Lord of the rings forty years before its time

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2004)

David lean had a lot to live up to after making Kwai, a candidate for best film of all time, and does he not disappoint,instead he creates one of the finest movies in motion picture history.
not wanting to give much away about the story, i'll say this. Lawrence is a film of such unimaginable beauty, that one really has to see it several times before they can fully appreciate it. The first time will be simply too much and only after a while will they begin to realize just what a great film it its. Suddenly every other film just pales into insignificance
Spielberg cites it as one of his favourite films of all time, and you can easily see why. The life of TE Lawrence is bought to us in such a mind blowingly spectacular way that at first viewing, the modern viewer ~( post star wars ) might think " humph, i've seen all this before" and to be honest ,they have a point.
But this is where it all began, all those epic scenes that are the bread and butter of modern FX ~Blockbusrters, owe almost everything to this movie. There are scenes in this movie that wouldn't look out of place in Lord of the Rings.
This is before we even get to the wonderful performances of its principle cast. the sweeping score and the never equaled cinematography
Lawrence of Arabia is the greatest piece of cinema ever. It borrows some structural elements from Kane and perfects the art of the biographical film