"We want... two LARGE glasses of lemonade!"

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2000)

There is actually a great deal of humor in this film, and great moments of Truth. It is one of those few films that is an Absolute Classic. Long as it might be, there's no fat here, and and is easily in league with the other giants of cinema; Seven Samurai, The Godfather, etc.
I prefer this film over Dr. Zhivago, that type of melodrama is absent from this film as we watch Lawrence unfold. There's a lot of quotable material in this movie too, Auda Abu Tayi's character has many great moments and the screenplay by Robert Bolt is one that can be studied for years to come, while remaining very accessible.
There's really just too much to go into here in these little columns, we got armies and armies, train wrecks, obsession, imperfection, a ton of Arabs with camels, even a couple strafing biplanes! Not to mention Alec Guiness, and in essence a "Birth of a Nation" story.
This is a film along the likes of classic literature: having this volume of film on your shelves is akin to Hemingway, Tolstoy, Dickens, or, you know, whatever you might like to see in a big, dusty, hardbound book on the shelf in some spooky library.