My favorite movie of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2006)

Simply the most lavish panorama a movie screen (of any technological advancement) can contain. The English and the Arab: Britisher and Beduin, stripped to their underpinnings, bereft of uniform and robes, the relentless Mid-East sun parching their flesh, bleaching their bones, scorching their brains. Its pace is scalding, mercilessly carrying you across the dessert sands, allying you now with Dryden's geo-political wizardry, then with Feisal's existential Zeitgeist. In the middle, but no middle-man, is Lawrence, Laurennz, as the Arabs drawl it out, becoming the astrolabe and the rudder of the burgeoning Arab movement, at once, both Manichean and masochist, bedazzling and hidden.