Sun 22 Apr 2007
As a 16-year-old film scholar (if I can be classified so), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA was the one movie that opened me up to the world of cinema. It was the first film that showed me what a group of people can do with a camera and some ambition. From the surreal shots of the desolate (or “sterile” as Lawrence would say) desert plains to the fervent script written by Robert Bolt to David Lean’s seminal screen direction and to, of course, the phenomenal acting, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA will forever be remebered as the premiere film epic.
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April 24th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Lawrence is a masterpiece to be sure. It belongs in the top ten, I believe that. But No. 1?
June 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Lawrence clearly belongs on any best-of list. Still, no one has clearly explained to me the AFI criteria. The Top 100 movies of all time? The Top American feature films? The Top English-language films?
Clearly the list has no room for foreign classics, leaving out everything from Battleship Potemkin to La Dolce Vita, from Napoleon to Metropolis, from Children of Paradise to Grand Illusion.
But how do British films like Lawrence (British director, stars and story) and The Third Man (regrettably now dropped from the 100) qualify has Hollywood creations? Is it a question of U.S. studio financing?
Someone help me here.