses of scale—the intimate and the expansive—with equal majesty, merging them into something moving, mesmerizing, and poetic, in a way only Lean movies could really manage.
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Boston Globe
Lawrence is back on the big screen, and it simply demands to be seen. Yes, again.
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New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
Released in 1962, it was pretty clearly the most intelligent spectacular within living memory. On its 40th anniversary, it's even better.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Riveting from beginning to end, featuring stellar performances, amazing cinematography, and a story without a trace of fat, the film does everything an epic is supposed to do - and more.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
It's perhaps only because it can't be seen in its full glory on television that "Lawrence" isn't ranked more highly on some recent all-time "best film" lists. But it belongs near the very top. It's an astonishing, unrepeatable epic.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
What a bold, mad act of genius it was, to make Lawrence of Arabia, or even think that it could be made.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
In short, they don't make 'em like this one anymore. Viewing it is like taking a time machine to a movie age that was more naive than our own in some ways, more sophisticated and ambitious in others.
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Boston Globe by Janice Page
Lawrence is back on the big screen, and it simply demands to be seen. Yes, again.
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TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T.E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in battle against the Ottoman Turks during WWI.
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