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Guess what! Just learned that my local AMC is screening Lawrence of Arabia tonight for their Wednesday Classics program. I've only seen it in piecemeal on tiny screens. Looking forward to watching the whole thing in one sitting in all of its... *looks up* 3h and 48m runtime glory.
They better fucking have an intermission.
Is it in 70mm?
Ehh, probably not? I remember they made a big to-do about showing Dunkirk in 70mm when it came out and the website doesn't mention anything like that. I think LoA was remastered in 4K a few years ago? Hopefully they're at least showing that version.
I saw Lawrence of Arabia in a theater many years ago. TV doesn't do it justice. In particular, the desert panoramas demand a big screen,
4k is equivalent to 35mm, more or less. (But it's not an exact comparison since digital prints don't wear out like film, so if you're going to show the movie more than once, the digital print will look better.)
I saw Lawrence of Arabia when it was new, in a theater. It turned up on the PBS weekly classic movie ... I'd forgotten how good it was, how magnificent the panoramas were ... and how good Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif looked (maybe I can appreciate them more now that I'm older).
I've seen Lawrence of Arabia in 70 MM at a revival house with a newly struck print.
Pretty freakin' amazing.
Of all the movies I've seen, it is easily the one that most needs to be seen on a big screen.
Scale is so important to the whole production.
I saw LoA many years ago, although on the small screen. The cinematography is beautiful and O'Toole is lovely, but I recall noticing that there isn't a single female character in the entire movie. I was astonished at how they'd neatly excised half the human race from the story.
Lawrence of Arabia was splendid. The print looked excellent -- def. a remastered version, not sure if 35mm or 70mm. Although, gotta say total word to Consuela's point -- the only female presence in the film? A couple of dead women with knives sticking out of their bodies after the massacre by the Turkish on the way to Damascus. I know it's a war film by and large, but yeesh. There was also Alec Guiness in brown-face as Prince Faisal, but he was so fantastic in the role, I was like, "UGH, fine."
The vista was breathtaking, as were Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, whose relationship gives Ben Hur/Messala a run for the money for the slashiest relationship in all of classic Hollywood cinema. Holy molly. It was a classy night out at the movies with a lot of older audience, so I refrained from yelling out "JUST KISS ALREADY!!"
There *was* a 15 min intermission, thank Jeebus. It's a leisurely paced film but gripping throughout. Goodness, those desert scenes. AMAZING.
Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, whose relationship gives Ben Hur/Messala a run for the money for the slashiest relationship in all of classic Hollywood cinema. Holy molly. It was a classy night out at the movies with a lot of older audience, so I refrained from yelling out "JUST KISS ALREADY!!"
I haven't seen LoA or Ben Hur (I know, I know), but when Casablanca was shown in a local theatre a few years back, I hadn't seen it since maybe high school, and had never seen it on the big screen, so off I went, and I really didn't remember the low-key slashy vibe between Rick and Renault, but there it was, big as life. (Tim agreed, and unlike me, he doesn't see slashy vibes everywhere, so I felt a little vindicated there.)