The Best Film Of All Time!

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2002)

Lawrence of Arabia has so many excellent things to reccommend it that it is hard to know where to begin.
Peter O"Toole takes this role and makes it definitive. He guides the tone of the film, and Omar Sharif(never better in any film) picks up that tone, making the relationship between them so universal and moving, as one recalls the opening and lingers over the close of the film. Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn seem born to the parts they play, and they are far from Arab.
The direction by David Lean is beyond compare for this genre of film.
The score by Maurice Jarre has haunted the world for 40 years, and the photography is spell binding.
I have seen this film so many times in the theatre on the wide curved screen, and can never tire of its artistry on all levels.