Lawrence Of Arabia

Image Not Available Director: David Lean Dvd Release: 8th December, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Lawrence of Arabia is an Academy Award -winning film based loosely on the life of T E Lawrence, starring Peter OToole as the title character, directed by David Lean & produced by Sam Spiegel.. The score by Maurice Jarre & the on-location cinematography are especially acclaimed. Shooting began on May 15, 1961 & ended on October 20, 1962. Part of the desert scenes were shot on Almerķa, Spain. The film premiered in London on December 10, 1962 & was released in the USA on December 16, 1962. The film was nominated for ten & awarded seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1962. It was named the number five movie of all time by the American Film Institute. The film has been deemed culturally significant by the Library of Congress & selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 2004 the magazine Total Film named it the 8th greatest British film of all time. Despite its 216 minute length, the film includes no women in speaking roles. Arab nomad culture at the time of World War I required women to avoid speaking to anyone except their close relatives.

Sir David Lean was a British film director, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia. He was born in Croydon, Surrey & started at the bottom, as a clapperboard assistant. By 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including Gaumont Pictures & Movietone. His career in mainstream films began Escape Me Never & he went on to edit Gabriel Pascals Pygmalion & Major Barbara & Powell & Pressburgers Forty-Ninth Parallel & One of our Aircraft is Missing. His first work as a director was in partnership with Noel Coward on In Which We Serve. He came into his own with Brief Encounter & directed several films based on classic novels, such as Great Expectations. The Sound Barrier is a display of British stiff upper lip, while Hobsons Choice, which Lean also produced, is a stylish comic update of King Lear set in Victorian Manchester. With the advent of colour, Lean became well-known as the director of blockbusters such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he won an Academy Award, followed by another for Lawrence of Arabia. Posters Of Doctor Zhivago

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