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.)

I have my suspicions that Lawrence was not particularly interested in women, and the Arabian culture he was involved with wouldn't have had many women visible. If it isn't logical for the setting that women would be involved, I prefer we get left out then shoe-horned in, generally as a generic romantic interest. See Arnold protesting that his character was not going to take the time to romance the female prisoner when there was an alien actively hunting them.

For all that the Doom movie was thirty types of ridiculous, I was delighted that the woman scientist was our hero's sister instead of a love interest. Instant relationship, instant history, instant relevance. And when one of the soldiers hinted he might hit on her since the hero wasn't going to, he just got a look of "Could you be more skeevy?" from his buddy.

I have bought so much Captain Marvel stuff for ltc. It's a sickness at this point.

So in the latest ad - some scenes black widow with red hair, some with blond. We think flashbacks? time travel?

I think it's passage of time, maybe. She goes from blonde to blonde roots to red. I think?